Men of the West XIX
(By
W. P. HEINZ)
height with a bright face showing the tattoo marks of the high-caste Maori. “Too hot!” A contemporary wrote: “He was a splendid mimic and it was amusing how he could take off the Government survey partv at that time laying off the Brunner railway line. He would stick up two posts some distance apart, taking a sight from one to the other. He then motioned with his hand to change a post position to right or left in the manner of surveyors. He always finished up his different antics by using his only two words of English: ‘Too hot! Too hot’ ” Werita was shrewd in money matters. The following incident is from the pages of the “Grev River Argus”: Poll tax A shipload of Chinese goldminers arrived at Greymouth. They were to travel to the diggings ata Maori Gully, Arnold Valley. When passing in their usual manner, single file, in front of the Mawhera Pa they were stopped by Werita and his hapu. The meeting of the two
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33965, 4 October 1975, Page 11
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177Men of the West XIX Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33965, 4 October 1975, Page 11
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