Maori Oratory.

The picturesque imagery, so characteristic of Maori oratory, was caught in the peroration of a speech by Mr. A. T. (Turi) Carroll, Chairman of the Wairoa County Council, at the celebrations to mark the official opening of the railway from Napier to Wairoa on the 1st July.

“We see,” said Mr. Carroll, “the bleak isolation which has brooded, cloud-like and menacing, over Wairoa for so many years, dispelled by the gentle and generous wind of prosperity. The railway raises the curtain to reveal, in sunshine colours, that bright and glowing future which is the District's destiny.”