THEN AND NOW.
-..- / THE GOVERNMENT AND THE ■■ ■ . "PROPHET." (By Telegraph.-Special Correspondent.) Auckland, August 16. Preaching at the Rotortfa .Anglican Ohurch on Sunday, the Rev. P. Bennett, the well-known Maori clergyman, took the Government very severely .to task in regard to the "prophet," Rua. He said that fifty years ago, at the place where Eua now paraded openly with his eight wives, with the apparent consent of tho Government, ' church bells rang each Sunday, and every impulse of the people was The change was a sad commentary on our boasted civilisation, and it was a.disgrace to the authorities that such a condition could exist.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 897, 17 August 1910, Page 5
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103THEN AND NOW. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 897, 17 August 1910, Page 5
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