NOTICES AND ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Waka Maori, Volume 11, Issue 7, 6 April 1875, Page 71

NOTICES AND ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Hakaraia te Huaki. —The death of Te Paea Tiaho was duly noted in Waka No. 2, of January last. We are informed that £137 was spent by the Natives in the purchase of supplies for the mourners who attended on the occasion of the deatli of Ani Te Tuhi Taipari at Tauranga on the 17th of March last, and that a further expense will yet have to be incurred to supply the wants of the continuous influx of mourners. "The cry is still, They come" and so they will continue to come, like swarms of American grasshoppers, so long as they can feed on the fat of the land without labour or expense to themselves. llow can the Maoris expect to be prosperous when they squander their means in so senseless a manner ? Pine Amine Huhu, of Anaura, East Coast, urges the Natives of that district to take measures to obtain the services of a medical man among them, as advised by Tamati Tautahi in his letter published in Waka No. 22, in November, 1874. He says since that letter was published some thirty Natives have died in the district, for the want, he believes, of medical assistance.

Tamihana Aperahama, of Kaipara, is very angry. He persists in writing that he does not receive his papers, and inquires what is our reason for neglecting him. All we can say is that we have made more than one inquiry about the matter, and we find that his papers are regularly posted with the others for his district. Te Wehi, of Waikouaiti.—Your letter has been received, and we shall make an effort to publish it in our next. We cannot translate it in time for this number of the WaTca. Hopaeu, of Waikouaiti.—Your letter has been received. The subject is neither important nor interesting.

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