A contributor to the Sydney Bulletin states: “A Hawke’s Bay township) bail its first Agricultural Show the other day, and among other ■’’novelty?.' items was a chain-stopping contest (entry a hob—prise a guinea). A Maori woman won. Later, at the pm, with many grins, they told me how. Our unsophisticated sisterhad tethered lier ankles with a cord, which enabled her to step) a yard exactly. and her petticoats had hidden the fraud. There was much waipiro at the pa that night.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2040, 27 March 1907, Page 2
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81Page 2 Advertisements Column 6 Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2040, 27 March 1907, Page 2
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