THE SEAGULL STORY.
A SCHOOLBOY’S EFFORT. To a certain school on the Hauraki Plains came a 10-year-old Maori boy recently. He attended for three days and then passed on. The pupils in the class in which he was placed were asked to write a composition on “A Seagul,” and the following was his contribution : “bn many partp of New Zealand there are lots of our native birds. We call them seagull, and it is not a seagull our native bird. In the world there are so many bird that we used to call them native bird. Fantail, pigeon, tui, and other kind of bird we ■do not know. Seagull is a very quiet .pet bird because they comes out into the playground and fly about' looking for crumbs of bread and other kinds •of fruit they can eat. They are a very pretty birds because she has ■white on her chest and on her back and a little black on her wings. When she flies she spread ner leg right under her tails. We may suppose that her legs and her noses is brown.”
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4755, 24 September 1924, Page 1
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184THE SEAGULL STORY. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4755, 24 September 1924, Page 1
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