Humorously apologising for the language he spoke, Dr. H. T. Steams, of the United States Geological Survey, told during the course of a lecture in Wellington of an amusing encounter with a Maori youth in the Urewera .Country. The Maori had listened with awed interest to what Dr., Stearns had to tell him about America, and he finally asked how much longer Dr. Stearns would be staying here. Having been told that the visit was only a short one, the Maori youth remarked tnat it was a pity, for had Dr. Stearns remained a bit longer he might have I6amt to talk good English, and he, added a disparaging remark about whoever had, been responsible teaching him his English. Wellington Evening Post.
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Matamata Record, Volume XVI, Issue 1443, 20 July 1933, Page 7
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