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or labouring to obtain a livelihood, and cannot afford to waste a day. 
Meetings must be held at night, and sufficient notice must be given to inform 
the scattered households. Then, when the discussion is over, instead of 
reclining in their rugs and telling tales of ancient days till dewy morn, 
they pick up their belongings and depart for théir homes, for the coming 
day has its duties. This is as it should be. 
Many people express the opinion that it is a pity that the old Maori 
haka (war-dances) and poi dances are being lost. In the same breath they 
say that the Maori must work his land and live like Europeans. The two 
es incompatible. The haka and the various dances were the ee 
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the Maori would become extinct like the New Zealand fauna. Hochstetter 
and others believed him. The Maori of the present day, who fought side 
