Title: First Lessons in Maori

Author: W. L. Williams

Publication details: Whitcombe and Tombs Limited, 1930, Auckland

Part of: New Zealand Texts Collection

This text is the subject of: Victoria University of Wellington Library Catalogue

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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III.
§§ 10 to 13, 19 to 22.

1. He kai ma tana tama, ma Kurei. 2. Etahi pukapuka ma tona tuakana, ma te wahine a Turi. 3. Taua toki a te tama a Tuau. 4. Taua māra a to taua pāpā. 5. He tangata no hea? 6. He kakahu no roto i (out of) te whare o Turi ratou ko Rupe ma. 7. He potae mo tenei, mo tenei o nga tamariki o te kura. 8. He kowhatu no roto i te awa. 9. He kakahu no te wahine a Manaia, no Kuiwai. 10. He kupu ki a Te Hati raua ko Hongi.

1. A house belonging to me. 2. Houses for you and Turi and Rupe. 3. To his father and his mother. 4. Canoes from Tauranga, Maketu, and Whakatane. 5. Those dogs of yours. 6. A house for Turi and his father. Rewa. 7. A letter to one of you. 8. The men and the dogs within yonder fence. 9. That house on the side of the hill. 10. These potatoes as (to be, § 15) food for your pigs. 11. The door of a house belonging to me. 12. Food for pigeons. 13. Clothes for this child of mine.

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