"Along with many other students of ■ Maori history, I claim that I can trace the ancestry of every Maori in New Zealand," said the Rev. H. J. Fletcher, in an address at Dunedin to a combined meeting of members of the New Zealand Historical Association (Otago branch) and of the Otago Institute of Pacific Relations. He claimed that every Maori living to-day descended- from the ancestry of Toi, who was believed to belong to the sairte generation as Tamatekapna. The present percentages of unmarried ■women in Britain between thirty and fifty years of age are stated to be the highest ever recorded, due in a great part to the losses of man-power due to the Great War. • Onions, potatoes, und tomatoes worth £10,000,000 .were, sent to.England, from Spain, France,, and the Channel Islands
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20334, 5 September 1931, Page 9
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