Te Kopara 32
[3] Te Kopara, Number 32, Gisborne, 15 June, 1916.
‘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]
THE GREAT WAR.
The thing most people want to hear about now is the conflict being carried on on the other side of this round world, in Europe, Asia and Africa. Many members of our families are engaged in it, some have died, some have returned wounded, and some are going to take the places of those who have fallen. No war in the past has been like this. Not the former armies; the number of men engaged is exceedingly great. Formerly wars took place on land or on ships sailing on the surface of the sea. Now we see other ways being used by those intent on killing people. Some, like taniwha dive under the surface of the sea to fight there. Some fly like birds in the air dropping things to kill people, things that cannot be avoided.
