“HINEMOA”

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11111, 28 November 1914, Page 8

“HINEMOA”

LYCEUM PICTURES,

The following is a brief synopsis of the leading picture jto'be shown at the Lyceum Pictures on Monday next in the Town Hall, Martou:— Tn, a strong, handsome Maori youth, lived with his father, a great chief, and his three elder brothers on the island of Mokoia in Lake Rotorua. Tu was of inferior position and poor, as his mother had lost caste through breaking social observances before. his birth. On the mainland lived’a Maori maiden named Hinemoa, of remarkable beauty. The maiden was sought in marriage by Maori men of highest rank, but Hinemoa looked with eyes of love on handsome Tu. As her people destined her for a powerful noble the lovers met in secret. In the twilight of a summer’s evening Tu sat in a small tower ou the island, aud played his love songs which the night air wafted across the water to Hinemoa, whereat the girl was supremely happy. Later the young lovers arranged to elope and Tu was to sound a trumpet at night so that Hinemoa could guide her canoe in the right diiection. Hinemoa’s friends becoming suspicious kept the canoes hauled up on the beach and so frustrated the lovers’ designs. Chafing under these conditions and becoming more impassioned and reckless with an intense desire for her lover’s presence Hinemoa one night cast herself into Lake Rotorua and swam across the belt of water, four miles broad which separated her from Tu, who was on the island of Mokoia. Then Hinemoa rose from the water beautiful as a wild white hawk and graceful as the shy white ..crane that is seen only Ones in a hundred yaers. Tu flung his garment over her, led her to his house, aud she became his bride.