Speaking at the Historical Association meeting in Wellington the other evening, Dr G. H. Scholefield said that he sometimes wondered whether the time devoted by students to ascertaining remote facts about the past was worth while. Some facts might be interesting or curious, but were really of no historical value. He fully expected that in the difficulty of finding subjects for these, some students would be reduced to trying to prove from the- records how many of the Scottish ernigrants in the Bengal Merchant or some other ship had red hair or freckles.
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Southland Times, Issue 22013, 12 May 1933, Page 8
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