MAORI LURE.
The Surveyor-General (Mr Percy Smith) was a passenger by the s.s, Upolu for Barotonga and Tah'ti and other islands in the South Seas, on a holiday trip. Mr Smith is at present engaged in writing an account of the origin of the Maori race and their migration from Hawaiki, their traditional birth place. There are several gaps in the story which he desires to fill up, and may probably be able to do so during his trip. Mr Smith, so far as his researches go, places Hawaiki at the island of Baiatea, and not the Sandwich Islands, as is the general belief. lie expects to return about the end of September, and his narrative will appear in the Journal of the Polynesian Research Society, Wellington. Mr Smith has received some valuable information from Mr John Webster, of Opononi, Hokianga, who was in the North early in "the forties," concerning Maori traditions and lore, and who was also oruising in the yacht Wanderer'(Ben Boyd's in 1850-1, in the South Pacific.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXIII, Issue 6079, 15 July 1897, Page 4
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