MO TE NGAKAU KAKAMA.
(1) Tohea ko te tohe i te kai!Persevere strenuously, like as you do in eating! (2) Na te waewae i kimi!—Sought for by the legs. (3) He iti te mokoroa na ana i kakati te kahikatea!—The (wood) grub is little, but it gnawed the 44 kahikatea ” (white pine). (4) Ma te kanohi miromiro e kite!—To be found by the miromiro (bird —Petroca toitoi). (5) He kai iana ta te tou e hoake?—Will the posterior give you food? (6) E rua tau ruru; e rua tau wehe; e rua tau mutu; e rua tau kai!— years of drought; two years of scarcity; two years of failure; two years of plenty!
(7) Tuangia te ururua kia tupu whakaritorito te harakeke. Clear off the entanglements that the young shoots of the flaxhush may grow vigorously.
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Toa Takitini, Issue 21, 1 April 1923, Page 9
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136MO TE NGAKAU KAKAMA. Toa Takitini, Issue 21, 1 April 1923, Page 9
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