A MAORI WITNESS
BRIGHTENING UP A DRAB ' ' CASE. WANGANUI, Juno 12. The evidence of; a Maori witness, a shearer, at the Wanganui sessions ot the Supreme Court brightened , the drab procedure of a lengthy ' land cr.se. "Kahore, I can't talk English sci well," he told counsel, smiling expansively, "but I talk Maori well it you like." Laughter). "What was wrong with the sheep?" asked counsel. Witness, laughing: No kai. Counsel: What were the sheep like? Witness- Big sheep, very poor. No kai. Counsel: How was the feed? Witness: Feed? Kai? Oh, no kai. Overstock, 1 suppose. Counsel: If these sheep had kai, would they have been: good? Witness : They ought to be. Counsel: What was the wool like? Witness: Oh, very small when, you, roll him up. I told boss: "You very lucky to pay him off." Counsel: How long have you been shearing. Witness: O-o-o-h. Twenty years I think. "End? End? Kumata?" queried, the Maori, descending rapidly from the witness bix when told his evidence was finished.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 78, 15 June 1928, Page 8
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