AUCKLAND NOTEBOOK
Sir,-Thanks be that the uninteresting meanderings of your Auckland Notebook have ended. Who cares what those peculiar northerners, as distinct from New Zealanders, wear or eat? But "G.leF. Y." surpassed himself in criti-
cising the summer climate of Christchurch, If he is a renegade native of the Canterbury city, he must have forfotten that in summer Christchurch can be the hottest city in New Zealand for days on end-not just the one day in 30 that he speaks of-when the girls can discard tweeds for summer garb. As for strange sartorial effects, I can recall a purple-haired female wandering down Queen Street, Auckland, on one showery summer day, dressed in bright blue with green hat and wearing pink shoes-and she was so typical of the fantastic styles adopted up there to attract attention, that not a head-except perhaps my own-turned to watch her pass by. But then, where else but Auckland would you see so many sloppy men in creased pants acting as "cantilever" verandah posts; or women offending taste by wearing heavy jewellery with sports clothes and swim suits? As for climate -where else would you find nine months of rain and three of steam? It ill behoves anybody from that overrated city of mudflats and race meetings casting aspersions at any climate. But then, with the one eye of a Cyclops, what further horizon can any Aucklander see than that between Rangitoto and Western Springs?
CLOSED NOTEBOOK
(Wellington)
Sir,-Two little words appeared before G.leF.Y.’s initials in your last issue. Does this really mean "the end" of this delightful series of articles? Oh, no! Please have pity on one exiled from the fair city of Auckland-and one who so looks forward to Auckland Notebook! But if G.leF. Y. has returned to his "native Christchurch," then it only remains for me to thank him for taking me with him around my beloved Auckland, meeting its wonderful people (aliens) and dining at those wonderful restaurants-plus-atmosphere that I know so well. Thank you for bringing a breath of life to me-but G.leF. Y. has left me, with Ezra Pound, . » homesick after mine own kind, I aut there are folk about me, ‘friendly But I p homesick after mine own kind.
M.
M.
(Invercargill).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 915, 22 February 1957, Page 5
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373AUCKLAND NOTEBOOK New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 915, 22 February 1957, Page 5
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