MAORI PLACE NAMES
Sir-wWith regard to the note by R.S.D. on Maori Place dVames in Buller County, there is no doubt that the author’s Maori friend was right in insisting that "Kawatere" is the correct rendering of the name of the Buller river. "Kawatere" is one of the names: of the New Zealand parrakeet, a beautiful little green-coloured native bird, common enough in our forests 50 years ago. The other name, by which it was known in the North Island is "Kakariki.". There is no word "Kawatiri" in the Maori language. :
W. T.
MORPETH
(New Plymouth). |
Sir,-Apparently R.S.D., whose review of G. G. M. Mitchell’s "Maori Place Names in Buller County" appears in your issue of November 12, thinks that Buller County is in Westland. For his information, Buller County was in Nelson before there was a Westland, and has been there ever since.
J. F. D.
PATTERSON
(Gisborne).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 493, 3 December 1948, Page 17
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149MAORI PLACE NAMES New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 493, 3 December 1948, Page 17
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