FAMOUS CHIEF'S DRAMATIC END

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 37, 17 July 1939, Page 8

FAMOUS CHIEF'S DRAMATIC END

Te Hcu Heu was one of the most important of the inland chiefs in 1840. As he lived on the shores of Lake Taupo he was remote from direct European influences for some time, and he was one of the few important chiefs who refused to sign the Treaty of Waitangi. He did not even become a Christian: his reply to Bishop Sclwyn is well known: "I ' have come to the eross road, and J see three ways—the English, the,Wcsleyan and the Roman. Each teacher says his own way is the best. I am sitting do\vn ( and doubting whic.-i guide I shall follow." He never made up his mind. On 7th May 1846 he and his village of Te Rapa were over, whelmed by a landslip, a disaster that left only one survivor. With him was buried h : s famous mere. Some years later one hundred men dug up both the mere and the bones of its owner. Te Heu H.eu's remains wer-i carried high up on to Mount Ruapchu and there left on a ledge of rock, a fact that makes the mountain sacred to this day. One of the peaks o,- Ruapehu bears Te Heu Heu's name. He himself in 1839 had been "cry indignant with John Carne Bid. will for ascending Ngauruhoe, another mountain regarded as sacred, but a gift of tobacco had appeased 'lis wrath. SERVICE One Auckland man who wears a hat only on rare occasions thought he'd seen the last of it when he left it on board an American-bound ship .•iter a large farewell party. He was agreeably surprised when the iiat, all nicely labelled, was sent back to him on the return voyage of the shin I'g-y fatness goes quickly with healthful Bonkora. .Xo dieting. Cull to-day. Obtainable F. G. Mneklow

NEW BOOKS . The monthly meeting of the Public Library Committee was held on, Wednesday .last, July 5, when Dr Dawson presided. The following books were selected for July: The Bishop's Jaegers Thorne Smith; East Wind, West Wind, Pearl Buck; Mr Pini Passes By, A. A. Milne; Land of ao Regrets, Lt Colonel x\. A. Irvine; Surgeon Extraordinary, Loyal Davis; Must Australia Fight lon L. Idriess. •J More Famous Trials, Earl of Birkenhead; Moon Over Stamboul, Anne DufField; Harlequin House,, Marge*y Sharp; My Years in Martha Dodd; The Healing Knife, George Sava; The Wind of Circumstance, Harold Dcarden; Playboy of the Air, Tim Mollison; In my Path, Ilalliday Sutherland; Hollywood Through the Back Door E. Nils Holstius.