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Show - 20Q Tatou nounamu The "jade door" - A firm Peace Roa, accompanied by his faithful one-legged brother, Ruruku, and. his companion wife, Moana, paused before the flap to the huge tent, erected on the lawn of the Pakeha settlement for the signing of the great peace treaty. He listened for a moment to the drone of voices as six hundred Pakehas and Maoris discussed terms of the treaty. He looked about him at the hundreds of others awaiting the results. "HOXAT far we have come," Roa thought, "and hox^ far yet to go." Tribes had come to this beautiful setting from far to the Southland, from the East and. West Coasts, and from the Northern tin. Thev had come from the |
