NATIVE OBSTRUCTION AT THAMES.
• A Snagging Party Turned Back.
[l)Y TELEGRAPH —OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
Thanks, this day. A snaogixo party sent by Mr Read, of this place, to clear about a mile- and a half of the Piako River, just above the junction of the Waitoa Kiver, so as to allow him to get sleepers up there in dry weather, was on Thursday turned back by orders of Winikerei, chief of the Ngatipaoa tribe. No violence was used,but the natives stated that had not Savage^ half-casto,been with them, the party would not have been let off so easily. The natives do not object to them snagging most of the river, but would not let them touch one log lying right across the stream, and.which they say is tapu. This, howover, is only a quibble, as the tapu has been taken off by one of tlio natives years ago cutting a hole in the log.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 4349, 21 April 1884, Page 2
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