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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 71, 25 March 1933, Page 7

».....----.... : —,., .................... y ~„..- w..,,..... ■• Market Gardeners! ON TOP! '■ FOR QUALITY, VALUE, SERVICE CONSIQN YOUR PRODUCE TO THE DOMINION AUCTIONEERING BILLS BROS. LTD. 7 king street, palmerston north Otaki's Leading Grocers The Largest Fruit, Produce and Furniture OTAKI nTiifi raiiwav Awn at Mart in the District , OTAKI, OTAKI RAILWAY, AND AT CAMP SITE The D.A.C. is the popular meeting place for all because it caters for all. Make up your mind now to spend your next holiday in Otaki. Fall into line with hundreds of others and post WINTER SALES for Fruit and Produce on TUESDAYS, THURS- us a list of your requirements. We satisfy them and can DAYS and SATURDAYS, at 10.30 a.m. SUMMER SALES, at v satisfy you. 10 a.m. SPECIAL SALES for Pigs and Poultry every SATURDAY atlpm GOODS DELIVERED 'Plmm.*. fi o«J CQ FURNITURE AND CLEARING SALES conducted at any tiane. ANYWHERE _ TOOlieS 0 aiKi W I OTAKI by the SEA 1 AWAY back in the dim mists of time, perhaps old rangitira to build a church to his new God, and as I /\ six centuries ago, the early Maoris had select- . a propitiation for his life of sin and blood guilt, the I •I JLf. d H l6 °'f. k* dlstnct as a delightful place to old warrior sent his braves out to fell the mighty I . live m. Ihe communal .tribe loved its home, totaras in the forest, and bring them down to build a I and always selected its location where conditions of church. There stands the church to-day, perhaps the I life were easiest. The soil had to be good, the climate finest- and biggest' .of anything of its 'kind in New I congenial, the . sun had to shine, the sea had to be Zealand.- It is nearly ninety years ago but there: it I nearby, rivers had to be close handy, and last but not still stands, surrounded by the graves of his fighting I least, nature had to give of her abundance almost warriors and their numerous descendants. 'Itis a I . spontaneously. Well, if not in spontaneity, nature pretty spot, peaceful and quiet withal, and onaSun- I had t<v give at the minimum of labour. The Maori day morning it is good to stand among the tombstones I loved his home, he was not of the nomadic tempera- beneath the shade of oaks and native trees, and listen I ment; tents were not for him; he built very substantial to the Maoris, sing. Sing! Yes, it's good to hear them I whares that would endure for many years. The Otaki sing the old hymn tunes.in that liquid word music that coast-Jnie appealed to him, so there he built his "pa" is so wonderfully adapted for melody. It is also good 111 or kamga and there he settled, and lived and had to step in and hear the Rev. Temuera conduct the ser- I ins being Ihe tribes grew and multiplied and spread vice in that fine full toned Maori voice of his so full I all up and down the coast from the Manawatu river of colour, so deep and musical, so softly and satisfy- I down to Porirua. Branch tribes cut off from the main ingly falling upon the ears. Though the1 listener may I stem, and tribal warfare began in the good old Maori , not understand a word of it,, he will feel that the 1 way. Those sandhills along the coast were the scenes message is one of beauty and worthy of all accepta- I of many sanguinary contests for supremacy among the tion. Otaki is full of memories arid reminders of ill contending tribes. About one hundred and twenty ancient history. It is a peaceful place where the sun I years ago there came to the coast, and settled on the shines and the flowers grow, and- the larks sing, and | I Island of Kapih, the whalers. They brought the tubes -the sim rises and sets in a glowing radiariceof colour, I that spat out fire and killed at a distance. The whalers that never yet has a painter done justice to I came on the mainland to try out the blubber, made wi, t> , , I friends with the Maoris, and generally got along fairly Where Tasman s heaving ocean well with them. Away back in the Waikato, a Maori Rolls its breakers on the strand, | rangitira having heard of the tubes that spat out fire, Or sleeps m gentle motion, I I conceived the idea that the tribe thai could be On its bed of silver sand. ~ I I possessed of the fire spittefs could dominate New Let the visitor take a walk down to the beach and I I Zealand. This man was the celebrated Te Raujtaraha, laze on the sandhills in a bath of golden sunshine; or I I the bravest and most cunning fighting rangitira that let him strip off and bathe in that breaker-rolling I I Maori history records. He gathered his tribe together marge, where the warm current from Queensland II I and started on a trek to make friends with the whalers. sweeps down the South Taranaki Bight. Let him call I 111 He crossed rivers and mountain ranges, fought tribes at the Otaki Health Camp where there are always ■ 111 that barred his way, cleared forest tracks, to make a nearly one hundred underfed city children being fat--111 path, braved every obstacle, and after'more than a tened up, and made resisting from the "thousand I year of trekking, arrived at Otaki. He sent out his , natural shocks that flesh is heir to." The matron will I spies and they returned with glowing accounts of the make him'welcome; he will be shown round, and if he I 111 promised land. Te Eauparaha said it was good. He doesn't drop a donation in the box, then he won't de--111 Vike& those fine sandy beaches, the good land, the serve to be shown, over so beautiful a place. If he II flowing rivers, and again he said, it was good. He calls on a week-day, let him wander off to the pine | fought the local tribes, he won, made friends with the plantation, and there 'neath the shady trees he will |II whalers, got the guns he wanted, and from his head- see a multitude of kiddies squatting, on the.dry sandy 111 quarters on the Island of Kapiti, he brought nearly soil attending day school. Two school manns giving | all of the South Island of New Zealand under subjec- them nature lessons whilst they sit in Dame Nature's I 111. tion to the Ngata Raukawa tribe of Otaki. Then in very lap. Oh yes, these things are good to see, ever | 1840 a young curate from England settled on the Otaki so good. Come and see the children being taught/the HI beach and began to preach the Christian religion to three. Rs 'neath the pines, and within sound of "TasII the Maoris. Te Rauparaha was interested, not for man's heaving ocean." In these days of the labour I II himself, but for his tribes. He wanted peace, and pains of the world's new birth, the need of the children I 11| this was a religion of peace and goodwill,. Like Con- is so great, and so much greater, because of the condi- I |HI stantine of Rome, he pronounced an edict that hence- tions, the wonder is, how the money is found to fatten I | forth his people should be Christians, and it was so. up these wan-faced little victims of an up-side-down I II The young curate, Octavious Hadfield, by name, had world. Let no one who can spare a few shillings for- I I succeeded beyond his wildest, dreams. He induced the get them.. I

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