NEWS AND NOTES.
A company has been formed in Auckland to search for the treasure iu the General Grant, wrecked many years ago at the Auckland Islands. TV shareholders are very sanguine of success.
The tangi, particularly the prolonged taugi, breeds laziness, dirt and frequently disease, but, asks the Auckland Observer, can the custom be stopped ? A primitive race clings to old customs and Government intervention wouldn’t in the least avail to prevent it, neither can the native clergy, doctors, and parliamentarians hinder the evil effects of tangis, though they speak against them and deplore their increase. They assist in depleting the race and they will cease to exist as a custom when the race ceases to exist.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1024, 16 November 1912, Page 4
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118NEWS AND NOTES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1024, 16 November 1912, Page 4
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