"T’ROW A PENNY, PAKEHA."
As soon as a visitor conies in sight of the crowds of brown children usually clustering round the bridge at Whakarewarewa, he is assailed with yells of “T row a penny pakeha." The coin is pitched over into the deep pool below, and large and small children at once plunge after it from the bridge, a distance of between twenty and thirty feet. The water is soon swarming with them, and they will keep on diving to the bottom as long as the coin and the generosity of the crowd last.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIV, Issue 4, 26 January 1910, Page 28
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95"T’ROW A PENNY, PAKEHA." New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIV, Issue 4, 26 January 1910, Page 28
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