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The New Zealand Medal, 1845–66. This medal was instituted in 1869 and was made retrospective to the First Maori War of 1845–47. The reverse of the medal bears the year or years during which the recipients served in New Zealand. As the records of the Imperial Army troops who served in the war of 1845–47 were incomplete, undated medals were awarded to them, but the Royal Navy received dated medals. The following 28 date combinations were awarded:
1845–46, 1845–47, 1846, 1846–47, 1847, 1860 1860–61, 1860–63, 1860–64, 1860–65, 1860–66, 1861, 1861–63, 1861–64, 1861–65, 1861–66, 1862–63, 1863, 1863–64, 1863–65, 1863–66, 1864, 1864–65, 1864–66, 1865, 1865–66, 1866, and undated medals.
There were two distinct issues of the New Zealand Medal for the Second Maori War, one by the Imperial Government to the Royal Navy, the Imperial Army, and New Zealand troops who served with the British Army; and the other was made by the New Zealand Government to locally raised forces who served independently of the Imperial troops. The former issue was made to all who served in any capacity, irrespective of whether they were engaged in actual combat or not, while the latter issue was made only to those who came under enemy fire. The Imperial issue to New Zealand troops was dated 1861–66, but the New Zealand Government issue was of the undated variety. No campaign or battle clasps were awarded for this medal, but many men had special clasps which they wore unofficially. All issues to New Zealand troops were recorded in the New Zealand Gazette from 31 May 1871 and continued for many years as claims were received and checked. The Master Medal Roll is deposited with National Archives.
New Zealand service personnel have been awarded campaign medals for each of the campaigns in which they have taken part.
(1808–88).
Regular soldier.
A new biography of Cameron, Duncan Alexander appears in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on this site.
The son of Sir J. Cameron, Duncan Alexander Cameron was born on 19 December 1808, entered the Army in 1825, and obtained his first commission in the 42nd Highland Regiment (Black Watch), in which he served until the Crimean War (lieutenant, 1826; colonel, 1854). At the Crimea, Cameron was given the local rank of major-general. He commanded the 42nd Regiment at the Alma and the Highland Brigade at Balaclava, and was present at Kertch and the fall of Sebastopol. In 1860 he was promoted major-general and given the command in Scotland.
Cameron succeeded General Pratt as commander in New Zealand in April 1861. At this stage the troops were employed on military roads between Auckland and the Waikato. When the colonial Government began hostilities over the Tata-raimaka Block, Cameron advanced with a mixed force that included both the 57th and 70th Regiments, towards Katikara which fell on 4 June 1863. From winter quarters at Pokeno, Cameron began the subjugation of the Waikato on 12 July 1863 by ordering troops across the Mangatawhiri River. At Koheroa, Cameron personally led the 14th Regiment. By 31 October the Maori King forces had been driven from Meremere; Rangiriri, after strong assaults by military and naval detachments, fell soon afterwards when its defenders, under Tioriori, surrendered. Ngaruawahia was entered on 8 December, and Cameron occupied this great area of the Waikato with 3,000 men. His headquarters were then at Tuhikaramea. Between 20–23 February 1864 Cameron outflanked strong positions at Paterangi by moving round to Rangiao-whia and Hairini. He was not present at the beginning of Orakau, but later, impressed by the bravery of the Maori defenders, attempted to obtain a surrender. The pa fell on 2 April 1864. Cameron then assaulted Gate Pa which fell on 30 April after an initial repulse the previous day. He continued his advance and caused heavy losses at Te Ranga on 21 June.
Cameron was averse to the S. Taranaki campaign which opened early in 1865 for the possession of Waitotara Block, and had no desire to see British regulars carry out this work. Perhaps his reluctance tempered his military judgment, for he estimated that two years might be required, and many more British troops. He refused to attack the strong position at Weraroa and, hugging the coast, advanced with that position remaining to his rear. Losses were suffered at Nukumaru and the advance continued northwards. Cameron crossed the Waitotara River on 3 February 1865 and with great deliberation set about building redoubts to hold the country. On 15 March 1865 there was an engagement with a rearguard at Kakaramea, and the force advanced to the Waingongoro River. Difficulties of opinion regarding the conduct of the war, and the need for it, between the colonial Government and Cameron led to his departure for Auckland on 25 April. He had offered his resignation to the War Office in February, and in June received permission to return to England.
Governor Grey himself was instrumental in capturing Weraroa, which in July was stormed without difficulty by a small force of regulars and colonial troops.
Cameron greatly admired Maori valour and military enterprise and maintained that only well-trained and disciplined regular troops could overcome them. He had no confidence in the various schemes for military pensioners and settlers. He was not a happy choice for command in New Zealand. A soldier of the old school, he relied on the formal methods of siege, sap, and garrison when conditions demanded a greater degree of mobility. Governor Grey found him “an impatient, ill-tempered, injudicious old man”, but undoubtedly Grey's own uneasy relations with his colonial Ministers added friction to a difficult association. This situation was worsened when the British Government gave Cameron an equal share in the responsibility of authorising operations which would result in large-scale land confiscation. Cameron's interpretation of the scene was such that his rigid sense of responsibility made him unwilling to risk either the troops under his command or the expenditure of United Kingdom money in enterprises which he felt ran contrary both to his instructions and to the long-term interests of the two races in New Zealand. His unambiguous attitude, which was upheld in England, precipitated the self-reliance policy of the later 1860s.
After his return to England, Cameron was promoted lieutenant-general (1868) and general (1874). He served, 1868–75, as Governor of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
On 10 September 1873, he married Louisa Flora (died 5 May 1875), fourth daughter of Andrew Maclean, deputy inspector-general of the Military College, Sandhurst. He died without issue at Blackheath on 7 June 1888.
by Ian McLean Wards, M.A., Research Officer, Historical Publications Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington.
- Sir George Grey, K.C.B., Rutherford, J. (1961)
- The Defenders of New Zealand, Gudgeon, T. W. (1887)
- History of New Zealand, Rusden, G. W. (3 vols., 1895).
(1893–1961).
Business man and civic leader; founder, Young Farmers' Clubs.
Better known as “A.C.”, Alexander Christie Cameron was born on 9 August 1893 at Roslyn, Dunedin, the son of William Robert Cameron, of Aberdalgie Parish, Perthshire, Scotland, a Dunedin exporter, and Elcena Agnes née Christie, of Dunedin. Cameron was educated at Dunedin, where he devoted a lifetime of extraordinary service to the community and the nation. His interests were unusually varied and, in spite of the demands of an expanding business, he gave to each an intensity of energy and purpose which few men in the context of life in the Dominion have equalled, and without neglecting the more intimate ties of family and church.
Cameron began his business career with W. E. Reynolds and Co., Dunedin, but soon transferred to the National Mortgage and Agency Co. Ltd., of which he became export manager, spending a year in London. He was then appointed Dunedin manager and, later, general manager of the Farmers' Mutual Insurance Association. In this position he successfully established the Farm Accounting Association of New Zealand, a parallel business for serving farmers. He retired on 31 March 1961, after 35 years' service, and died suddenly at his residence, 54 Grendon Street, Dunedin, on 14 April 1961.
As president of the Chamber of Commerce during the depression of 1931–34, he guided it in its task of finding employment for every youth aged between 17 and 20 – a service regarded as one of the finest pieces of social work ever done in the province. During the Second World War he was a member of the Otago Provincial Patriotic Council, chairman of the Dunedin Committee, and deputy chairman of the Otago Council of Primary Production. He played a large part in the arrangements for celebrating Otago's centenary in 1948, was vice-chairman of the Centennial Committee, and chairman of its Historical Committee, which supervised the publication of the History of Otago and of 17 district histories, a record no other province has achieved. Other Dunedin organisations that claimed Cameron's interest – and with him “interest” was synonymous with “action” and usually also with “leadership” – were the Dunedin Amenities Society, of which he was president at the time of his death, the Citizen's Association, the University Club, the Board of John McGlashan College, the Hocken Library, and the Friends of the Museum.
Two nation-wide associations to which he gave devoted service were the Young Famers' Club movement and the Royal Agricultural Society of New Zealand. As an extension of the “educational weeks” which he organised in Otago and Southland in the thirties, he founded the Young Farmers' Clubs – a movement that had just been conceived – first in Otago and Southland and then further afield. He also promoted the formation of the New Zealand Federation of Young Farmers' Clubs, of which he was successively the first president, then patron, and finally recognised officially as founder. He was a member of the Royal Agricultural Society, being honorary secretary of the Southern District Council for over 20 years, and was also a member of the Dominion Council, on which his thoughtful contributions of ideas and in debate marked him out as one who never lost sight of the larger aims of a national organisation.
Cameron was a member for many years of the Dominion Council of the Plunket Society, a member of session of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Dunedin, and sessions clerk of the local Chinese Church. His war services – he enlisted at the age of 20 – included four years with the New Zealand Field Artillery in the First World War; he was four times wounded, three times mentioned in despatches, and was awarded the Military Cross in 1917. For his services to the community he received the M.B.E. in 1951.
On 6 June 1922, at Perth, Perthshire, Scotland, Cameron married Dorothy Mary Smith, M.B., CH.B.(EDIN.), by whom he had one son and two daughters.
by Leonard John Wild, C.B.E., M.A., B.SC.(HON.), D.SC., formerly Pro-Chancellor of the University of New Zealand, Otaki.
Otago Daily Times, 14 Apr 1961 (Obit).
Cambridge is situated on flat land on the banks of the Waikato River close to the eastern fringe of the Mid-Waikato Plain. Within 8 miles to the north-east, the land rises gently to the Maungakawa Hills and about 4 miles south-east the flat is broken by the Pukekura Range, which extends north-west from Maungatautari Mountain (2,639 ft). The main highway between Hamilton, 14 miles north-west, and Rotorua, 53 miles southeast, passes through Cambridge. A branch goods-traffic line links Cambridge with the Hamilton-Rotorua railway at Ruakura, 12 miles north-west.
The main primary industries of the Cambridge district are dairying, sheep raising, and cattle fattening. Pig farming is carried on in conjunction with dairying, and poultry raising is also practised. Dairy factories are located in several nearby country settlements, the main product being cheese. Cambridge is chiefly a servicing and distributing centre. Among its industrial activities are the production of cheese, sawmilling, general engineering, and the manufacture of concrete products. To a small extent Cambridge serves as a dormitory for workers in the nearby city of Hamilton.
In pre-colonial days Cambridge was the site of an important Maori pa called Horotiu, the same name being applied to the course of the Waikato River from the vicinity of this pa to Ngaruawahia. Cambridge was chosen as a military settlement in June 1864, largely due to its position near the upstream limit of navigation for the steam vessels employed by the forces under General Sir Duncan Cameron during the Waikato War. Colonel Theodore Minet Haultain, Commandant of the Waikato Regiments, was responsible for the fixing of the actual site but he was assisted by General Cameron, and by Captain Cadell, the officer in charge of the river steamers. The 3rd Waikato Regiment camped on the site in 1865 and constructed a redoubt capable of accommodating a garrison of more than 1,000 men. With the end of hostilities and the expansion of farm settlement, Cambridge grew as a market town. In 1868 Cambridge became a highway district administered by a board of trustees. It was created a town district in 1882 and in 1886 attained borough status. The settlement of Leamington, which grew up on the left bank of the Waikato River opposite Cambridge, is linked to it by a traffic bridge. Leamington was created an independent town district in 1905 and, following merger proposals in 1956, became part of the Borough of Cambridge in 1958. The name Cambridge is stated to have been given by General Cameron because of a supposed resemblance of that part of the Waikato River to the River Cam in Cambridgeshire.
POPULATION: 1951 census, 3,020; 1956 census, 3,408; 1961 census, 5,284.
by Brian Newton Davis, M.A., Vicar, St. Philips, Karori West, Wellington and Edward Stewart Dollimore, Research Officer, Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington.
(1882–1951).
Justice of the Supreme Court.
A new biography of Callan, John Bartholomew appears in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on this site.
John Bartholomew Callan was the son of John Bartholomew Callan, the founder of the Dunedin legal firm of Callan and Gallaway, and spent practically the whole of his professional life at the Bar in Dunedin. He was born on 15 August 1882, five years after his family's arrival in New Zealand from Australia. The Callans were kinsmen of a notable Australian legal family, the Gavan Duffys, with whom John Bartholomew Callan, senior, emigrated to Victoria in 1859, the departure being not unconnected with the Young Ireland troubles of 1848. In fact, Charles Gavan Duffy, from whom Mr Justice Callan was descended, was tried for sedition and treason-felony as a result of his part in the Young Ireland movement. But he lived to be knighted K.C.M.G. by Her Majesty, to become Premier of Victoria and an eminent Australian statesman. His son became Chief Justice of Australia and his grandson, a cousin of Mr Justice Callan, is at present a puisne Judge in Victoria. Callan was educated at the Christian Brothers School in Dunedin and commenced his law studies before the Law Faculty came into being. His principal coach was the late Professor Garrow, author of some of the best-known legal textbooks published in New Zealand. After graduating B.A. and LL.B. at the University of Otago, he entered his father's office and became a partner in the firm when his father was appointed to the Legislative Council in 1907. He continued to practise in Dunedin until he took silk in 1933, when he moved on to Wellington. In the following year he was appointed to the Supreme Court Bench. By general consent he was regarded as one of the leaders of a strong Bar in Dunedin, and his elevation to the Bench was considered by many to be a tardy recognition of his fitness and qualification for judicial work.
Callan was eminently suited to hold a judgeship – he had deep scholarship, a keen intellect, and a profound knowledge of the law. He was thoroughly schooled in legal principles and, as a man of the world, was equipped by nature and character to deal with the affairs of men of the world. Yet, withal he was of a gentle, kindly, and considerate temperament. The courageous independence of thought and action which he displayed at the Bar stood him in good stead on the Bench, where he attracted immediate attention by the masterly control he always exercised over his Court, by the apt and lucid language of his judgments, and by his skill in dealing with and directing the course of business in Chambers – the Cinderella of judicial procedure. Moreover, throughout his career he was a leader among members of his profession. For 10 years he was Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Otago and a member of the Council of Legal Education, and in the last years of his life his judicial detachment was relieved by the ease with which he could move among and mix with his fellow men, both lay and professional. As he arrested the attention of the Bench when at the Bar, so he compelled the admiration of the Bar and the public from the Bench. He died in Auckland on 21 February 1951 at the age of 69, an outstanding Judge of the New Zealand Bench.
On 10 July 1913, at the North-East Valley Roman Catholic Church, Dunedin, Callan married Margaret Elizabeth, daughter of James Dugald Mowatt, a Dunedin stationer, and they had one son.
by Ronald Jones, Journalist and Script Writer, New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation, Wellington.
- New Zealand Herald, 16 Feb 1951 (Obit)
- Auckland Star, 15 Feb 1951 (Obit).
(1885–1956).
Clergyman and social worker.
Calder was born at Ponsonby on 22 May 1885, the second son of the Rev. William Calder, vicar of All Saints' Church and later Archdeacon of Auckland. He attended the Ponsonby School and the Auckland Grammar School, and after a period in a city office took up studies at King's College, London, and St. John's College, Auckland. Entering the Anglican ministry in 1910, Calder earned notoriety as curate at Whangarei by taking part in a buckjumping contest on the spur of the moment and coming out winner. This and his interest in racing (he did not bet) caused him to be known for a time as “the sporting parson”.
After a period as vicar of Grey Lynn and curate at St. Matthew's, a city church, he helped in 1920 to launch the Anglican City Mission, of which he was head for the next 26 years. In addition to directing the evangelistic and social work of the mission, he was a pioneer of the health camp movement and founded two institutions, a permanent camp for children at Oneroa, Waiheke Island, and a convalescent home at Campbells Bay. In the depression of the 1930s he opened a soup kitchen and, in face of some criticism, a “doss house”, which he managed most effectively thanks to a full understanding of rough characters and their ways. He was awarded the M.B.E. in 1935. In 1941 he went to California for a holiday, and when the Pacific War broke out, he worked his passage to Sydney as a seaman in a cargo vessel. While running his mission he took charge for five years of a city parish for which a minister could not be found. He also served as honorary probation officer to the Auckland Racing Club, doing much useful work among young jockeys, apprentices, and stable hands.
When he retired from the mission, Calder settled on a suburban farm, where he grew vegetables for charitable institutions. For 10 years before his death he operated in succession two large launches, in which he took an estimated 6,000 children, old folk, and other deserving people for excursions on the Waitemata Harbour. In recognition of this he was given the honorary title of chaplain to the yachtsmen of Auckland. He died on 10 February 1956.
Calder was a mercurial extrovert, who took pleasure and pride in being himself, with little regard for conventional manners or the opinions of straitlaced people. He had a ready tongue, a flow of rough wit, and a consistent delight in doing the unexpected thing. He was reported to have once said that what he did not know about life could be written on a cigarette paper. He combined this knowledge of the “other half” with a strong sense of duty to all types of unsuccessful and unfortunate folk, whom he helped during most of his life.
by Alfred Fearon Grace, Journalist, Auckland.
- New Zealand Herald, 14 Feb 1956 (Obit)
- Evening Post, 11 Feb 1956 (Obit).
(Cordyline australis).
The cabbage tree is a familiar sight in swamps or dampish places throughout New Zealand vegetation. It is also planted occasionally in gardens and parks and has been introduced into horticulture overseas. It reaches heights of 40 ft at its maximum development with diameters of 1–4 ft. The crown is made up of long, bare branches carrying bushy heads of large, grasslike leaves 2–3 ft long. Early settlers used the young leaves from the centre of these heads as a substitute for cabbage – hence the common name. At flowering time large panicles of small, white, sweet-scented flowers emerge from the centre of the heads. Good flowering seasons occur every few years only. It is said that they foretell dry summers but, from observation, they usually follow dry seasons. Small, whitish berries are formed which are readily eaten by birds. The tree is very tenacious of life, and chips of the wood or sections of the stem will readily shoot. The leaves contain a high percentage of long fibres which are occasionally extracted.
The genus Cordyline is placed by many botanists in the lily family, a group of plants which contains few trees, C. australis being the largest. The genus contains over twenty species most of which occur in the warm temperate and tropical regions of the southern hemisphere. Apart from the cabbage tree, there are four other species in New Zealand and the surrounding islands. The commonest are C. banksii which has a slender, sweeping trunk, and C. indivisa, a most handsome plant, with a trunk up to 25 ft high bearing a massive head of broad leaves 2–6 ft long.
The Maoris obtained a most nutritious food, kauru, from the root of the young cabbage tree. This root is an extension of the trunk below the surface of the ground and is shaped like an enormous carrot some 2–3 ft long. An observer of the early 1840s, Edward Shortland, noted that the Maoris “prefer those grown in deep rich soil; they have learned to dig it at the season when it contains the greatest quantity of saccharine matter; that is, just before the flowering of the plant. They then bake, or rather steam it in their ovens. On cooling, the sugar is partially crystallised, and is found mixed with other matter between the fibres of the root, which are easily separated by tearing them asunder, and are then dipped in water and chewed”.
by Alec Lindsay Poole, M.SC., B.FOR.SC., F.R.S.N.Z., Director-General of Forests, Wellington.
(1871–1949).
University professor.
A new biography of Zedlitz, George William Edward Ernest von appears in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on this site.
George William von Zedlitz was born on 10 March 1871 at Hermannswaldau, in German Silesia, the only son of Baron Sigismund von Zedlitz-Neukirk, who was a lieutenant in the Prussian army, and Mary Bethia, née Woolf, an Englishwoman. He was educated at Wellington College (England) and at Trinity College, Oxford, where he took honours in Classical Moderations and Literae Humaniores. In the Oxford Union, where he often crossed swords with Hilaire Belloc, Zedlitz was known as a brilliant debater. From 1896 until 1901 he was an assistant master at Loretto, in Scotland, and also contributed to the London Globe. In the latter year he was appointed Professor of Modern Languages at Victoria University College, arriving in Wellington on 22 March 1902. He served a term as chairman of the Professorial Board and became prominent in the university reform movement. In October 1908, with Rankine Brown and Easterfield, he circulated a manifesto criticising the federal character of the University of New Zealand. In addition to his academic duties, Zedlitz acted from 1912 to 1914 as official translator to the New Zealand Government. On the outbreak of war in 1914, Zedlitz volunteered to return to Germany as a Red Cross worker. When this became known there was a revulsion of feeling against him and, notwithstanding the intervention of Sir H. F. D. Bell, the Government introduced legislation to secure his removal from Victoria College. Although the College Council defended him strongly, Zedlitz was removed in October 1915 by the Alien Enemy Teachers Act.
In 1920, with C. E. Blundell, Zedlitz founded the University Tutorial School, of which he remained principal until shortly before his death. He became well known as an adult education lecturer and as a broadcaster. In 1936 Victoria University College made him Professor Emeritus and, in the same year, he was elected to the Senate of the University of New Zealand.
On 4 January 1905, at the Church of St. James, Lower Hutt, Zedlitz married Alice Maud Fitzherbert (1877–1957). There were three children, a son and two daughters. Zedlitz died at Lower Hutt on 23 May 1949. Although it was a cause célèbre in its day, the Zedlitz case has now only an academic significance. It is an excellent example of the folly of legislating in response to mass hysteria.
by Bernard John Foster, M.A., Research Officer, Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington.
- The Search for a Country, Zedlitz, G. W. (1963)
- the Dominion, 25 May 1949 (Obit)
- Victoria College … a history, Beaglehole, J. C. (1949).
“The sea's own heart must needs wax proud
To have borne the world a child like thee”.
So wrote Swinburne in one of his more inflated moments. He was extolling not Zealandia, Mother of the Free, but apostrophising the Empire of the Good Queen's Jubilee in 1887.
Over Athens had presided the grey-eyed Pallas Athene, helmeted, gold armour clad (when the armour wasn't being melted down for the war effort); a figure of calm resolution, her spear tip gleaming to the Ionian Sea. Some 2,000 years later, Britain furbished up Britannia in Achilles' helmet, classically robed and posed beside a cartwheel shield, and armed with trident. Pax Britannica!
What of New Zealand, Britain of the South? These were the days of the Athenaeums, days when the classics were sometimes quoted in the colonial Parliament, days when Progress was dawning as never Progress dawned before in dark bush yielding to the plough.
“Out of the shadow, starlike still,
She rose up radiant in her right”,
says Swinburne. And so rose up Zealandia, full-armed, from the head of first one artist, then another. Britannia's Daughter, more than ocean-girt (no one ever mentioned father), she became the mother-mistress symbol of young nationhood. On music scores and programmes she wore her cloche helmet – a sad sort of coal scuttle – with a sword cast carelessly at her feet, the right hand clutching a cornucopia pouring forth apples and pears while from the left there dangled the caduceus. Depending on the skill of the artist, her expression ranged from vacuous insipidity to a crystal-gazing trance.
“How should not she best know, love best,
And best of all souls understand”,
asks Swinburne. How not indeed? They even named a weekly paper after her, and a pub or two. And would-be bards, agonising in the Poet's Corner of their local news sheet, ceaselessly extolled her charms – Zealandia of the sea-girt isles!
But greater fame was in store. Universal penny postage (ah, Progress) swept her triumphantly onward and outward on the flood of trivialities that makes up the postbag. From 1901 till 1909, in a well-washed red, her figure was daily battered by the cancellation mark of every post office in the land. Zealandia has suffered a sea change. She now stands on the end of a wharf, leaning against a murky globe. The caduceus shows signs of weighing heavy, and her right hand rests unsteadily on the foremast of a proud steamer tossing in mid-Tasman. She has lost her hat, and her tresses are wildly windswept. There is a slight glaze to her eye: she looks dissolute. Against the gale her nightie is reinforced by a nether Kaiapoi rug. It is cold, and there's not a sailor in sight.
“From light to light her eyes imperial
Turn, and require the further light”,
says Swinburne. The engraver was Henry Bourne “who had great difficulty in producing a satisfactory figure owing to the very poor model provided for him”.
Refaced but not disgraced, she has slipped away from our midst. Well, we have had our worse symbols. There has been some experimenting with Maori chiefs and fern leaves and moas and kiwis. On many Government publications there is still a crown and shield propped on one flank by a matted Maori with taiaha and hair-do; and on the other – can it be? – yes! Zealandia's Daughter solicitously chatting him, or chattingly soliciting him in a sexless sort of way. Zealandia's nightie has been cut down a bit, and the draughtsmanship is not even as good as in Mother's day.
“So from time's mistier mountain lawn
The spirit of man, in trust immortal
Yearns toward a hope withdrawn”,
says Swinburne.
by Denis James Matthews Glover, D.S.C., B.A., Author and Typographer, Wellington.
