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Hokitika Guardian, 17 January 1922, Page 4

The bier was laid beside a concrete vault. The people scattered around the mounds reverently seated themselves, as is the custom of Tonga, for no one may stand in the presence of a chief, even though he be dead. In turn the Ministers read the service, the “man that is born of woman,” tho “dust to dust” ; the band played, the choir of students chanted. Tho clergy bowed and vanished amid the palms. The crowd shuffled, stood up, looked at the mat-covered coffin, and took, short cute over the heaps of earth awa from the place where the big chief lav. The hand played a quickstep and marched briskly'. Girls laughed, plucked oleander, and decorated their hair, i Tho few white men wiped away the I perspiration. The chief had passed.

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