HARE MATENGA.
NOTICE FROM MAORI COUNCIL
(Special to Times.) September 12. Detective Broberg and Constable McAllister have received a number of notices from Paratcne Ngata (father of Mr A. T. Ngata, M.11R.), Chairman of the Waiapu Maori Council, addressed to Hare Iliatenga, and to be placed in a conspicuous place in each bush camp in the Waitahaia district. The notice asks Matenga to quit his rambling through the bush, and return to his home without committing any fur ther depredations It also sets forth that it ho takes a copy of the notice with him it will servo as a passport to return home unmolested, and he will bo supplied with clothes and food by either Europeans or Maoris lie is notified that if he returns and gives up his tragic life, every assistance will be given him for his defence, and failing to comply with the request the Council will do all in its power to see that he is run to earth.
The copies of tho notice have boon tlisi tribute:! among all the bush camps. It is , hard to say whether Matenga will take ■ any heed if he sees tho notice, but its issue wiil do no harm, as it makes no assertion i 1 that he is being hunted—a fact which s I may make him more coniident, and be the I paeans of making capture less difficult.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1865, 20 September 1906, Page 3
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232HARE MATENGA. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1865, 20 September 1906, Page 3
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