Te Kopara 80
[3] Te Kopara, Number 80, Gisborne, 30 September, 1920.
‘Iti te Kopara, kai takirikiri ana i runga i te Kahikatea.’
Although the Bellbird is small, he plucks at the Kahikatea. [cf Nga Pepeha 908]
MEDICINE FOR THE WORLD
R[eweti] T K[ohere]
The world is ill – seriously ill. In its great pain it groans unrestrainedly. Perhaps you are saying, ‘What is the illness? I haven’t heard a voice groaning!’ But if you read the Pakeha newspapers then you will hear, then you will see. The person who doesn’t read the newspapers lives in a very restricted world; his world consists of the places he can see with his eyes. But the person who reads the newspapers is sitting on the summit of the world and can see all around and right to the depths.
