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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 45, 28 June 1929, Page 4

The mildness of the winter and the prospect of an early spring is demonstrated by the fact that the native kowhai trees are already in •bloom at Otapiri, and a few twigs of this beautiful shrub, with the liowers well developed, were brought to Invercargill early this week by Mr Baird, a resident there, and shown to a Southland News representative. I ReforrruVr to the report that huias had been seen in the Mangaweka district, a Wanganui Maori told a representative of tlm "WJangaTßU* "Chronicle'' that the natives regarded the huias as the king bird. It was particularly scared and its fathers were highly prizelcll. The) display of a liuia feather had a. different meaning for each tribe. Thebird! derived it's name from the; call of the male which, when summoning all the huias, within hearing together, sounded very Hkfl the. name itself "hui, hui, hui, huia," The meaning Ivinrr Vinliiiffl flik name wan tliPof.aU-;