Te Toa Takitini 28 (sic)
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Te Toa Takitini
Number 28
Hastings
Registered at the GPO as a Newspaper.
(Maori Version at PapersPast.)
December 1, 1923.
THE OLD CLOAK WOVEN OF KIEKIE.
You folk who are in debt to Te Toa Takitini, please send a token of affection to your child. He is very diligent about wandering to all your marae. Whether it is raining or stormy, the child doesn’t care, because he loves his superiors so much. This child has whispered to me. These are his words: ‘Sir, the clothes my superiors gave me are too old. I’m not warm. The rain is soaking me to the skin because my cloak of kiekie is in tatters.’
You superiors, do respond with compassion to this child’s lament. Send something to keep him warm and so that he is not embarrassed by the very old cloak draped over him.
