The following incident is reported to have happened in the Wanganui district- An old and respected Maori died and, according to custom, his money, a handy sum of £3OO, was to be buried with him. whereupon the wise man of th® tribe, a keen business person who seems to have had some insight into the way of the civilised financial world, offered a cheque in exchange for the money, which offer was gratefully accepted, to the apparent satisfaction of everybody-
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4469, 20 September 1922, Page 2
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