THE GREAT BARRIER.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 230, 28 September 1922, Page 10

THE GREAT BARRIER.

n> the KCUter., Sir.—r 1 w>.v with Interest tlio article in Tiiefxlay's "Sta.r." referring to thr Munder "f the ediitor of tlio •Children's Newspaper," who depicts the] (irrai Harrier as a coral reof. also the: sufice.stiiiii that "Great Barrier will I'" much unnoj-ed thereby." 7 May I just , -ugliest that the residents of that fasrina little isle art , hardened tn uewspapi r blunders lone since, spoiiiji thai many residents of New Zenlond roiicliuled. diirinpr the timp of the wreck, flint the- (ireat Barrier was uninhabited r,r practically so. for local newspaper reports made the Katoa'e men responsible lur the rescue. As a matter of fact ; ilip men from the Katoa were outnum- \ liere.l, four to one. b} - sturdy yollnpr settlers, without whom the rescue, would have been impossible. When the "meduls were handed out" the Katoa's handful I of mm had a "scoop ,- of credit, while this unobtrtisive crowd of settlers quietly "kept the even tenor of their way," , Strange then it would seem that these settlers, undisturbed by such misrepre- j mentation of facts, should suddenly become "much annoyed" when a stranger. ' thousands of miles away, ignorantly de- 1 posits their sunny little island off the coast of Atistralia. —T am. etc.. ONE WHO WAS THERE.