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Ex-library, General Assembly Library, New Zealand. Library label on front endpaper, with rubber stamp "Withdrawn from Parliamentary Library". Front board detached. Lacking first leaf of Vol. I, No. 5 (pp.65-66). Lacking [4] page supplement to #15. Leather worn with abrasions. ; Rare. 16 of 42 issues. With an unrecorded supplement to #9. The first 18 issues, lacking issues 7 and 11. Dates run from 21 August 1878 to 25 January 1879. Lacking the supplement to #15. But with an unrecorded supplement to #9. Bound in one volume. 1-64, 67-(104), 119-158, (173)-224, (227)-262 pages + [1, 1 (blank)] page Supplement to Vol. I, No, 9. Lacking the first leaf (title leaf) of Vol I, No. 5 (pp. 65-66). Half calf binding. Front board detached. Page dimensions: 316 x 207mm. Text in Maori and English in parallel columns throughout. Text in double columns. Woodcut headpieces from Vol. I No. 6 onwards shows a waka with 28 men, tree ferns, cabbage trees, a lake and in the background a volcano. The third iteration of a Maori language newspaper with the name "Te Waka Maori", which began with "Te Waka Maori O Ahuriri (1863-1871) (BIM S16), followed by the government paper "Te Waka Maori O Niu Tirani" (1871-1877) (BIM S18). "Te Waka Maori o Niu Tirani [S21] was an independent revival of the former central government paper with the same title (1871-1877; S18) and the same editor, James Grindell. The second issue (4 September 1878, p. 21-22) stated that the paper would be 'essentially a Maori vessel, nagivated, and owned to some extent, by Maories themselves, and altogether independent of Government influence' and would provide ' natives a means of expressing their views. . . [and] promoting and encouraging an interchange of sentiments between the two races'. Grindell's licence as an official interpreter was revoked by Native Minister Sheehan when the first issue appeared and throughout its life the paper was highly critical of the government and Sheehan in particular." - BIM 21. [References: BIM (Books in Maori) S21; Williams 554 - "An attempt to revive the old Waka Maori (No. 463), which had ceased publication on July 17, 1877. [. . .] With the fifth number the words 'o Niu Tirani' were omitted from the title, and a rough cut of a Maori war-canoe introduced, having under it the words, 'Hoea te waka, ha!'"] BIM does not record any institutions with complete holdings of this newspaper: the Hocken Library (Dunedin) and the Alexander Turnbull Library (Wellington) are both listed as having incomplete holdings. Issues, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 have supplements within the pagination. Lacking the [4] page Supplement to #15. #9 has a [1, 1 (blank)] page supplement that is not within the pagination. This supplement is headed "He Reta Tuhi Mai / Correspondence" and includes letters from Paora Tuhaere and from Paratene Ngata. BIM 21 does not record a supplement for #9 - "The following issues seen have supplements: no. 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15 [. . .] 19, 31". Pages 101-104 (the supplement to #6) have erratic pagination: 102, 103, 104, unpaginated. The supplement for #9 is also not included in the online Niupepa : Maori Newspapers database, which is based on the Alexander Turnbull Library's microfiche collection "Niupepa 1842-1933". Seller Inventory # 25354
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