Te Pipiwharauroa 124

Te Pipiwharauroa 124

No. 124

1908/07

(Maori Version at NZETC.)

[1] Te Pipiwharauroa, He Kupu Whakamarama, Number 124, Gisborne, July 1908.

‘As clouds deck the heavens, so feathers enable the bird to fly.’ [cf. Nga Pepeha 352]

AGRICULTURE

When I arrived at Te Aute, the pupils and their parents had one main idea, to strive to get the learning of the Pakeha and to enter upon their highest offices. If a young Maori entered a lawyer’s office his parents were very proud; it was also a great thing for Maori if his child qualified as a carpenter, a blacksmith, a tailor, a salesman, or in other of the many occupations of the Pakeha. But I did not hear of one of my friends at school wanting to become a farmer.

Te Pipiwharauroa 106

Te Pipiwharauroa 106

No. 106

1907/01

(Maori Version at NZETC.)

[1] Te Pipiwharauroa, He Kupu Whakamarama, Number 106, Gisborne, January 1907

THE WICKEDNESS OF MURDER

The accounts of the murder in Ngapuhi last December were horrifying. We shall not say much about this murder; murder is not a pleasant thing to talk about. The reason we wrote this article is to share some thoughts that came to us.

Te Pipiwharauroa 103

Te Pipiwharauroa 103

No.103

1906/08

(Maori Version at NZETC.)

[1] Te Pipiwharauroa, He Kupu Whakamarama, Number 103, Gisborne, October 1906.

‘THE SMELL OF THE FIRES HAS GONE.’

In Captain Cook’s account of his arrival at Turanganui he said, ‘For the face of the Country appears with a variety of hills and Vallies, all cloathed with woods and Verdure, and to all appearances well inhabited, especially in the Vallies leading up from the Bay, where we daily saw Smoke at a great distance inland.’ [Captain Cook’s Journal] The elders still hold on to memories of the days when the face of the land was covered with houses and people. Now in these days the land has been lost - lost people, lost land.

Te Pipiwharauroa 92

Te Pipiwharauroa 92

No. 92

1905/11

(Maori Version at NZETC.)

[1] Te Pipiwharauroa, He Kupu Whakamarama, Number 92, Gisborne, November 1905.

BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER AS ONE.

People, chiefs, what are you doing in response to our appeal to revive the Waitangi Association? If you agree, why delay setting the date and the place for holding the hui, and choosing the members of that hui? The Land Confiscation Act has been passed and, before a single acre is confiscated, a hui should be quickly summoned so that the Government hears and the Pakeha become afraid and wary of taking land, and before it is opened up to be alienated by sale. The Government is not afraid of our members who are all slaves of Mr Seddon. Only Kaihau has stood out.