More Slipshod History
Sir,—As a Waikato visitor to Wellington I attended the service at Petone beach held to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the service conducted by the Rev. James Buller on board the Aurora on Sunday, January 26, 1840. This date was correctly printed on the souvenir programme but is carelessly and wrongly given as January 27 in two places in an allegedly historical sketch embodied in the souvenir. Such blunders are not to be excused when careful historians have already given exact dates and correct details in publications that are easily accessible. —-I am, etc., W. PATON PRICE. Wellington, January 28.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 109, 1 February 1940, Page 11
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104More Slipshod History Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 109, 1 February 1940, Page 11
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