INDIA AND THE MAORIS
His contention that India is the home of the Maori people was dealt with in an address at Waipukurau on Wednesday night by the Bishop of Aotearoa, the Rt. Rev. F. A. Bennett, says the "Herald-Tribune." The Bishop spoke on his recent visit to India as New Zealand delegate to the international conference of Christians held near Madras. Several Hawaikis were spoken of by the Maoris, and students of Maori origins were now beginning to believe that one of these Hawaikis was in India, said Bishop Bennett. The "Big Hawaiki" was probably Borneo and "The Long Hawaiki" Sumatra. Arawa, the name of a Maori tribe, and the name, too, of one of Ahe original canoes on the voyage to New Zealand, he had found was the name of a tribe in India also. There were other similarities in names, and many legends and much of the mythology and tradition of the two races were identical. The migration to New Zealand was believed to have gained its first impetus somewhere about the beginning of the Christian era.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 76, 31 March 1939, Page 11
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