ano, kahore te kiri ma e whai mana ki runga ake i a ratou inaianei a haere ake nei. Kei te taha tonga ki te rawhiti Te Mana Motuhake o Indonesia. He iwi e noho ana i runga moutere. Kei runga atu i te iwa tekau miriona to ratou tokomaha; i heke mai i Malaya i ko noa atu ranei, ka whakanoho i konei. Ko te Ingoa “Indonesia” i ahu mai i etahi kupu e rua o te reo Kariki: “Indos” (East India) me “nesos” (island). Ne reira, ki te reo Maori: “Ko nga Moutere o Inia ki te Rawhiti”. Na ko te ingoa maori o India ko “Irihia”, ka tika noa atu ai te mea ko “Irihia ki te Rawhiti” te ingoa maori o Indonesia. Hei tetahi atu wa ka korero ai ahau i te roanga atu o nga korero mo “Irihia” me era atu ingoa o era takiwa o te ao tae noa mai ki nga ingoa o te Moana-nui-a-kiwa e whanaunga ana ki era. Ma te haere marika na reira ka ata kitea te tika o nga korero a Percy Smith, a Dr Buck, me eahi atu o o tatou tohunga o era nga ra, i heke mai nga iwi Maori o te Moana-nui-a-kiwa i era wahi o te ao. Kei te tautohetia tenei korero. Waiho i konei. Taro ake nei ka korero ai ahau o tona roanga atu. E toru mano maero te roa o tenei whenua, a kei tetahi taha kei tetahi taha o te rohe wera i tera takiwa o te ao. Ka takahi atu i runga ka whiti atu ki te tuawhenua o Ahia, ka whiti mai ranei ki Ahitereiria ki a tatou hoki i Aotearoa nei. Ki te rere tika ma runga i te aropereina tekau haora ano kua tae tatou ki tenei whenua, ki tenei mana motuhake i tenei ao pahekeheke. E tino kitea ai tona rahi, ka pau katoa mai tetahi wahi o Awherika, te wahi kei raro i te mana o te Wiwi. TE IWI O INDONESIA E toru mano nga moutere o tenei whenua, ara, he whenua moutere, he whenua wai: ko te rahi o nga moutere e 735,000 square miles (e whia ake eka te rahi). Ko nga moutere nunui o tenei whenua ko: Sumatra, ko Borneo ki te taha tonga, ko Java, ko Celebes, ko Bali, ko Flores, ko Halma-heira, ko Timor, e tata tonu mai ana ki Ahitereiria nei. Ko te ingoa “Java” a rite tonu ana ki te “Hawa” a te Maori. Na Tatimana te “Java” i tona taenga mai ki tenei whenua. He uaua ki a ia no te “Hawa”, ka whakahuaina e ia “Java”. No tona tikanga ki te reo pakeha “Homeland” or “Island”. Ka mohio ai tatou ko te “Hawaiki” e mohio nei tatou ko te “Kainga iti” ko te “Moutere iti” ranei. Ko te “iki” a rite ana ki ta tatou kupu maori “iti”. Ka pai ta tatou korero hei tirotirotanga ma tatou, hei whakahoki i o tatou whakaaro ki a tatou korero maori ki a tatou waiata maori hei whakaatu i te tohungatanga o te maori ki te tito waiata hei pupuri i ana mahi, i one hikoitanga ki konei ki kora; i ana karakia ki ona atua, i tona rangatiratanga. Kati i konei mo tenei wa enei korero. He iwi kotahi a Indonesia, kotahi hoki tona reo, (Indonesia), i roto i nga reo o ona wehewehenga, touched down at Djakarta. No sooner did we deplane than we felt the heat coming up our legs, the kind of heat that would not be felt in this country. We perspired during the whole of our tour even up to the time when we returned home; of course, it is in the equatorial zone; the heat is no less than 90 degrees all the year round, and these people have become accustomed to it in their own land. A blanket is unthought of when one is asleep. ARE WE RELATED TO THE INDONESIANS? When we arrived the Customs officers, all natives, came and went through the usual formalities respecting our persons and our luggage. All these and the questioning had to be completed before we could be received by our hosts whose responsibility it was to give us hospitality in this part of Indonesia. It is an amazing thing that these people rule their own country and administer their own affairs. Politically, they are independent of the West and for all time (so it seems). Indonesia lies to the south east of South East Asia, as a separate Power and nation. Her people live on islands. She has a population of over 90 million people migrated from Malaya or beyond and settled here. The name “Indonesia” originated from two Greek words: “indos” (East Indian) and “nesos” (island). Therefore, according to the Maori it means “Ko nga Moutere o Inia ki te Rawhiti”—“The islands of India to the South”. Now the Maori name for India, according to our authorities, is “Irihia”, so that it will be quite safe to say that “Irihia ki te Rawhiti” is the Maori name for Indonesia. At some future date, I shall tell you more about the name “Irihia” and other names in Asia including South East Asia; and place names in the Pacific, with a view to explaining the connection between Asia and the Pacific. It is by actually visiting these places that one can see truth of what Percy Smith, Dr Buck and other anthropologists of yesteryear said, that the Maori Race of the Pacific migrated from those regions of the world. This question is a controversial one. Let the matter rest here. At some future date, I will continue with it. THE INDONESIAN NATION This country is about three thousand miles long. It lies within the equatorial zone in that part of the world. It is a stepping stone from Asia north of the equator to Australia in the south; and to us, of course, here in New Zealand. If we flew, as the crow flies, by plane it would take ten hours, if not less, to reach this country, an independent one in this unstable world. In order to see its large dimensions, it will bring in that part of the United States starting from New York and