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Sir, —In the grey hours of a winter morning two New Zealanders stood on a steamer's slippery deck gazing toward the coastline—the dark New Zealand fine, with its rocky islets and the blue ranges beyond, their peaks newly gilded by the first rays of the sun. One traveller was returning from the sunny Islands, the other came with »happy memories gathered in every continent of the world. For a while they were sftent; then the first spoke. "Home *gain !" he said. His companion replied, "Yes, and for me there's not anothei* home in all the world. . . Poor ignorant ones, that they should dare think this humble New Zealand, this land of their birth, the only place worthy to call their Home! lI.F.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21326, 29 October 1932, Page 12
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