TAPU
Far up the Wanganui River are big eel weirs. They have been there for generations, writes "The Post's'" representative. Every year the Pipiriki Maoris repair them irr readiness for the annual "run" .of eels, when enormous catches are madev Pakeha ..residents on the river have noted that" this year nothing has been done to the weirs. There was an unfortunate accident some months ago, not far from the weirs, when several men were drowned, and so the river is "tapu," at any rate for the time being.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 86, 8 October 1940, Page 9
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88TAPU Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 86, 8 October 1940, Page 9
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