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Well Fair Laddie. Extravaganza 1961

Fine Under the White Shroud

Fine Under the White Shroud

Sir,—I have just finished listening with real dismay to the fine recording of "The End of My Flaming Tether" and wonder how it was possible for one man to capture so completely the spirit of any age. Rarely indeed can a soul so sensitive have dared to express his most secret feelings in public, and to have done so so finely. This is a field in which I have for a long time been interested and in my own way I have tried modestly to do something of the same with my touching ballad, "October in Oha-kune" where I sensitively tried to explain the real nature of a small New Zealand town without being condescending or smug. As my friend Clarence Drip would un-doubtedly say, "Aw, can it Mac." I hope that we will soon have another recording from Mr. Mesoon to rank alongside the well established and widely selling "Land of the Pure White Crowd."

Pete Howcute

(Ohakune).