A LETTER FROM HOLLAND
WELLINGTON, June 13. Mr Donne has received a letter from a young man in Holland, who writes: — " Safely the books j-ou promised me have reached me. Much views of your town are to be seen in one of them, and very interesting and beautiful are they. Every Sunday I go to my father's house in Plantagewg to see him and my stepmother, and I have promieed that I shall take the beautiful views of New Zealand and show them. I always have to translate into Dutch what you tell me of the pictures, and ray father and friends are much interested in what they ha'.e to say of the land discovered by our countryman Jan Abel Tasman so long ago. It will please my family highly to see any more views you can send of your so lovely country.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2779, 19 June 1907, Page 39
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143A LETTER FROM HOLLAND Otago Witness, Issue 2779, 19 June 1907, Page 39
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