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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 70

Waitaha

Waitaha.

The history of the South Island (leaving out of consideration for the present its west coast, separated by an alpine barrier, and certain local settlements in the northern part of the Island) begins with the tribe called Waitaha. They came from the east coast of the North Island, and became extremely numerous; and to them are attributed by tradition the vast shell-heaps which lie near the beaches. They were exterminated by Ngatimamoe.—Mr. Stack thinks, three hundred years ago. They are vaguely connected by tradition page 11 with the extinction of the moa; but this touches the controverted question as to the date of that extinction. I cannot find, however, that they are traditionally connected with greenstone.