DISTRESS THE NATIVES.
FAILURE'OF POI'ATO CROP. : .'(BY-mEflhAl'H.r-rRr.SS ASSOCIATION.) , " Auckland, May 11. ... ; According;, to Mr. J. Enlrican, tho Maoris of the Wajkato and King Country havo to faco sovero'distress in tho winter season. Ho states torday.that last winter, from Huiitly down to "tho Heads, tho Natives were in a bad. way. :• As tlie result of what ho saw pn a 'jvisit to tlio AVaikato 1 ho was induced to cpl-, -lcct; clothes and food for them. Out of- 23'. children boni at Ofton, between Mercer'and Ciiurclullj the winter beforo last,. Mr. Entricqn stated , that ,21 had died. This mortality was, largely due to cold and exposure i and to want 'of food. Last winter again, ntany of the Natives, owing to the floods, ' were well nigh drowned, and scvoral more of their children died from tho causes stated. Following''the floods tlio staple product of 'the. NatiVes, tlio potato, on which thoy : so largely depend, was a failure last soason, so tliafc now, at the beginning of another win- : .tor;' the"-Maoris, aro faced with the problem of liow to live.. Mr. Entrican acldod that ho also heard-tliero was distress/among tho' 1 King Country .'Natives owing to tho failure ' of tlio potato crop thcro. ■
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 195, 12 May 1908, Page 9
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