SURVEYS OBSTRUCTED.
. s EJECTED BY MAORIS. \ FRACAS AT NGATIRA. ( ! (3j Telegraph—Press Association.) ' I i ROTORUA, Friday. Thy cM-time Maori practicp of ob-sfruc-tinp survey.; was revived at Ngatira thi-s week, when a party of surveyors v.s.-. engaged in laying out sites for hotitcu. Certain members of the tribe objected. land about a doz-on men and women de- i jscended on the surveyors, captured the i theodolite and proceeded to eject them '< from the land. Outnumbered, the cur- j 1 vejore retired to a Government reserve i adjoining, from whence they were able ? to complete the work. ' I The Maoris contented themselves * thereafter with volfeye of most abusive ] 'epithete, accompanied by frightful ' 'grimaces and insulting gf.itures, which 1 i vert replied to with vim by the Maoris ' lin the surveying party. The incident j f j war? t!:t" outcome of difTerencee of ten ' \\ ears' standing. i _________ (
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 50, 27 February 1915, Page 10
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