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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 23 April 1935, Page 4

“This country owes more to Mr Elsdon Best than is commonly realised, and it is always a. matter of regret to me that a man who spent so much time, so much patience and so much learning and devotion to preserve the Maori history and mythology did not receiver proper recognition from the Government of this country,” said Bishop Bennett during a short talk on the ancient Maori gods at a concert in Hastings, Best was one of those, the bishop added, who should have received the highest recognition from his countrymen, for the record of books and other writings that he had left behind him would be of inestimable value not to this generation alone but to every generation to come. No native race, he said, had had its pagan beliefs so carefully and copiously recorded as the Maoris, who had been fortunate in such chroniclers as Best, Smith, Buick, Cowan and others. The bishop pointed out that there was a very close resemblance between one of the Maori myths that he related and a part of the mythology of Buddha, and said that there were innumerable analogies between Maori and Egyptian mythology. penetrated HIS LUNGS. The. man -with the rifle toolc careful aim, but inadvertently coughed as ho pulled the trigger. The shot mis'Sed. Immediately ho took a Pulmona, the healing vapours penetrated the bronchial passages, and instantly relieved the troublesome cough. Beneficial for bronchitis, influenza, etc. Get a tin today. 1/-, 1/6 and 2/6—Pulmona s.— Advt.