NATIVE DISTRESS.
WANT OF FOOD AND CLOTHES.
FAILURE OF POTATO CROP.
(Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 11. -Accordin gto Mr. J. Eutrican, the Maoris ot the Waikato and King Country have to. face severei.distress f th ® uniter season. He stated tolay that last winter, from Huutlov .lown to the Heads, the natives were n a bad way. As the result of what he saw on a visit to the Waikato, ho was induced to collect clothes and food for them. Out of 23 children oorii at Orton, between Mercer and Churchill, the winter before last, Mr. Eutrican stated that 21 had died. 1 ins mortality was largely due to cold and exposure, and to want of food. Cast winter, again, many of the natives, owing to the floods, were welliiigh drowned, and several more of their children died from the causes stated. Following the floods, the staple product of the natives, the pouito, on which they so largely depend, was a failure last season, so that now ut the. beginning of another winter he Maoris are faced with the problem oi how to live. Air. Eutrican added he also heard there was distress amongst the King Country natives owing to tho failure of the potato crop there.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2188, 12 May 1908, Page 2
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206NATIVE DISTRESS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2188, 12 May 1908, Page 2
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