HONE PHILOSOPHISES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2338, 6 October 1921, Page 2

HONE PHILOSOPHISES.

Tenakoe, Milta Edita. Good morning, Hone. I notice you have a bad cold,

Tat right. I peon down to see to Springbloke match, and get te worry bad.cold. Rain all te time, and Iloue and twenty tousand more pally roonatik get wet right enup. So you saw the famous match, eh?

You better pelieve it! Plenty people couldn’t see te match alongside me, but Hone know te trick. Repecca gif mete piece dried shark. Werra, I put te shark in te pocket my overcoat, and 1 get plenty room in te train and at te match. On te coach, Fred Rout terra me he smell some oil burnin’ in te car, and he keep smellin’, but Hone newer tell Fred what he got in his pocket, isn’t it ? Hamucra terra mete Kawana might he come to Foxton make some money for to pesaar. Wlnit te pesaar, Milta Edita? Well, Hone, it is an effort to raise money for" the church. The ladies ,

devote a lot of time in making up fancy goods and other useful articles which are exhibited on a given date, and are exchanged for money. Tat te way to pay te parson 1 ? Oh, noj the money is used to improve the buildmg, and provide for other necessary maintenance.

I link te boh in, te best way. If te karakia le good ling, werra, te man lie gif le money for te karakia vvitout buy te shirt for the waliine and te tamaiti. When he buy all to taonga he not gif to the karaika, is it?

I dunno pout tat. Rook here. Spose Igo te races. I pay te gate see te horses run, and might I lose on te totalisator, and might I win. But I pay to see te races. If Igo to te karaikai, hear Ilanmera get t<» korero pout te Pipiln, and Lie good man for tat, and feel werry happy, 1 like to gif some my money to te karakia. I not want taonga for te money. I werry happy for what llamuera terra me, and gif te money :<> te karakia.

You believe in free will offerings for the church, Hone? Knliore lifohio. You know Rntnna? He te good man, isn’t it? lie know all pout, te Pipila. He not frighten terra te people he must lif le good life. He not take te money, but be terra te people —more people fill all te church here —you gif te money te poor people buy te kai and le clothes, I not want te money. _ But Rntnnn is a rich man, Hone, .iml the ministers must live, like .>!her people. I know all pout tat, but all le Maori people lie put up te karakia werry quick, suppose Ratana terra him. If (e people like te karakia, werra, he must pay just like he pay for te race, te football, and te long beer. If he don’t like it, he not pay, and tat te way te pesaar. No good talk te bally humbug to Hone. So long; I goin’ to get bottle Wood peppermint from Poukama.