Te Toa Takitini 26
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Te Toa Takitini
Registered at the GPO as a Newspaper.
(Maori Version at PapersPast.)
Number 26, Hastings, September 1, 1923.
WELCOMING PEOPLE.
Moihi Te Matorohanga.
This is the guidance Te Matorohanga gave to Te Whatahoro when he was writing the accounts of the Lore of Things Celestial and the Lore of Things Terrestrial as taught in the House for Instruction in Occult Lore of the Tairawhiti and which Te Matorohanga passed on to him. They are instructions we do well to remember in these days. These are the instructions:
“I have learned that this will ensure a welcome from the Pakeha for these instructions. You are urged, my friend, to be strong. By this you will be known by people and by this you will be welcomed by people. My friend, I say to you, to welcome both great and small. Respond to the twitching nose of the chief; he has authority to overthrow powers, he can avenge, he can bring things to an end. If you are cursed by the low-born do not respond, lest having responded you are forsaken. Feathers are becoming to a bird; without feathers it is not beautiful.
