NED KELLY
»Sir;-You published a review recently of Ned Kelly, Australian Son, by Max Brown, in which it was stated that Ned Kelly’s father had been transported to Van Diemen’s Land, and réceived hard treatment there. None of the Kelly family ever set foot in Tasmania or Van Diemen’s Land as it was formerly called. The father was transported to New South Wales and when his *sentence expired he moved to a farm close fo the Victorian border. Mrs. Kelly was left a widow with eight children, but that was considered a small family then and pioneers made a point of helping in such a case. But Ned Kelly preferred to steal, acquifed bullet-proof armour and a gang to suit. Then he got to work. Many a young fellow starting out for Melbourne with his gold disappeared. The little wooden country banks held the cash of hard-working settlers who broke in the bush-the best type of pioneers. No priest went to administer the last rites of his church, the place blazed, and there was nothing but ashes left. As for the death mask of his face being like a benign Church of England priest, Kelly was no more like that than Bryan O’Brien is like Captain Hobson.
MIDFOLK
(Auckland),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 514, 29 April 1949, Page 5
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209NED KELLY New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 514, 29 April 1949, Page 5
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