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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19672, 14 December 1933, Page 3

That the Maoris have a good knowledge of simple remedies for bodily ailments was shown recently on a North Shore beach. An old, tattooed wahine was seen just above high-water mark collecting the little berry-like globules which grow on some kinds of seaweed. and after she had got enough she sat down on the sand, and, opening her mouth, put one after another between her teeth, crushing them with a pop and letting the juicy matter i. side spray her throat. When asked why she did it, she said she had a sore throat, and that was th ? way the old Maoris cured a sore throat. They also applied juice to their ears when they had sore ears. A chemist who was bathing at the same beach said the method of cure was on sound lines. Tire globules would be full of iodine in a very pure stnte, as it was completely protected by the outer skin, just as the juice of a goosoberr of similar siae was protected by the outer covering.