VALUABLE RECORDS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 277, 23 November 1927, Page 6

VALUABLE RECORDS.

- WAIPU AND ALBERTLAHD. ~ : •- (To the Editor.) } I was delighted to learn from the Btww : columns in last Saturday's "Star" that it is proposed to republish in bookiS? with additions, Dr. Gordon MacDonald'® 42!! of Waipu." I am not a Scot, nor Presbyterian, neither have I ever seen W but I found the story of the Waipu - as told by Dr. Mac Donald. one of absorbs! interest from to end, whiU a? literary merits showed that Xnr Zealand s'-/*' at the present time a not unworthv to lan McLaren and S. R. book recalls what has already been for Albertlaud. From the book however, many episodes were onS2 which should have found a place in the eeemZ Permit me to mention a few. At , two of the orignal settlers went outm*n32" for gold and struck what they bdie*edtotJ an enormously rich reef. Their My-pli ..T* —in their dreams—knew no bounds, > contemplated erecting and endowing philanthropic institutions in Auckland. with glittering samples oi the praamiZtai they proceeded to Auckland and their treasure to an expert. The nert2* they were on their way home, silent and 2**s not even troubling to take their specimens tSM with them. If I recollect tightly, the mournful story was published in Night," one of the literary ventures rfttTS" "Daily Southern Cross." Then at Port Ann? * I think in December, ISS4, there 'Ht rim * that extraordinary camp meeting two American evangelists named Thoma* >2 Phelps, duly reported in the "Stat". -S ' throughout the Dominion, when fanSS " respected people, clad in almost Edenic jmt saw things did things of the mo* stub ling nature. These matters and (nfe others Mr. Henry Hook has fnilafl t n in his records. Perhaps, in some futmt effiS.' of his book, he may add ™'

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