On his recent visit to India, the Bishop of Aotearoa, the Rt. Rev. F. A. Bennett, was given some evidence corroborating in a rather remarkable way the belief of scientists that the Polynesian peoples, including the Maoris came originally from Southern Asia. In a lecture in Auckland the bishop said that when he had occasion to mention the Arawa tribe he was told that there was a people of exactly the same name in India, and he found later two other names of groups or tribes very like those of two other tribes in the Bay of Plenty. A few common nouns in Maori also had Sanskrit equivalents in sound and meaning.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 August 1939, Page 6
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