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Tales of Banks Peninsula

Preface To Second Edition

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Preface To Second Edition.

It is now nearly ten years ago since I published the first edition of the "Stosies of Banks Peninsula," They were so well received that in a few weeks all had gone; and from that time to this I have been collecting fresh matter with a view to the publication of the second enlarged edition that is now before you. There is a sort of mournful congratulation in looking over the preface of 1883 —congratulation in having secured the information before those who gave it had passed away—sorrow that so many who were then in strength and health had since ceased to live. Mr. Justin Aylmer, Mr. Garwood, Mr. Moore, the Rev. R. R, Bradley, Billy Simpson, and a host of others who aided me in my first pleasant task have since joined the majority, and had I waited a year or two longer it would have been impossible to procure the records which are now before you for the second time. Greatly enlarged as the edition is, I have not had room for all the matter at my eommand, and live in the hope of yet publishing a third and larger issue in the years to come. Need I record my thanks to the public for their kind reception of my former effort, and my hope that a similar fate may be accorded to the second.

H. C. Jacobson.

Akaroa, June 4, 1893.