THE MAORI LANGUAGE
Sir,-Let us have some commonsense on the subject of pronounciation, as well as meaning, of our Maori place-names. The interpretation and pronunciation should be based on facts, and facts are ignored almost entirely by most modern Maori authorities. A fact is rightly referred to as a tin-tack, for it pains certain parts of our anatomy if sat or trod upon. Tread on a tin-tack and you are liable to a fit of frenzied lunacy. Remind Maori scholars that all that is known about the ancient Maori was learned from self-interested claimants in our native land court, remind them again that not one name on the map was placed there by any other than the early missionaries, surveyors, and European explorers, who knew no Maori and they turn and rend you. Why be spellbound? Typists and printers never are. /
MAUI
(Auckland),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 513, 22 April 1949, Page 5
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