THOMAS BRUNNER'S JOURNEY
Sir,-The statement made by "Sundowner" (Listener, February 13) was: "Brunner was 550 days going and coming from Nelson to Cascade Point." My letter of March 6 said, "It looks as if "Sundowner" may be in error in giving 550 days as the time taken on the trip from Nelson to West Coast and return." Brunner left Nelson on December 3, 1846, and got back to Fraser’s Hut on June 15, 1848, which runs into 560 days, but I do not know the actual date of his return to Nelson City. The quotation from Brunner’s diary was (as given on March 6): "It is a period of nearly 560 days from the time I wished Fraser goodbye on the banks of the Rotoiti River, and my seeing him at his home this evening." I have not access to Brunner’s actual journal, but the quotation is from an article by P. J. O’Regan. The Greymouth Evening Star of February 25, 1928, gives the same figure from Brunner’s diary, viz., 560 days. As for the statement of "Sundowner," there is an error in mentioning Cascade Point, which Brunner never reached. He turned north again near Tititira Head, about 50 miles north of Cascade Point.
CANTNEL
(Gisborne).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 716, 2 April 1953, Page 5
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206THOMAS BRUNNER'S JOURNEY New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 716, 2 April 1953, Page 5
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