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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4331, 15 April 1901, Page 7

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' HARBOUR INCONVENIENCES. Now Zealander”. writes.: —I noticed in the annual ■ report-of the Harbour Board that they here, taking credit, for tho convenient -appliances, etc., they have for' handling cargo. No doubt the harbour is well equipped; hut in tiro matters They,.. are.-far, boMiult bVeh - other New Ze d.uid poiV, namely, thoMnethocl of loading. froKon. and, the poor’ way (he wharves are lighted,. ; ■ Jiony-BicK mir,” ‘ . " ,;Wr.K. D. McLeod / wril*» i —'While 1 admit that. - the .>aadidd "“Revelations”- 1 ' reads as if written by a master handfull of that vsb'seldom met ’with in.'the; columns of the .average uoirspaper, yalt I cannot help expressing ray regret at his ignorance of the primitive ■ language, which was spoken in Eden, in his, description of the popular Chairman ‘as “Roderick Dim.” The resourceful “Rory” may be described as quite the reverse.—-not Roderick 'Dim, but "Roderick Bane,” or. niore properly still, “Roderick Ruadh.” Roderick Dhu-;may character ■ ,accordihg-, tiv' Scott; butuyour excel! ent correspOiidciiii t ; 1 must ! lab 6 deprive us of our own only “Rory,” by colouring him black' instead of what Dame Nature lias sq otherwise, nerfectjed. ,‘'Dhu„” T diuay add;,;;isNblUc’kj “Bane,” fair; arid “ruadh;” red.',