“Waitohi Residents Were Hurt By Novel”
He would not concede that Waitohi residents were not hurt by “Moonshine,” Mr Gordon Ogilvie, the writer of an article “ ‘Moonshine’ and Waitohi” which appeared in “The Press” on September 21. said in reply to Mrs L. K. Paine, the elder daughter of the author of “Moonshine," Helen Wilson. Several families mentioned unfavourably by name were much angered by the book, said Mr Ogilvie. Mrs Wilson’s apology to the Colls (a Waitohi family) was by letter. Mr Ogilvie said that at no time did he identify Helen Wilson with the fictitious “Robin Marchant,” whose adventures were of a quite different sort.
“I did not at any stage deny that the Waitohi settlement
was isolated; I merely argued that it was not ‘primitive’" said Mr Ogilvie. “While Mrs Paine claims that her mother remembered her Waitohi interlude without bitterness and as an ‘amusing adventure,’ Mrs Wilson’s writings continue to leave a quite different impression. “The purpose of the article was to inquire, as impartially as possible, why,” said Mr Ogilvie.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31802, 5 October 1968, Page 21
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