TRAVELLERS SEE STRANGE THINGS.
Sir,—-Much interested and flattered as we, in common with our pakeha fellow fielders, mast feel at the sublime and almost poetical effusions of some unknown genius, who has made a trip to the Waitoa and Aroha Mountain, and written about it, still, I think the writer, who so freely criticizes our roads, made mostly by piivate subscriptions, should, if he has not already done so, send a chequo for a handsome amount to the Chairman.of the Waitoa Highway Board. It gives me much pain add that I, in common with all the elders of my tribe, are much scandalised at the way in which some travellers igaore the restraints of jour boasted civilization on arrival here. As an instance, only a week or two ago, two gentlemen (one of whom I am almost sure was your correspondent) from the south of Auckland, persisted in bathing in the hot springs at this place. One of them exposed his ankles, and the other, that part of bis legs where the calves ought to be, in the presence of a number of youthful females. -(Signed) HEMi Prjßr/. [Translated from the Maori by our interpreter.]
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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 740, 15 March 1877, Page 3
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195TRAVELLERS SEE STRANGE THINGS. Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 740, 15 March 1877, Page 3
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