CIVILISATION'S TORCH.
MAORIS IN THE NORTH. TE KAO FARM SCHEME. (By Telegraph.—Special' to "Star.") HOUHORA, Friday. "We consider that the northern peninsula is not strictly a part of New Zealand," said the paramount chief of Te Kao, Eru Iliaka, when welcoming the acting-Minister of Native Affairs, the Hon. F. Langstone, and his party to-day. "We consider that the civilised portion of New Zealand ends at Waipapakauri. Until the Te Kao farm scheme was started, the people were living in the same way as John the Baptist, on locusts and wild honey. As it was not considered right that we should subsist on that kind of diet, it was thought necessary that some other form of livelihood should be found, and so the development scheme was commenced. From that time he have endeavoured to bring the torch of civilisation to this wild part of the Dominion, land our efforts are still being made 'in that direction." •
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 25, 30 January 1937, Page 11
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