An Ancient Maori Custom.
(Per Press Association.) Auckland, April 6. An old Maori custom of " hahaunga," or the exhuming of bodies for scraping and tangiing, is being interfered with by the police at Kaikohe, Bay of Islands, and the nativos in that district are much inceused thereat. Four natives named Fani Fabakoai, Faora Feene, Hanhee Timi and Harewhiai have been .summoned at Kaikohe for exhuming the bones of thoir deceased relatives without permission from the Colonial Secretary, under the Cemeteries Act, 1882.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 235, 7 April 1897, Page 2
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82An Ancient Maori Custom. Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 235, 7 April 1897, Page 2
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