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The N.Z. Journal of Science and Technology. 
[Jan. 
The Toka i Matai is a great boulder in the river near the pa. Long 
years ago I heard this tale, when grey old Wineti was an active young man, 
and, fired by the recital of old-time deeds as told by Komene, he 
Fig. 1. —Operiki Pa, at Koriniti. 
Fig. 2. —Eastern face, Operiki Pa, showing fosse and rampart. 
sprang to his feet on the grassy slope above the pa, and led the roaring 
chorus of the ngeri. The fierce measure was echoed back by the opposing 
hills, and one could picture that scene of the crushed rangi and the death 
