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Every effort has been made to preserve the Māori macron using unicode.

Some keywords in the header are a local Electronic Text Center scheme to aid in establishing analytical groupings.

Revisions to the electronic version

• 19 November 2004
  Jamie Norrish
  Corrected "Its" to It's" on page 3. Changed "abject" to "object" on page 5. Changed "to" to "too" on page 8.

• 8 September 2004
  Colin Doig
  Added name tags to various names of people/places/organisation/titles.

• 16 August 2004
  Jason Darwin
  General document-wide corrections: changed hyphens to em-dashes; added [orig] tags around all words hyphenated over line-breaks; changed non-monetary fractions to true fractions; specified full expansion for all abbreviations; changed hyphen in numeric ranges to en-dashes; specified supralinear additions where they appear in the text of the letter; ensured all indented paragraphs are tagged [p rend="indent"]. Corrected text on page 1: changed "a la Conrad" to "à la Conrad"; changed "its damn" to "it's darn"; changed "down and writing in my dinner" to "down to write in my dinner"; changed "reckon its bonzer" to "lads reckon it's bonzer"; changed "Likewise you." to "Likewise you!"; changed "your pocket" to "into your pocket"; changed "he could give me" to "he would give me"; changed "books so much" to "books. So much". Corrected text on page 2: changed "sleeve links" to "sleeve-links"; changed "11 o'clock" to "1 o'clock"; changed "Lord Guerson" to "Lord Curzon"; changed "Guerson beak" to "Curzon beak"; changed "never done a days" to "never done a day's"; changed "sits in the smoking room" to "sits in the smoking-room"; changed "perfect gold mine" to "perfect gold-mine"; changed "saw a weaker looking" to "saw a weaker-looking"; changed "pretty ghastly hole" to "ghastly hole"; changed "inspected the extension" to "inspected the exterior". Corrected text on page 3: changed "round that we had" to "found that we had"; changed "fifty minute" to "fifty minutes'"; changed "behold it landed" to "behold! it landed"; changed "wildflowers" to "wild flowers"; changed "me) we" to "me). We"; changed "all 3 — 7" to "all — 3 to 7"; changed "on the domain" to "on the Domain"; changed "tenth-note politics" to "tenth-rate politics"; changed "NZ [unclear: course]" to "[abbr: New Zealand Company]". Corrected text on page 4: changed "[unclear: pretty]" to "pretty"; changed "invariably get Windfield" to "invariably get Whinfield"; changed "four strokes get you" to "four strokes gets you"; changed "Still its about" to "Still it's about"; changed "Creme de menthe" to "Créme de menthe". Corrected text on page 5: changed "Guerson who took" to "Curzon who took"; changed "board, one or two" to "board; one or two"; changed "mock final etc" to "mock trial etc"; changed "general's hat" to "generals hat"; changed "columns of" to "colours of". Corrected text on page 6: changed "them a girl called Berry" to "them, a girl called Berry"; changed "talent for kindly" to "talent for "kindly"; changed "have two jolly" to "has some jolly" changed "largest cinema theatres" to "largest cinema-theatres"; changed "however combating" to "however combatting"; changed "asphyxiating poison" to "asphyxiating prison"; changed "hatchet faces" to "hatchet-faces"; changed "secret seraphines" to "secret [unclear: seraphines]"; changed "button in the smoking room" to "button in the smoking-room"; changed "lemon squash" to "lemon-squash". Corrected text on page 7: changed "Aunties biscuits" to "Auntie's biscuits"; changed "we can have it" to "can have it"; changed "it is hot every morning" to "it is hot at 11 every morning"; changed "iced tea or coffee if" to "iced tea or coffee then if"; changed "But it is not much food" to "But it's not much good"; changed "thing that I have" to "thing I've"; changed "bless you a delicately" to "bless you, a delicately-"; changed "bloke like me recalled" to "bloke like me recoiled"; changed "some bird whos language" to "& one bird whose language"; changed "voyage or less" to "voyage more or less". Corrected text on page 8: changed "This is hero's work" to "This is heroic work"; changed "ice-creams & now" to "ice-creams, & now"; changed "cricket-match officers" to "cricket-match, officers"; changed "officers [unclear: foreman] appearing" to "officers further appearing"; changed "Our little Winfield" to "Our little Whinfield"; changed "Davies" to "Davies'"; changed "[unclear: Kendy's]" to "Hardy's".

• 1 March 2004
  Jamie Norrish
  Altered TEI Header: added extent of electronic version, altered format of XML, fixed respStmts in fileDesc.

• 7 January 2004
  Rob George
  altered spacing of markup