PAGES FROM (NEVzE AnG HIsTorv Vat |v ~ womtk ""5n a7a; Cutting Down the Flagstaff at Kororareka Soon after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, Hone Heke, one of the most courageous and chivalrous of the early Maori leaders, desired to show his resentment at the growing influence of the white men over his people: Under the pretext of a personal insult; in the dark early hours of July 8th, 1844, Hone Heke with a band of followers commenced fring their muskets in the young town of Kororareka, or Russell as it ig now known: They made their way to the flagstaff on a hill overlooking the town and the Bay of Islands: Here they performed a war dance: ROLL YOUR cut down the flagstaff and carried away the signal balls: Before their grievances were fnally settled, the determined natives cut down the CIGARETTES flagstaff no Jess than four times: WITH Jilxx r THE New Zealand Cigarette Tobacco FiNB CuT 00 COARS B Cut 96 4 'AVafw eie er7 CIGARETTE TOBACCO IfRN Push This SIvfR END
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 159, 10 July 1942, Unnumbered Page
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176Unnumbered Page Advertisement 1 New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 159, 10 July 1942, Unnumbered Page
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