Springbok Tour Archive [Anti]: Auckland person's poem written after reading about tacks, fishhooks, etc. on a rugby field.

University of Canterbury Library

At the conclusion of the Springbok Rugby Tour of New Zealand from July to September 1981 members of the English Department of the University of Canterbury placed advertisements in a number of newspapers and periodicals throughout New Zealand asking for people's comments and experiences. These res...

Letter from John Cawte Beaglehole to his Mother, 12th August, 1926

New Zealand Electronic Text Collection

12/8/26 Sydney Dear Mummy , If I escape the traffic of this damned city I may survive to be killed in London . That however is by the way. I have had to miss the Tahiti 's mail this morning direct to Wgton through being out with Jean ever since I got here, but you oughtn't to get this very much l...

Letter from John Cawte Beaglehole to his Mother, 7th September, 1926

New Zealand Electronic Text Collection

7/9/26 S.S. "Osterley" Indian Ocean Dear Mummy We crossed the equator last night, or rather in the early hours of this morning, & although there has been rain part of the day — real tropical sheets of it last night à la Conrad , and a breeze all day it's darn hot sitting down to write in my dinne...

Letter from John Cawte Beaglehole to his Mother, 18 September 1926

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18/9/26 S.S. "Osterley" Red Sea    Dear Mummy    Well, to continue; though it is a hard job doing so in this weather, & just after dinner too. We are passing some country now I shouldn't like to do much tramping in — hills of bare rock, gravel & shingle-slides, sandhills & sand, hills razor hacke...

Letter from John Cawte Beaglehole to his Mother, 2 November, 1926

New Zealand Electronic Text Collection

21 Brunswick Sq. London WC1 2/11/26 Dear People, By cripes! I'd like to know what's hap- pened to my letter this week — not a line, not a fraction of a word from home. The darned mail was late as it was — I gaily strode down to the Bank on Thurs- day as my custom is in alternate weeks (the other ...

Letter from John Cawte Beaglehole to his Mother, 4 April, 1927

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21 Brunswick Square London WC1 4/4/27 My dear Mummy, Well, I have been having an exciting time since I wrote to you last — I have been to Bristol, & nearly saw a taxi nearly run over two girls to-day, & have lost a 10/- note, blast it, & had my hair cut; so you see that life is not standing still...

Letter from John Cawte Beaglehole to his Mother, 20 July 1927

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Innsbruck 20/7/27 My dear Mummy, This town goes forward with considerable éclat. But I think I’d better abandon the calculations necessary to catch the Frisco mail & let you have a short letter now, to go when & how the prevailing mails may take it. I think I wrote last from Brussels, but how far...

Letter from John Cawte Beaglehole to his Mother, 22 September 1927

New Zealand Electronic Text Collection

21 Brunswick Square London W.C.1 22/9/27 My dear Mummy, Well, there seems to get less & less news of movement to recount. This time last year we were just getting into the Mediterranean, & I was wondering whether to post a letter at Naples or not; I think I finally decided not, for sufficient rea...

Letter from John Cawte Beaglehole to his Mother, 07-10-1927

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7/10/27 My dear Mummy, Letter, cake, socks, cardigan, threepences, & Campbell to hand. For all of which many thanks. The letter is read, the cake is nearly eaten (having had a very short run) the socks are being worn at the present moment, the cardigan is being worn at other moments, the threepen...

Letter from John Cawte Beaglehole to his Mother, 28 November 1927

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17/11/27 My dear Mummy, I am apprehensive the mail may close tomorrow being Tuesday instead of Friday, or rather that there may be no supplementary mail on Friday, that being the one I usually catch, so I cut London Ronald & [ unclear: Suggia] & Schubert in [ unclear: C] & Debussy to make sure of...

Letter from John Cawte Beaglehole to his Mother, 1928

New Zealand Electronic Text Collection

21 Brunswick Square London W.C.1 21/2/28 My Dear Mummy, Great news about you this week! You do seem to be making great strides now. I was very pleased to get the snaps, taken with all Keithles’ usual sense of form & virtuosity. You seem to be looking pretty hale & hearty in them, with your summer...

Letter from John Cawte Beaglehole to his Mother, 20 March 1928

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21 Brunswick Square London W.C.1 20/3/28 My dear Mummy, As for your wretched attempt to defend yourself over the matter of Emma, I have nothing but scorn for it. You haven’t a leg to stand on — not ½ a leg. “Long & continued indisposition” indeed! God bless my heart & soul! I thought you had give...

Letter from John Cawte Beaglehole to his Mother, 3 May 1928

New Zealand Electronic Text Collection

3/5/1928 My dear Mummy , You see I have gone up in the world a step or two. Cambridge certainly puts it across London in the way of stationery. McGrath designed this paper & did the woodcut for the coat of arms. He has just agreed to do some typographical ornaments for the University Press; so it...

Letter from John Cawte Beaglehole to his Mother, 17 May 1928

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21 Brunswick Square London W.C.1 17/5/28 My dear Mummy, I continue to seem to have little to say. !!! (12 pages further on) When last I wrote I was at Cambridge, & I think I put in Thursday night & Friday morning writing. It seems hidden in an undiscoverable sunken past now, but I must see if I c...

Letter from John Cawte Beaglehole to his Mother, 15 June 1928

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21 Brunswick Square London W.C.1 15.6.28 My dear Mummy, Your letter received, also letters from Auntie & Ern: for all & for all enclosures many thanks. Cash I have not yet spent, though except for Auntie’s, which went to buy a cheap edition of H.M. Tomlinson’s Tidemarks, which you will remember. ...

Letter from John Cawte Beaglehole to his Mother, 20 August, 1928

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21 Brunswick Square London W.C.1 20.8.28 My Dear Mummy, I’ve just had a note from Manitoba to say that they’ve given two blokes jobs, but I’m not one of them. Also a few days ago, what was a lot more interesting, your last letter, complete with enclosures & appendices & what not, fat enough for a...

Letter from John Cawte Beaglehole to his Mother, 7 September 1928

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21 Brunswick Square London W.C.1 7.9.28 My dear Mummy, Well, fair dinkum, I am disappointed in Auntie Win! N.Z. generally I can understand, because it is a long way behind the times; but when Daddy says that Auntie Win doesn’t know anything about the Prayer Book & doesn’t want to, that really is ...

Letter from John Cawte Beaglehole to his Mother, 5 October 1928

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Letter from John Cawte Beaglehole to his Mother, 19 October 1928

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21 Brunswick Square London W.C.1 19.10.28 My dear Mummy, It was very cheering to see your fist again, even though it took me ½ a day to decipher some of the more esoteric words — but then that generally happens. It seems to me that the only good two coves with a really good hand- writing in the f...

Letter from John Cawte Beaglehole to his Mother, 13 November 1928

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21 Brunswick Square London W.C.1 13.11.28 My dear Mummy, It seems this is the last N.Z. mail before Xmas , so here I am, plunged in ink & sudden panic, with about two hours in which to write to you & all the blooming dear friends who haven’t written to me for God knows how long — all waiting from...