FIFTY YEARS AGO

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22867, 23 October 1937, Page 8

FIFTY YEARS AGO

MAORI CHIEF TE KOOTI The Maori chief Te Kooti. wlu> with his followers massacred a number Europeans in Poverty Bay in 1808. was still a powerful iigure among tlie Maoris half a century a no. and the report of a proposed visit by him to 11 Gtshorna district was the signal toi ai outburst by the" local residents. , ' following account appeared in Zi'.AI.AM) Hkkai.d of October -f. lv "'; "It is stated on good authority tha several of the most prominent clue s in this district are getting up a gcc:it feast to welcome To Kooti on a \ i* l to Poverty May, the locality ol the meeting being \Vaiotahi. close to Chamber's homestead, ten miles Irom y ,ls " borne. There is intense indignation, especially among those whose relatives were massacred by Te Kooti. Seveia have vehemently declared that will shoot him like a dog. Great are entertained that the threat will l,e Carried out. The settlers are, anxious that the Government should n>e its influence to prevent the meeting. •- large house has already been iurnishe< for the To Kooti reception, and supplies of food are being collected.