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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1847, 31 July 1907, Page 29

The Maori was not hard put to it to find variety in diet before the days of huge departmental stores, as Dr Newman explained to an interested audience at Newtown last night. He dredged excellent oysters and consumed quantities of dog soup, which was very fattening. Most white people were very nice, so the Maori epicure of olden times considered, the special flavour so palatable being salt, of which white men eat a great deal. White sailors were not so desirable as food, because they chewed tobacco, and thus affected their flavour. Anybody could get a meal by making war on his neighbours, and so they got plenty of fresh meat, and lived happily. A cablegram from Sydney records the death of the Rev. William Clarke, Methodist minister, aged eighty years,