Title: First Lessons in Maori

Author: W. L. Williams

Publication details: Whitcombe and Tombs Limited, 1930, Auckland

Part of: New Zealand Texts Collection

This text is the subject of: Victoria University of Wellington Library Catalogue

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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V.
§§ 28 to 33.

1. Nga rakau roroa e rua tekau ma wha. 2. Te rima o era toki nunui i nga kakau roroa. 3. Nga whare pai e toru mo koutou ko Turi, ko Ripi. 4. Etahi pukapuka e rima ma maua ko Kupe. 5. Te mea roa rawa o aua rakau e rima. 6. Nga tangata tokorima i roto i te whare nui o Turu. 7. Te nui o enei whare e wha tekau ma rua. 8. I te toru o nga haora o to ratou haerenga ki Te Kao. 9. He pukapuka ma ana tamariki tokowha, takirua ma tenei, ma tenei. 10. Te ra tuatahi o tona nohoanga ki tenei kainga.

1. Those three small canoes for Turi, Kupe and you. 2. The five large books in your new house. 3. Six new books out of his stone house. 4. The best of those sixteen sharp axes. 5. In the open gateway of their old pa. 6. The depth of this well. 7. The height of those page 59 twenty-seven trees in yonder forest. 8. On Tuesday, the fifteenth day of December. 9. Fifteen windows in those five houses, three in each. 10. The three tall men in the fifth house.