THE CLANNISH MAORI.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 09, 11 January 1908, Page 13

THE CLANNISH MAORI.

„ A well-known health officer (writes a country contemporary) recently received a telegram from a Maori kaitiga ' hear his heaxlquartres, sigfced by, say, "Jimmy Waitara," asking him to see a, sick child. Ho went, and on arrival at the village asked the first native ha saw where Jimmy Waftara could be seen. "Oh, he gone 'way Jong ,time'; he gone, Wangahui way," Was/th e reply. But this did not satisfy the inquirer, and ho proceeded a little further. "Jimmy Waitara," sqid the next native interrogated, "he used to live here, but he gone Ponoke now." "Fishy," said the doctotr, and then approached an old dame with the same query. "He not live here now, he liye in Christchurch," responded the lady. But the health officer had gone far enough. "Look here," he said, "one man saya he's gone to Wanganui, another to 'Ponoke,' and now you say Christchurch." Oh, I think I right, he gone Christchurch all right;" persisted the guileless native. "Well, I got a telegram from him to-day asking me to see hig baby." "Oh," with a complete change of intonation, "you be tocter. Jimmy Waitara here all right! I tink you policeman."