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Polynesia
Oscar Nordman claims that the famous canoe Tainui, which carried a party of Polynesians across un charted seas to New Zealand, to found the Maori kingdom, actually departed from Papara, Tahiti, from near the spot where his house is built.
Oscar is an enthusiastic historian, but we think he is off the beam here.
Maoriland was colonised frojn the
lslands—probably Rarotonga—
md that is proved by the language. \ NZ Maon speaks the same anguage as the Cook Islanders, with mly minor difficulties; but he wants i lot of tuition before he can talk vith Tahitians. Cook Islanders can »et an understanding of Tahitian nore quickly—but they are nearer o the Maoris.
The greeting is a good example, fhe Maori says Kia Ora. The Raro onga, Kia Or ana. But the Tahitian Teets you with lorana. The Maori anguage bristles with k’s. There re few, if any, ir. Tahitian. Tahitian ppears to be the mother tongue of 'ook Islanders and Maoris.
We presume the voyagers from )scar’s Papara bay stayed some entunes in the Cooks before posh ig on to NZ.
Auckland 47 6 0 84 2 0 12 Welling ton . .. 47 6 0 84 2 0 13 Christch. (Irom Melb.) . 52 18 0 95 5 0 Honolulu . 225 9 0 405 16 0 1 S. Fran’co 279 1 0 502 5 0 Vancouver 279 1 0 502 5 0 1
Papeete tvia Suva direct) . 207 13 0 19
From Auckland (Nz Currency) To:
Table Single Return No.
Norf. Is. . £15 12 0 £28 2 0 11 Fiji ... 32 10 0 58 10 0 1 16 Samoa . . 42 16 0 77 1 0 16 Aitutaki . 61 8 0 110 11 0 18 Papeete . 75 0 0 135 0 0 18