Te Pipiwharauroa 44

Te Pipiwharauroa 44

Number 44

1901/10/01

(Maori Version at NZETC)

[1] Te Pipiwharauroa, He Kupu Whakamarama, Number 44, Gisborne, October 1901

THE ISLAND OF MOTITI

(Written for Te Pipiwharauroa)

Motiti is almost 2000 acres in extent. The land is fertile and flat. In past times it was covered by cabbage-trees. Now it is all worked. Some parts are grazed [lit. ranged] by livestock. Half of the island is in Maori occupation and the remainder in Pakeha. The foods grown by Maori are corn, potatoes, gourds and other foods.

Te Pipiwharauroa 43

Te Pipiwharauroa 43

No.43

1901/09/01

(Maori Version at NZETC)

[1] Te Pipiwharauroa, He Kupu Whakamarama, Number 43, Gisborne, September 1901

ALCOHOL

(by Maui Pomare MD)

(Written for Te Pipiwharauroa.)

This is one of our enemies – liquor. Although it is a bad friend to us, what is that to the Maori? He allows liquor to be a good friend to him, a chief to him. Alcohol is not a food – no-one gets drunk on food. Some people say that liquor is a strengthening food for people; that saying is a fiction, because the strength of a person’s muscles has been measured before and after drinking glasses of alcohol, and it has been found that the strength of his body has decreased after drinking alcohol, whatever he himself thinks of the strength of his body. So that thing, alcohol, speaks falsely, saying that you are strong at a time when you are not strong; and it says that you are warm at a time when you are cold.