Te Pipiwharauroa 103
No.103
1906/08
[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.
