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Show - 20k - and in your villages, there are Pakehas that murder and pillage. It is our feeling, however, that these people on both sides are in the minority and can be controlled. It is our feeling that the maiority of Maori and Pakeha desire peace. "It is our desire and our plan to go among the villages of your people and sneak with their chiefs asking them to sign a netition for oeace as a start toward what we hope will lead to a treaty of peace signed for this entire land of New Zealand, as we call it. Henry Busby has informed me that he is assured that your ox^m Chief Roa will unite with us in our efforts for ultimate neace. He will have to speak in his own words, of course," said the Lieutenant, concluding his remarks and. seating himself. "My people, whom I love as I love my own family," addressed Roa, "The words I say now are sure and true, for my snirit knows it to be so. Our course is straight. It will be a course of neace. We will work with our Pakeha friends who work for neace. "We will lay down our taiaha, our mere, our patu, our tewhatewha, our nouwhenua, our hoeroa, and all our weapons and instruments of war. We will |