"One girl asked me if we were not scared of the Maoris rising against us; were they properly 1 civilised now, or did they still throw the boomerang around?" If this extract from a letter written I by a well-known Auckland musician, Miss Moya Cooper-Smith, is |not sufficient to humble our pride, ! here is another: "One man asked me the name of 'New Zealand's main street', as a friend of his lived there!"
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Chronicle (Levin), 22 February 1949, Page 4
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