MAORI CUSTOMS DYING OUT?
TRADITIONS NEGLECTED “I 4 would say that the death of this chief severs the last link of we local Maoris with the past. He carried our Maori lore, customs and traditions. You can now see that we Maoris are left destitute of what was our individuality,” said Mr A. O. Stewart, speaking at the tangi for the late Maori chief, Te Keepa Tawhio, at the Wairaka Pa, Whakatane, on Friday. “We are striving to acquire European culture,” he added, • “and in doing so are forgetting our own., But we who, have had a taste of the culture think it is for our eventual benefit.”
“However,’ he continued, “I venture to say that the people of Tuhoe will be the only ones who will carry on the Maori tradition in the Matatua district —but only as long as the European culture will let them. It must in time give way' to Pakeha habits.”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 17, 8 November 1948, Page 4
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156MAORI CUSTOMS DYING OUT? Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 17, 8 November 1948, Page 4
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