WHO ARE THE MAORIS?

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 89, 22 April 1913, Page 7

WHO ARE THE MAORIS?

Dr. NEWMAN’S NEW BOOK. The long-expected book by Or. A. K. Newman on the origin of the Maori race, lias beep issued by Messrs Whitcombe and Tombs, and we have to acknowledge receipt of a copy of this interesting aiifk important work from that firm. The author claims that Ids book, which, is entitled: “Who Are the Maoris?” contains evidence that cannot be criticised away, and that it establishes (1) that the Maoris came from' Northern India, (2) that their cradle land, Hawaiki. was India, (3) that he has recovered the lost history of the Maori race, (4) that liS has conclusively proved the route of the Great Migration from the banks of the Indus to New Zealand, (5) that the Maoris are an Aryan Mongolic people, but dominantly Caucasian. The handsome volume is dedicated to Mr Percy Smith, in grateful remembrance' if bis generous help and most valuable advice','”''and is the result of further quest and the following up of clues given by Mr Smith in his work, “Hawaiki,” in which Mr Smith traces the Maori positively to the islands of the Malay Archipelago. Though he did not set out to write a book. Dr. Newman tells us his book is indeed the,, outcome of his quest, though not the . oMwUld it. f ]t|ie boolf indicates an immense amount of wyrk and will 'deservedly ’take prominence; a,pno of authority. Price 7s |>d. Wlutcombe ‘ and ySutbS, Chmtchurbh. :(j(>’'■'ipfi--.i):j.T vH; 1