New Zealand in evolution, industrial, economic and political; . chased sheep and turned themloose on the long, brown slopes of the East Coast, wherethe tussac and toi tot wave eternal in the Pacific breezes,where the green flax sedges the streams and the cabbagepalms stand sentry on the hillsides. Scab was still rifeamongst the flocks of New Zealand. The Maori neglectedsuch necessary details as dipping and treating, and byand by the inexorable stock inspector ordered the de-struction of the whole of the Maori flocks. Utterly dis-couraged, the Maori abandoned sheep-farming, let hisland pass eas
New Zealand in evolution, industrial, economic and political; . chased sheep and turned themloose on the long, brown slopes of the East Coast, wherethe tussac and toi tot wave eternal in the Pacific breezes,where the green flax sedges the streams and the cabbagepalms stand sentry on the hillsides. Scab was still rifeamongst the flocks of New Zealand. The Maori neglectedsuch necessary details as dipping and treating, and byand by the inexorable stock inspector ordered the de-struction of the whole of the Maori flocks. Utterly dis-couraged, the Maori abandoned sheep-farming, let hisland pass easily away to the pakeha, and feasted and mademerry on the proceeds. Ten years later the spirit took them again. There wasa pakeha working sheep profitably in their midst. TheNgatiporou determined to try again on their own com-munal lands. One hapu accepted a scrub-cuttingcontract from a white settler, and purchased sheep withthe proceeds. Another tribe which had collected moneyfor the erection of a meeting-house bought sheep with Family : section of a tribe. i.
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