Peter Williams: An Unpublished Letter to the Editor

The following arrived in my inbox via an old friend.

The writer is well known retired Auckland eye surgeon, conservative thinker and cricket fan Dr Hylton Le Grice.

He submitted it to his local paper, the New Zealand Herald, whose management and editor decided it was not worthy of publication.

Dr Hylton Le Grice: God save the New Zealand that we once knew.

1. Recently – Otago University – the oldest in NZ, and founded with pure Scottish history by new immigrants – my ‘Alma Mater’ for my 6 years undergraduate study in Medicine, and where 2 grandchildren are recent graduates and 2 are presently attending there – has recently – ‘wait for it’ -unbelievably announced a name change to that of the invented M?ori title of ‘Otakou Whakaihu’. Of course, Māori had a lot to do with the foundation of Otago University in 1869 – like ‘zilch’!!!