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Te Pipiwharauroa 75

Te Pipiwharauroa 75

No. 75
1904/05


[1] Te Pipiwharauroa, He Kupu Whakamarama, Number 75, Gisborne, May 1904

SUPPLEJACK SEEDS

I was at a place perhaps one hundred miles from Gisborne. It was a beautiful day, a cooling breeze blew from the sea, and the bush lay below me. As I looked I saw a child straight in front of me cradling a red bundle in his hands. The child came up to me while I was lying there and put his red seeds in a heap on the ground, saying to me, ‘Here are some supplejack seeds for Te Pipiwharauroa.’