OUR NATIONAL CHARACTER
Sir,-May I join with Audrey Cumming in her condemnation of A. R. D. Fairburn’s derogatory statement about our pioneers? However, I feet quite sure that had Mr. Fairburn been old enough to converse intelligibly with his grandfather (and my father), the late Edwin Fairburn, C.E;. (born Paihia 1827); or had met his great-aunt (and my aunt), the late Elizabeth Colenso; he might have found out that his forbears were far from being a helpless fot.
ARTHUR
FAIRBURN
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 24, Issue 621, 25 May 1951, Page 5
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81OUR NATIONAL CHARACTER New Zealand Listener, Volume 24, Issue 621, 25 May 1951, Page 5
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