BEAUTY OF THE HARBOUR
A strong protest is made by "Port Nicholson, the Beautiful," against a sentence in a paragraph in "The Post"— "For once the harbour was beautiful." "Could it be a printer's error or a mistake in a reporter's notes? I reread'the paragraph, hoping the mistake was mine. But no; the cold printed words were there. That this should have been published in the columns of the oldest daily paper here is beyond understanding. Has the writer not seen the harbour on a grey day, when the water, without a ripple, mirrors the unchanging hills so faithfully? Has lie not seen it .when the waves, lashed ,by\ a strong north wind, rush irp Evans Bay and spend.themselves against the rocks? Has he not seen it on a moonlight night, •when the moon, paying homage to the beauties of earth, proudly views her -shadow in the still deep'water of the bay? Has he not seen it on a black winter's night, when the thousands of earthly stars shining from houses and streets are portrayed not only once, but three or four times? And yet we read—'For once the harbour was beautiful.'."
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 142, 13 December 1933, Page 8
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192BEAUTY OF THE HARBOUR Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 142, 13 December 1933, Page 8
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