THE DESCRIPTIVE ATLAS
Sir,-l find your article on the New Zealand Atlas, as published on March 19, seriously disquieting, although I have never had any personal association with the project. 1. It is clear beneath your courteous phrases, that the mdjor enterprise launched by Sir Joseph Heenan has been abandoned in favour of a minor project which can only take slight cognisance of the vast amount of research already carried out, and carries no suggestion of completing the fundamental research still required. 2. This revolution has been carried out under the auspices of a committee containing no single representative of the University (whose status in historical and geographical studies stands high) or of the devoted band who worked intensively on the original project. 3. There is no suggestion that any of those previously engaged on. the work has been consulted about the new plans, or that their skill and knowledge will be called upon. None of them has been appointed to the new committee, and according to your report those commissioned to do the new work do not appear to have had any special training or achievement in this particular field. P One is driven to the conclusion that a fine and well-conceived enterprise, which would have produced a work ranking high among. the world’s scholarly productions has been destroyed without any step having been taken to consult New Zealand’s own experts in this’ particular field. The result is a waste of knowledge and of skilled manpower which I cannot beliéve is in the public interest.
F. L. W.
WOOD
Professor of History,
Victoria University College.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 767, 2 April 1954, Page 5
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266THE DESCRIPTIVE ATLAS New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 767, 2 April 1954, Page 5
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