MAORIS’ MISTAKE.
End of World Expected or Saturday. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND. July 22. The Maori community at Neao Valley, Clevedon, which on Saturday expected the end of the world, was today in a more normal frame of mind. During the preceding three days the Maoris, under the influence of a six-teen-year-old girl who thought herself possessed of a spirit, worked themselves into a state of religious excitement. Men gave up their jobs, children were kept away from school and in some cases money was thrown a wavunder the belief that all things would end at midnight on Saturday. The Anglican clergj-man at Clevedon visited the vicinity on Saturday night and conducted a religious service until midnight. To-day the community was normal, and Maoris, who Lad flocked from as far as fifty miles away, returned to their homes quite as willing as the outside world to ridicule their past delusions. *
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20364, 23 July 1934, Page 13
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150MAORIS’ MISTAKE. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20364, 23 July 1934, Page 13
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