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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12751, 6 January 1936, Page 2

The devotion which Maori women show towards their children is well known to New Zealand / people, but the action of one particular mother in the Ohautira settlement,, on Raglan Harbor’ is worthy of special mention. Unable to purchase warm clothing' for.her children she set -herself the task of. learning to spin wool from which she would be able to knit the required garments.-At-the nearest women’s institute at Te Uku, about seven miles’ distant-; there; was a spinning wheel. Notwithstanding the fact that the-road was-in a-very bad estate:, <■ she .rode j backwards - .and forward si to the institute on horseback ■ until she :■ was ■ •'proficient ; 5 with the wheeli After saving carefully for some time, nslio; purchased' her town spinning wheel, and has now taught her children and other Maoris in the settlement how t-o use it. She has provided, warm, clothing for her children, and by means of the -spinning wheel other Maori’ women have - followed her. example.