HANGATIKI.
The Native element has been in a state of ferment during the last fewdays. A volley fired from the Hangatiki Pa early on i hursciay morning announced the death of a little Miss Hotu. Preparations for the tangi commenced immediately, and many Maoris arrived by each train. Maori sorrow seems to develop peculiar longings, and the desire to show their sympathy keeps up until the poor family mourners are destitute of all the "kai" they had saved for many years.
"- The district is at present graced with the presence of His Majest}'', the Maori king, and the local band made some rare music as they accompanied him to the Pa.
A good'deal of dissatisfaction has been expressed over the intention of the Railway Department to change the name of the local station to Waitomo. Things are said now. What may be said in the dry tree, when such things are said in the green ? Imagine a tourist, on arriving at the Waitomo station expecting to walk straight into the " Caves." Some one would hear things when they told him that he had six miles to drive in a coach, and that the Waitomo station was not in Waitomo at all, but in Hangatiki.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 86, 12 June 1908, Page 5
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204HANGATIKI. King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 86, 12 June 1908, Page 5
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