MAORI TEXT-BOOK
WORK BY SIB AFIRANA NGATA A busy mac, and member of Cabinet as Minister of Native Affair's, Sir Apirana Is-gatg is a prodigious worker. He: has just issued, under the authority of the Board of Maori Ethnological Research, his second volume of “Nga Mo tea ten,” a well-bound book of 144 pages, printed in Maori. Bike tlye firstpart, published 12 months ago, this .edition of mementoes, carrying a sub-title meaning ‘the scattered fragments of the many’canoes” (tribes) collected by the writer, is one of a series of .texCboqkSj intended for use in the study of Maori as a University subject. It coi(Jaips a. further detailed group of laments, genealogical tables, mythological incantations,: historical-prose, narratives and haka and poi dance songs, compiled with commentary on the compositions. _ Sir Apirana intends to publish a third and larger hook to complete a modern Maori literary compendium that should contribute much valuable information on tin important subject.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17061, 20 September 1929, Page 11
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