PAKEHA MOTHER-BIRD.
A NATIVE’S IMASEKT. A Paeroa native sends the following description of the airplane [we prefer the spelling “airplane,’’ as against the ancient form “aero”plaqe] which has been on hire in Paeroa tor .the past week or so: There’s a miracle that was seen in Paeroa on the 22nd of May, 1922, and in this miracle was one of* the Maori chiefs ajid chieftainesses. They went up into the air a mile and looked down to the city down below. The Ohinemuri River was like a snail track And Paeroa looks like a big cjty up there. “Oh, I feel myself young again I” said the chief when he get down again. “No doubt the Pakeha big bird is wonderful, and I hope she be back in Paeroa again. Never in my life before had I been up in the air, and so far that is the nearest I have been to heaven.” And he told the driver of the big bird next time they go up he take a trip round the whole of, New Zealand. This old Maori chief is ninety years old, and his name is Hone Ngatara; and the chieftainess is Mrs G. Nicholls.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4418, 24 May 1922, Page 2
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199PAKEHA MOTHER-BIRD. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4418, 24 May 1922, Page 2
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