Maoris in the South
HE importance of the Southern ‘" Maoris is usually overshadowed in accounts of native history by. the warlike deeds of more forceful figures in the North. But in one of the talks connected with the Otago Centennial year, Barbara Angus, M.A., endeavoured to give listeners a fuller picture of two local chiefs, Taiaroa and Tuhawaiki. The first of these, who is mainly remembered because his name was given to a headland at the entrance to Otago Harbour, did not show up well in this talk, his early ascendancy over his people being counterbalanced by his later degeneracy. Tuhawaiki, tall, handsome, intelligent admirer of the white man, with his English mannerisms and his adoption of profanity learned from the whalers, was a more romantic if somewhat rakish figure; he did not shirk responsibility in war, and Miss Angus mentioned the occasion when the famous Te Rauparaha was nearly captured by him in a
skirmish. He made his weight felt as mediator in disputes connected with the proclamation of British sovereignty in the South Island, As the speaker pointed out, the days of glory of the Southern Maori cannot lightly be forgotten by descendants of the original settlers,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 437, 7 November 1947, Page 19
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199Maoris in the South New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 437, 7 November 1947, Page 19
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