EXPLORING NEW ZEALAND
Sir-If Mr. John Pascoe is right in maintaining that Brunner and party were at Farewell on March 26, 1846, then was the late Hon. P. J. O’Regan wrong when he wrote, "The two explorers (Brunner and Heaphy) started from Nelson, again under the guidance of Kehu, on March 17, 1846, intending to walk along the coast to Arahura. Having crossed to Golden Bay in a small vessel, they set out from Aorere on March. 23 for West Whanganui?" And was A. J. Harrop wrong when he wrote, "Messrs, Heaphy ard Brunner, two of the Company’s surveyors, visited the West Coast in 1845 (should be 1846?) and travelled along it on foot from West Wanganui, near Cape Farewell, to the Grey River?" Would Mr. Pascoe divulge the source of his information, please? The Maori name of the lake would be Rotoroa, despite the example of the Survey Department. If the name is to be Anglicised, why not ‘call it Long Lake? As to Brunner’s view from the top of the Victoria Range, Mr. O’Regan commented as follows: "It would be difficult
to excel the accuracy with which Brunner has described the. splendid panorama which lay round him as he stoodan the highest summit of the .Victoria Range. Nevertheless, there is one’‘error, He never saw the plains of the éastern coast, for he could not, even from the eminence on which he‘ stood, look over the Southern Alps." :
CANTNEL
(Gisborne),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 727, 19 June 1953, Page 5
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241EXPLORING NEW ZEALAND New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 727, 19 June 1953, Page 5
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