Maori Horse-sense An amusing and touching story was told by Bishop F. A. Bennett while Jio v 'as addressing the children at the missionary festival being celebrated in tide Foretsers’ Hail, Napier. A shoi t ' while ago a party of Maoris were attending confirmation service, at wl’iiich one Maori lady subsequently ad mitted she had walked barefooted 1 14 miles to attend. She w r as asked why she had come without shoes. She replied: “I’ve only one •pair c>f shoes, and if I wear those out no on e will buy me any more. But If I wear my feet out, they’ll grow again.’\ %i k
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 342, 28 August 1933, Page 5
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