MERE PEKA V ATIRIA HAUWAHO.
Sir,— -In your report of this case yesterday you said that I had fceen fined. Such is not the case. The Court said that I was correct m reproving my daughter, and fined her for striking me, and so bound her over to keep the peace. It is you, the Fakehas, who are entirely to blame for my own fall, and for combining together to- lay traps for my daughter, and for causing the estrangement that exists between us. She has been entirely taken away from me and hidden. These aye some of the ways m which we, the Maories, suffer' at the hands of the Pakeha. Traps are laid to catch our lands; spirits are brought into our houses and forced on us, and our children, and our daughters are enticed and stolen from us. Yet we have no redress. In the old days the penalty would have been enforced. Mere Peka.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 817, 24 June 1879, Page 2
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158MERE PEKA V ATIRIA HAUWAHO. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 817, 24 June 1879, Page 2
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