MAORI "TOMO-KAI"
l>iik U ''. l " st , of tlle Cambridge fern 'PI 1 ISf,< to have these of various sizes, i r mostly made on the ridges. L iounil several in the deep bush. Some e lmed with pungas, and four 'ugtlis ot pungas around the hole, to the earth from falling in, with a • it. or -Ut. opening. They were regular '•i i-tiaps to cattle. You would often it .1 dead beast. Once 1 found two bi< r M'arlmgs in the same hole. The holes " ( 'e Idled in as they were found; it u.ls easy digging soil. Galloping after tattle one (lay my pony fell into one. ' ll \d,\, it was not \cry deep, and we on \ got a■ iright. Eern used to grow up out of the holes, making them verv deceiving. Fifty years ago, a Maori ■nurch bazaar was held at Kaiapoi; a ng junk ot fern-root, bread was ex'V. i* i som °tliing like chewed ptessed tobacco. R. C. 'J'nnELKELD.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21639, 3 November 1933, Page 13
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