Many natives on the Wanganui river are in sore straits for food, owing to the potatoes last year being ruined by the potato blight. Many families are said to be practically starving, and reduced to living on fern and such other foods as they could obtain out of the bush. They have no seed potatoes to plant for next [ winter’s food supply. The schoolmaster at Pipiriki says many native children at- ' tending the school there are without food, I exeept what they obtain in the bush, and i the Homan Catholic priest at Jerusalem 1 writes that the little children are prac- ( tically foodless. There is urgent need ,1 for relief. The Premier has been ap- | proached, and has promised some assist- t ance, f
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1616, 1 December 1905, Page 2
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