PARIHAKA DESERTED.
Parihaka, the historic Maori pa, the scene thirty years ago of troublous times, and for years past of great native gatherings, will soon be merely a name, as it is rapidly becoming deserted. The death of Charles Waitara has completed the exodus that commenced after the demise of the prophets Tohu and Te Whiti. A few years ago every house, both,- "mansion" 'and whare, was.fully occupied, several billiard rooms, boardinghouses, etc., were in full swing, and the visitor could not help hut notice the signs- of, anknafion and.progress. The;Taranaki.News states that the Ministerial party who yisdited the village'on Monday were istruck with' the air of desolation that pervaded the plaice. The majority of houses are .unoccupied, and the whole population appeared to consist of two or three old .men, several, women and' a few children, who assembled on' the "mana-e." Asked as to the ahsenee of the men, one of the native onlookers remarked that they were away working. The voluntary breaking up of this communal system, as practised at Paninaka, is undoubtedly a splendid thing for the Maori, comments our contemporary.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10262, 14 June 1911, Page 4
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184PARIHAKA DESERTED. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10262, 14 June 1911, Page 4
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