HONGIS AND HANG’S

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 873, 17 January 1930, Page 8

HONGIS AND HANG’S

§ll'.—‘ V The reported discovery of 6. “11011851" on Rangitoto at first puzzled me. .:i a. couple of people——pakeha. or Mmkoui chose the summit of our “grim Q guardian of the gateway" for the Mg; caress known as te hongi. Why Mg your contributor regard it as an WE aeological find? \Ve have seen in M= illustrated papers photographs Offi Lain high-placed personages lndll , in this form of greeting with chm—sl ing Maori maidens at Rotorua 83;" elsewhere. and no newspaper got v , with headlines to raise a sensation-‘- ‘, understand that members of our " ‘ versity Hongi Club are personqlly " ‘ ‘23" cerned over the misuse 0! this and their View is a. correct one. ' ' *3 was probably meant was that. a“h “ gaff ——na.tive oven—had been found- = ’ . is a. glaring instance of carelesan ; 5,; regard to the use of vowel sound! 1 I the need or newspaper writers M a least a. littie knowledge of Maori. I that your morning contemporary 3." 3133 same mistake in its report 0‘ 21,. lscovery on Rangitoto. 7: M. B. scum)... .[The letters “0" and “a” when “m a. flowing hand" frequently * errors of this kind. But surely H New Zealanders know that, “te *’ ‘l3-: is the pressing of noses in greetin‘w the article mentioned “hangi” (an o ~fi. . was obviously the word intend Editor The Sun.] a 4;.-