MAORI TWINS' NAMES
GREECE AND CRETE (0.C.) _ ROTORUA, Monday Exercising the genius of the Maori race for commemorating events in personal and place names, a parent at Uotoiti has named twins Greece and Crete. Another mother in the district lias christened a child with the name of the ship in which the father travelled as a member of the Maori Battalion. A further example in originalitv is in the naming ci a .Maori child Caustic because of an early attempt of the baby to eat some of the substance.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24083, 30 September 1941, Page 6
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