Martin Hunt wrote in message news:...
> On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 23:15:10 +1300, vicki Steven
> wrote:
>
> >in article 3d00a841.0312132054.1f16d632@posting.google.com, Johnny Stewart
> >at aha_glad_sir2003@yahoo.ca wrote on 14/12/03 5:54 PM:
> >
> >> Secret New Zealand
> >> a travelogue
> >> by John Stewart
> >> Captions: a view across the main reach of the Queen Charlotte Sound
> >> Graeme Hopkins of Compass Charters will take you
> >> amongst grouper this size …
> >> Or to dive for a lunch of lobbies!
> >> (1050 words)
> >>
> >> Nelsonians proudly proclaim their patch to be “New
> >> Zealand’s best-kept secret”; trite, perhaps, but difficult
> >> to dispute.
> >
> >Some geography gone astray here ;-)!! - Marlborough is not part of Nelson -
> >but a separate district altogether. Neither are provinces any longer - NZ
> >abolished Provincial Govt in 1876 so the only use for the term "province" is
> >in Rugby Union - NPC = National Provincial Championships.
>
> Well, not quite. There are also local Anniversary Day holidays each
> year, which are generally based on the old Provincial boundaries.
>
> But the article needs a lot of correcting, which I won't attempt to
> complete. I will just comment that the Marlborough Sounds are drowned
> river valleys, not mountain ranges. Not to be confused with the
> "sounds" of Fiordland, which are fiords - formed by glaciers.
A ria is as I described it.
Fjord is spelt with a 'j,' not an 'i.'
But most importantly, I write, in the spirit of this column, for the
information and assistance of travellers ... not to appease the
nit-picky whims intellectuals and academics. It could be possible
here to get bogged down in irrelevancies, which would be sad, no?
John |