KAITAIA

Northern Advocate, 5 February 1936, Page 2

KAITAIA

It is said that Maoris, while kind to their wives and children, have not the same consideration for animals as the white man. An instance of indifference towards the suffering of a horse came under the notice of a Kaitaia resident recently. A Maori riding a horse which was lame and obviously suffering pain in one foot, was met as he approached the town. Fearing that if he rode into town he might, as he remarked, meet Mr Mark Thornell, with the most dire consequences, the Maori tied, his horse up in some tea-tree before he reached the police station, which he had to pass, and walked to the town. The Maori was well educated, and superior to the majority of his race, and, indeed, to many Pakehas, but the finer side of his nature was apparently not touched by: the sufferings of a dumb animal. A week later the Maori was seen riding the same horse, but by this time the lameness had disappeared.

Street Metalled.

The Kaitaia Town Board has recently had Te Reinga Street metalled, so that there are now between The Bungalow and Grigg's Corner, four streets connecting Commerce Street with Pukepoto Road. The experiment made some time ago in laying a footpath from the Central Boardinghouse to Grigg’s Corner with shale, has been highly successful. The surface is as good as asphalt, and the only fault that can be found is in the narrowness of the metalled path and the encroachment of the paspalum, which no method yet devised has been able to check.