THE MAORI IN WESTLAND
Sir,-Your heading is somewhat misleading, as the Buller River or Kawatiri is in Nelson not Westland. I thank Mr. Morpeth for his reference and agree with him as. to the difficulties in the way of studying Maori place names, Dr. H. W. Williams, Bishop of Waiapu, was one of the foremost students of the Maori lan- -
guage and history. He warned against the practice of giving meanings to all names, as one would be frequently misled. "So many of the place names," he said, "take their meaning from some legend connected with the particular place, so to take the literal meaning might be entirely wrong."
CANTNEL
(Gisborne).
(The province of Nelson disappeared in 1875.-Ed. )
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 504, 18 February 1949, Page 5
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118THE MAORI IN WESTLAND New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 504, 18 February 1949, Page 5
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