THE MEDICINE MAN.
“Tohungaism” is said to be still rife among the Maoris in the Wairarapa (wires the Times’ Masterton correspondent), and it is reported that during the past few days several Natives have journeyed to Foxton to consult a tohunga in that district. A number who visited this tobunga before Christmas, in the hope of being cured of diseases they were suffering from, have returned poorer in pocket aud no better in health. An influential local Maori says the young educated Native is doing his best amongst his people to kill this foolish superstition, but “tohungaism” has such a hold that the task is a hard, uphill one.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 941, 14 January 1911, Page 3
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109THE MEDICINE MAN. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 941, 14 January 1911, Page 3
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