"WIWI."
„ Sir >- With reference to the word wiwi, as one fairly conversant with Maori, I have no doubt that the w<L' is, and has always been, the Maori name of the common rush that springs W%, our New Zealand paddocks and elsewhere on damp land, and also of the coram*,, long tussock grass that grows in aburid ance on the plains of the higher par t s 0 f New Zealand. Puataata Grace Tokaanu. ■
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21233, 13 July 1932, Page 12
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