362 Transactions. 
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The Passing of the Maori. 
By Te Raxer Hrgoa (Р. Н. Воск), 0.8.0., M.D. 
[Read before the Auckland Institute, 16th October, 1922 ; received by Editor, 31st есет e 
1922 ; issued separately, 8th July, 1924.1 ° 
INTRODUCTORY. 
“ THE passing of the Maori." These words have a sad and mournful so 
They almost convey the idea that in order to do justice to the subje 
should ind our brows with wreaths of kawakawa leaves, lacerate our 
with obsidian flakes, and raise the wail of the tangi, for “a race th 
speeding sadly onward to oblivion.” Such seems to have been the attit 
of € ri i the past. ст 
Sy . Newman (1, p. 477) stated: “ Taking all things into 
а. the disappearance of the race is um d ай кэк. for 
ride [the race] is sick unto death, and is already potentially 
. "e quotes von Hochstetter as observing, in 1865, “ The Maoris 
