Te Pipiwharauroa 42
No 42
No 42
1901/08/01
AN APOLOGY
A man wrote to us telling us of the sadness of his heart occasioned by some words in the first article in the July Te Pipiwharauroa about how people wanted to see and get close to the Duke, and headed ‘Hello Renata!’ The purpose of our article was to instruct and we did not think to hurt anyone. In our article about the hui at Rotorua we pointed out our anxiety lest we get things wrong through carelessness or confusion of thinking given the rapidity with which we had to write down those thoughts on our return from Rotorua, because our thoughts had not had time to settle. All those articles were written in haste, and as a result those startling words were written. It is a noble practice of the Pakeha to express sorrow for a mistake, and this is our expression of sorrow for our words which gave pain.
