“ We find this a difficult country to spend money in,” stated an American tourist when interviewed by a reporter in another centre. “ There is nothing distinctive to buy. We all like to take something away, hut I sent my wife out to buy some little thing, and she came back with nothing. It seems to me that all the genuine Maori work is in the museum, and what little there is outside that is too modern, too much made for trade, to have any value. People don’t seem to have the idea of assisting us. Now in Rio last trip 1 wanted a Brazilian stone, a good one. I wanted a fair deal, so I went to an Englishman. He had not what I wanted, but he offered to get it for me. Four months after I got home, having left the money with him, I got the stone, good value at 6000 dollars. We want to spend money here, and we can’t.”
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Putaruru Press, Volume V, Issue 176, 17 March 1927, Page 6
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