The love of the Maori for billiards tvas exemplified recently m one of the cabins at the Dumgree prison camp. The cabin was occupied by four natives, who constructed a miniature billiard table out of an ordinary dre6siug-room table. Eveiy detail was complete, cloth, cushions, <md pockets. Tho cloth was made out of a smooth piece of tweed, and the balls were represented by marbles. The makeshift was a poor .substitute for the usual billiard table, but served to remind the Maoris of many lazy hours spent over the green baize cloth of the far-away village hotel. Another and more profitable pastime of the Dumgree natives is matmaking.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11127, 16 November 1907, Page 2
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