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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 10, Issue 10 (January 1, 1936)

Paraparaumu:

Paraparaumu:

Parapara=scraps or small waste fragments, chips; umu=earth oven. There is a tradition of a hungry war-party which, on taking a fortified village from which its defenders fled, found only the scrapings of food on the stones in the umu.