MAORI PLACE NAMES.
Sir,-In your issue of December 3, it is stated by W. T. Morpeth that "kawatere is one of the names of the New Zealand parrakeet." It would be interesting to know his authority for this statement. Tregear gives three Maori words for the "parroquet," namely, kakariki, powhaitere and porere. Mr. Elvy, of the Lands Department, says pareke was the name given by the South Island Maoris for a species of parroquet. J. R. Grigg writes in his book Murchison, "When Heaphy and Spooner asked their Maori guides the name of the stream flowing out of Rotoiti, they replied, "Ko Awatere," which is translated, "This is rapid river." The explorers then wrote on their map the word as it sounded to them, "Kawatiri." This then is the accepted Maori name of the Buller. P. J. O’Regan supports this meaning.
CANTNELL
(Gisborne).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 497, 31 December 1948, Page 5
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