MAORI BOYS SEE THE SEA FOR FIRST TIME
(P.A.) NAPIER, Aug. 30. Two Maori boys from an inland district who were taking part in a Hawke’s Bay primary schools’ tournament recently saw the sea for the first time. /Their reactions on first sight of tile grand sweep of Hawke’s Bay were of speechless incredibility, delight, and a certain element of fear. “She’s big all right,” said one boy writing home. “Bigger even than Taupo. It’s just as wet as Taupo, only salt. Ships sail on it, too, right over the edge. People go on them, all over the place, Bui I’d rather be in Taupo.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22730, 31 August 1948, Page 6
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