HE RAPU WHANAUNGA.
TENEI kua tukua ake to tatou hoa a Wiremu Kingi, no Peria, Mangonui. He tamaiti rangatira, he tamaiti pai. Kaore he kupu kino, kaore he whakatoi i roto i tona waha. He kata tana utu mo te korero kino a te tangata. Te kainga o tana tangata i pono ai ia ki tona aitua ko Te Mamaku wahi o Rotorua. He whare-porini (boarding-house) i wera i te ahi. Ko te ruma i moe ai ia ite puro o runga. Na te haruru ote inura ote ahi, me te mo te tanukutanga o etahi wahi o te whare ka mokowhiti ake i tona moenga, ka rere i te ao-o-te-rangi kia kite i te whenua mehemea kei whea. Ka tan kite whenua. Na te auetanga o te waha katahi ka mohiotia, he tangata ano hoki tera. Ka haria iho ki te Hohipera ite Pukeroa. He wa roa ite Hohipera ka moe iie moenga o ana tupuna. Na konei nga uiui a nga Kai-whakahaere o te Hohipera mehemea e mohiotia ana taua tangata. Tona ingoa c karangarangatia ana ko Kewha Kingi. Engari te ingoa tika ko Wiremu Kingi. Na to koutou iwi mokai na Ngati-Whakaue i tiki kia takoto i roto i te kopu o tona tupuna o Tamatekapua, kia mihia e nga hapu o Te Arawa. 1 tae mai ano hoki ona hoa Maori, pakeha. kite mihi ki te tangi ki a ia. Kia ora koutou i roto i a Karaiti Ihu. —No Pirika Tv Miroi Ohinemutu, Oketopa 5, 1925.
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Toa Takitini, Issue 52, 1 November 1925, Page 331
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251HE RAPU WHANAUNGA. Toa Takitini, Issue 52, 1 November 1925, Page 331
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