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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 434, 10 September 1908, Page 4

The Tohunga appears to hold sway in the Cook Islands (wires a Wellington correspondent of a contemporary) as well as in New Zealand. Colonel Gudgeon, Resident Commissioner, in his annual report, states “ The tohunga is as dangerous to the well-being of the people of the Cook Islands as he has been in New Zealand for any time during the last five years, and in either place he will not easily be suppressed, for the simple reason that the Maori has more faith in the tohunga than in the doctor. There are certain aspects of the Maori mind most difficult toj deal with. Ror instance, if the first dose of medicine does not effect an immediate cure, it is no good, and he will have no more of it. Again, be cannot see that the food he is eating can have any connection with or effect on the malady from which he suffers, and therefore if his complaint be dysentery he will continue to eat tare or unripe mangoes, and his wife will neglect to cook him proper food, because she cannot see the necessity for so doing.” Have you tried Wolfe’s Schnapps for kidney ailments.