FIFTY YEARS AGO

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 44, 15 June 1938, Page 2

FIFTY YEARS AGO

MOVEMENTS OF TE KCOTI Although the campaign against the followers of Te Kooti was ended in 18TL, when the Maori leader took reluge in the King Country, his subsequent movements were the cause of concern among Maoris and settlers oil the East Coast 50 years age. The following is an extract from the New Zealand Herald of June 9. 1888:

“In the Legislative Cbuncil. Mr Wahawaha asked whether the Government' would l take steps to check the frequent visits of r J c Kooti and his large following to the several until e districts of the Bast Coast, especially Opotiki. He said that Te Kooti generally travelled about accompanied by (jIX) or 700 followers, and was in the Intuit of asking other natives to give them food. -Mr Stevens answered that as Te Kooti was pardoned hoi was at liberty to visit the native districts if he lejt so inclined, but the Government would take such steps as would probably induce him to desist from the visits complained of.”