AN ALL-BLACK HOLIDAY.
Perhaps it may interest readers at home to know how the natives on the Iland enjov tuemse’ves in their spare time, and hr.-w curiously they conduct themselves on holidays. Eieiy Sund-'.y morning they gather together at some appointed place—usually one of the mines—and prepare for their weekly mnreh out. (I have wen as many as six hundred at one meeting.) They arc all dres=od very funnily. Some have soldiers’ old jackets; others football jersevs; while others. ,i«;iin, wear little more than fl'ctr smiles’ Most of them have an instrument 01 some sort, in: hiding cheap concertinas, melodeons, tambourines, tin-whistles’ and other such classical instruments. Those who cannot afford the luxury of
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 167, 1 July 1911, Page 2 (Supplement)
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114AN ALL-BLACK HOLIDAY. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 167, 1 July 1911, Page 2 (Supplement)
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