MAORIS AS THEY ARE
SKETCHES FROM MAORILAND. By Hamilton Grieve. Illustrations by A. S. Paterson. Foreword by Dr. A. J. Harrop. Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd. If you like Maoris you will like this book. If you. have a conscience about them you will be glad that you have read it. You will welcome it if your only desire is to escape for an hour or two from the war. It is entertaining and it is illuminating. Mrs. Grieve and her husband spent five years. in the extreme north of New Zealand in charge of a native school. They were not only teachers but health officers, doctors, nurses, registrars of births and of deaths. More than anything ‘else they were -humble, interested, and often amused observers of the Maori as he has become since he left the pa and entered the cowshed. No Maori will be offended by any of the things Mrs. Grieve says about her experiences, and no Pakeha will read them without laughing. But it will be affectionate laughter. Even when the subject is cleanliness and the im-
mediate task "war upon the wily. kuta™ (pediculus capitis) the pen is as kind as the comb. As kind as the copying out of this composition (written by Taki im Standard III.): The name of my hors is Tuki. Their is not much left. of her tail, it looks as « if the cows had chood it, but probly he wor it off herself. Scrattchin. threw fencis. He will not go quick. Unless we have a pin on thend of a tsik then he gose mitey quick. You may of course weary of Mrs? Grieve’s sustained brightness, which is not so much forced as tireless. But you will not weary of her story, and you will close her book wondering, as she does, precisely how important in life "all modern conveniences" are,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 16, 13 October 1939, Page 41
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