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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 406, 4 July 1908, Page 4

The Polynesians, who had no alphabet, or hieroglyphics, cultivated memory to such an extent that it forms one of the racial characteristics of the people,” said Dr. Buck, lecturihg upon the Maori, at Auckland, last week. ” Elsdon Best secured some 400 songs from one man, without counting genealogies and tribal history. Percy Smith took down from the old man the genealogical descent of all the members of his tribe, involving the recollection of over 700 names and going back for some 34 generations. These genealogies were considered tapu by those who had been entrusted with them ; consequently it has been difficult to get them from the very old tohungas, and such of the Maori genealogies as we have are not reliable after 40 generations, though the Raratongan records go back 95 generations or so, to 450 B.Ci These ” continued Dr. Buck, “ are very reliable, having been given by the last old Rarotongan tohunga, Te Ariaki Tra-are.” The prices of vegetables may seem high,” said a grower at a meeting in Auckland, ‘‘but the grower doesn’t get the profit. Vegetables have to go through the hands of an auctioneer, and then through the shops of the middlemen, before they reach the consumer, and vegetables, being perishable goods, the middleman has to look out for a good margin of profit and provision against loss.” For Children’s’ Hacking Cough at night Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, is 6d and 3S 6d,