Earlier Opos
HE Pocock family has given us some good listening of late: son, with his Golubchik and his Joan of Arc; father, with his Women’s Session talk, first heard from 3YA, on some ancient forerunners of Opo. His stories from Pliny, elder and. younger, though the younger had pinched his story from the elder, sounded like most of those fantastic old natural history legends at which we smile with the assurance of superior knowledge; but they also sounded re-
nosed.
markably like the Opo story, which may give us pause. There was one notable difference, however. When a dolphin made friends with the boys of Hippo (now Bizerta, west of the Bay of Tunis, or the Bey of Tunis-the radio makes such words regrettably ambiguous), so many Government officials flocked to see it that the townspeople killed it to save the expense of putting them up. Opononi seemed less worried by their influx of sight-seers. There, perhaps, even Cabinet Ministers paid their way. I hope some resident of Hokianga heard Professor Pocock’s appeal to find out from the next friendly dolphin whether they really do prefer to be called "Simo," meaning snub-
R.D.
McE.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 874, 4 May 1956, Page 21
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