THE POLYNESIANS.
SPREAD INTO PACIFIC. Gradually travelling eastward, the Polynesians had, over a period of centuries, established themselves in the islands of the Pacific, said SurgeonCommander I?. Buddie during an address delivered last evening at the Auckland Institute and Museum at a meeting of the anthropological and Maori race section of the Auckland Institute and Museum. It was generally agreed by those who had given the "migration of Polynesian races much study, he said, that the Polynesians had spread into the Pacific, not by means of any postulated land bridge, but by means of their own locomotion. Anyone who had given tho question study* could have little doubt of their ultimate Aryan origin. All tho available evidence indicated that the Polynesians came by way of the East Indies from Asia, and the place names found in various islands marked, with a fair degree of certainty, the route of their migrations.
Mr. A. D. Mead gave a short address on the technicalities of Maori nomenclature, of Tongariro National Park and parts of the east coast.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 198, 22 August 1935, Page 10
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