THE MAORIS AND WOOL.
GOOD SEEJjREKS AND,DEFT HOLTiEKS." Ol all • the Domipion's. primary. indus 7 tries in which, tho Maori? take an active, part, the Natives; arc" most concerned with, the wool trade." • As shearers the Maoris are known all over- tfeis island.. In Hawke's Bay Maori shearers- abound: there- always appear to tie more Native than white men. shearing there. 1 At the shearing contest-in Poverty Bay and; Hawke's . Bay Maoris, preponderate. 'In"the. Wairarapa and in; Taranaki, too; they work in numerous ' The. advent. ;of : the- shearingmachine has- not embarrass;d them " at' aii. ;- •- - But - members of the Native race have gained a. footing in another branch of, the industry"; Maori' girls are'doing good jtork; in rolHSg the fleeces,.'and in some, districts , the, number of ' them employed in"tliis occupation, is. increasing. In some of, the Main iTruuk localities, the -Native gi'rlsV-kave done, very good work- at.-roll-ing; and tbeir-labour- for. this /purpose "is in demand. 4 s to tlic-. cxccution ol" their ■work, they are,, deft and generally pains r taking. " .
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1039, 31 January 1911, Page 8
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170THE MAORIS AND WOOL. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1039, 31 January 1911, Page 8
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