CHINAMAN’S PREDICAMENT.
A Chinaman was placed in a sad predicament at the Maori hui at Gisborne recently. While dinner, which was on a most lavish scale, was in progress, pakehas were admitted to the vast dining hall by one door, and Maoris by another, the rule being stringently observed. A bland and hungry-looking Chinaman approached the Maoris’ entrance, but was rejected by the burly doorkeeper, who, in a loud voice, expressed the opinion that “the gentleman from the East was no Maori.” The Celestial thereupon sought admittance at the other entrance, but was detained on the ground that “ him no pakeha ! ” How he ultimately solved the problem of dinner is an unknown quantity, and dinner was probably the same to him-
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1082, 5 April 1913, Page 4
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121CHINAMAN’S PREDICAMENT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1082, 5 April 1913, Page 4
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