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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 84, 7 January 1928, Page 5

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An amusing story about Dr. Maunsell, one of out early Maori missionaries, who was quartered in the ’forties and ’fifties at Pork Waikato and Kohanga, was resurrected the other day by an old gentleman (says the Auckland “Star’). In the early ’sixties Dr. Maunsell preached one Sunday morning to the natives at Taupo. He told them that the Lord loved a good husbandman, and helped him to prosper, but if he did any work on Sundays his crops would fail. Te Wera, a local chief, listened with great attention, but being of the clan whose nature it is to test things out rather than take them on trust, he planted a few rows of potatoes that afternoon. A few months, later he met Dr. Maunsell in Tauranga, and begged him to come to Taupo. He was so earnest in the expression of his wishes that Dr. Maunsell went, although a visit there was not in his itinerary at the time. When he arrived Te Wera showed him a kit of remarkably fine potatoes, which were duly admired and praised. Then le Wera said: “The things you tell the Maoris that are true the Maoris like all right. When you tell’things that are not true, the Maori no like. I plant them potatoes on a Sunday, and I hoe them every Sunday.” it is feared that during the past few years the bidibidi has been spreading in some of the back country (states the “Poverty Bay Herald’). The- reason for this has been the reduction of the numbers-of the stock as a result of the drought two years ago. Since then many of the farmers have not been able to bring their' flocks and herds up to the original strength, with the result that (luring the intervening period some of the hills have been understocked, and the bidibidi allowed to spread. Heavy stocking, and for better results the addition of artificial fertiliser, will be the means of remedying this matter to a certain extent, and now that the majority of farms are regaining their original strength in stock, it is thought that the spread of the bidibidi will be held in check, and perhaps the area affected reduced. So far the wool has not been affected by the bidibidi, but as it is now coming to the seeding stage, it is feared that some of the late clips, delayed on account of the wet shearing season, will have a percentage of wool that has come into contact with the seed. Farmers usually calculate on having their shearing finished before the seeding stage of the bidibidi is reached, but they have been unfortunate this’Year on account of the weather cohdition*.