An unexpected answer came from a Maori witness in the Auckland Supreme Court when he was asked by counsel why he had left the farm on which he was working at Cleved'on. "There was a tumour about the end of the world among the Maoris," lie said. Counsel suggested that the witness left because he had had a row with the- boss." but witness maintained that he had been influenced solely by the belief that the end of the world was at hand.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19137, 5 October 1936, Page 13
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