_The Evening Post_, 1 Sept 1923:
NEW ZEALAND WRITERS
CRITICISMS OF THEIR WORK
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The average [New Zealand] reader of fiction … prefers a story about London or Devonshire, or Wyoming or Ruritania, to one about Auckland or Wellington, or the sheep on a hundred hills at the back of the Canterbury Plains.… [and is] not particularly interested in a novelist’s conception of the life that he sees about him…
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19230901.2.163
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