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...Maori Chief Kereopa hated missionaries and all their works. Himself strictly an eye-for-an-eye man, he had vowed to get even with the men of God ever since an overzealous missionary had locked his relatives in a church which had then accidentally burned down before anyone could unlock the doors. So one day in 1865, when Kereopa happened on the Rev. Carl Volkner in a lonely spot, he killed him, taking care to eat the dead man's eyes so the ghost would not stare at him. The New Zealand Government promptly offered a ?1,000 reward...
Last week came word from New Zealand that Maori musicality has at last produced a likely concert singer. Ini Te Wiata, 34, a logger with a resonant bass, has made such a hit with his countrymen (and with thousands of U.S. Marines in wartime New Zealand) that New Zealand's Labor government decided to do something for him. This week he will board ship for three years at London's Trinity College of Music, a $10,000 musical education at Government expense. New Zealanders, who suspect they have found a native Paul Robeson, do not intend...
...guessed what social force (the lash or superstition) called forth so mighty an effort, or what happened to the people who built Fortress Nanmatol. Director Peter H. Buck of Honolulu's Bishop Museum (whose mother was a New Zealand Maori) hopes the U.S. will clear up Japan's neglected mystery and retell the tale of the daring, industrious primitives who sailed the Pacific sea reaches millenniums...
...Arthur was born in Brisbane, but grew up and was educated in New Zealand, prefers to be known as a New Zealander. "Lloyd George," he says, "is known as a Welshman, yet he was born in Manchester." Coningham's odd nickname, "Mary," is a corruption of Maori, which means a New Zealand aborigine. In the service of a country whose red-blooded he-men are often Cyrils, Cuthberts, Clarences and Vivians, he does not mind being called "Mary." But he strenuously objected to a newspaper article which said he was "a scholarly type." He exploded...
They wore rakish straw and panama hats gleaned on the march. One Maori wheeled his Bren gun in a streamlined perambulator. Another wore a silk hat and carried a walking stick, his Bren gun strapped across his back. One company marched into a village, captured outlying houses in the midst of their own barrage. Complained a prisoner: "We didn't think you would come until the barrage lifted...