AT ROTORUA
Mother camped by a river near Rotorua once, and just nearby was a Maori pa. One day when she was busy cooking she missed my sister Pat. She hunted everywhere, for she was worried as the river was, so deep. Happening to glance over at the pa she saw baby Pat with some little Maori children. One was the same size as Pat and was very dark and our Pat was very fair./ Pat hiid evidently noticed the difference in their colour as she was looking curiously at the little Maori. ' Little, wee Maori children sing as soon as they can talk, mother says, and there were five or six of them, from one and a half years, who used to sit on the riverbank and harmonize.—Polly Flinders (»), Eastbourne.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 133, 29 February 1936, Page 23
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131AT ROTORUA Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 133, 29 February 1936, Page 23
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