"A HARK OF LOVE,"

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1088, 29 March 1911, Page 6

"A HARK OF LOVE,"

INSCRIPTION ON MAHUPUKTJ'S MONUMENT. Tho Government provided in last year's Estimates for a pro rata expenditure towards the cost of tho erection of tho Tamahau Mahupuku monument, which is to be unveiled at Papawai on Thursday. Tho total cost of tho monument is «£GOO, of which sum the Natives provide .Cl5O and tho Government tho balance. Tho Native contributions havo been from all over Now Zealand. Tho inscription on one of tho four bronze panels sneaks, in their Native tongue, "of tho great chieftain's worth. In a literal translation, the inscription loses much of tho beauty of its metaphor. .The following, however, is a fairly faithful rendering of tho text: — "This is a mark (/ love to Tamahau Mahupuku, who was born on September 25. IStO, and died at Papawai on January 11, 11)04. "A field of industry in himself, a repository of lore, and a high example, ho was a capable exponent of everything that is best in both races of these islands. A man of wide vision, and far-seeing, ho was quick to command, and _ as quick to execute. "Ho said this: 'The century of wo old men has closed. Wo now lio aside. Tho coming century is for vou young people."' The old chieftain said these words at tho close of tho last century in a public speech. The Natives continue to gather at tho Papawai pa.