LAST OF MORIORIS
Only one Moriori of pure Wood survives in the Chatham Islands, according to Mr. A. Wl B. Powell, of the staff of the Auckland War Memorial Museum, who has returned from a visit of scientific.investigation to the island group (states the "N.Z. Herald"). This Moriori is the last of a native race which was the predecessor of the Maori in New Zealand. There was a fairly numerous Moriori population on the islands when they were discovered in 1791 by Lieutenant Broughton, commander of his Majesty's brig Chatham. The rapid decline of the race is' due chiefly to the invasion of the islands by Maoris from the mainland in 1835. Epidemics and famine ilso took their toll and the surviving remnant was gradually absorbed by inter-marriage. The population now numbers about 456, chiefly_ Maoris. •
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 63, 16 March 1933, Page 12
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136LAST OF MORIORIS Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 63, 16 March 1933, Page 12
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