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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 3, 6 April 1916, Page 5

A rather quaiqt suggestion was tnade at Rotorua this week by a man who knows the Urewera Country and the Urewera Maori, in regard to the armed police expedition after Rua, the “wanted” Maori prophet and sly grogseller. “I would undertake,”' said he, “to have the whole boiling of them rounded up inside a week. All you have to do is to-start a picture show up. at Te Whaiti and I would guarantee that in less than four days ybil would have the whole of the Urcwera’s; big and little, long-haired and close-crop-ped, sly grog-seller and sly grog drinker, safe in the pa. I would not be sua*’ prised if Rua himself didn’t down from the hills. They have neveT* seen a picture show, and the attraction would have been irresistible. Four policemen could have done the job nicely,”