"BUILD IN CONCRETE"
"Don't Worry About Model Pas," Says Sir A. Ngata "I have he^rd of your proposals from time to time to build a model pa in Hawke's Bay? and I should advise you not to worry about it," declared Sir Apirana Ngata, M.A., LL.D., M.P., in his address last night to the Hastings Historical Society. "You cannot reconstruct those paB now," he added. "For a start you will want totara logs for the palisades, but where can you get them, and what will they cost if you can? Even a greater obstacle is the fire danger resulting from a match being carelessly tlirowu into the long grass. The Maoris did not have this to worry about. "If you must built a model pa, build it in concrete; and I might say that had our ancestors known of concrete they would have used it, too. ■ "We must be senBible and practical. Let us preserve thfe outlines of the pas we have still left. Otatara pa at Taradale is a fine example of the work of the early tribes, with its terraces on the hillside still plainly visible."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 33, 2 November 1937, Page 4
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