The Feilding Star Oroua and Kiwitea Counties' Gazette THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 8, 1921. THE WHIRLIGIG OF TIME.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 4389, 8 September 1921, Page 2

The Feilding Star Oroua and Kiwitea Counties' Gazette THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 8, 1921. THE WHIRLIGIG OF TIME.

Yesterday whs the 53rd anniversary ol the battle of To Ngutu o te Manu. considered the most disastrous reverse o." the Maori War of the late 'GO'a inflicted upon the British forces. It in mostly ratnombered because in thai battle Yon Tempsky and other British captains wore Killed. Just 21 years ngo many young .Maoris were keen to fight with the British in the Boer War, and some did fight as members of the ten contingents sent from New Zealand to South Africa. Genera! Smuts, to-day Premier of the BritishBoor I'nion of Africa, commanded forces operating against the New ZeaLinders. Yesterday a team of Maoris fought tho South Africans on the football field in Napier. It was a sreat game, by the way, worthy of the contestants. Members of both teams took part on the British side in the recent Great War against the common enemy of the world's liberty, Germany. Truly, time's changes are as remarkable in these most modern us in ancient days.