PLAYING THE GAME
“When the Maoris were at loggerheads with the pakeha, the pakeha never accused them of not playing the game,” said Sir Maui the civic farewell to the MaorA footballers at Wellington yesterday. “I remember on one occasion when, it is stated, the pakeha ran out of amunition. The battle stopped, and the Maoris sent down ammunition so that it could be continued. At another time the pakeha ran out of food, and the Maoris sent along' loads of kumaras and other edibles. You see the Maoris did not fight with men with empty stomachs, and they knew the pakeha could not fight without ammunition. But the Maoris also thought a great deal of the pakeha. Once a pakeha warship shelled a Maori pah with time-fuse shells. The shells, it was noticed, did not explode until some time after they landed. The Maoris were short of ammunition, so they unscrewed the top of each shell as it arrived, and soon they had all the ammunition they ' wanted. The Maoris thought the pakehas were playing the game.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2441, 15 June 1922, Page 2
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178PLAYING THE GAME Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2441, 15 June 1922, Page 2
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