PERSONAL HISTORIES
EARLY NEW ZEALAND FAMILIES, by Douglas Cresswell; The Pegasus Press. ‘ ‘| HIS is a revised edition of the stories originally prepared for broadcasting. Full of lively anecdote, they provide entertaining reading, but are too sketchy to support the claim that "the history of early New Zealand is but the total cf all such personal histories." One would like to see, Mr. Cresswell apply his gifts to a detailed study of a single family which. is still farming the land it took up on first settlement. Such a_ study would be a real contribution to our history. But more care is required with the printed word than with the "spoken style," and such phrases as "Maori hieroglyphics" (in the Otaki Church) and "a most historic paintine" need
further consideration. ©
L.J.
W.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 714, 20 March 1953, Page 14
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131PERSONAL HISTORIES New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 714, 20 March 1953, Page 14
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