By K.R. Howe
This booklet is a vital biography of a guy who performed a massive function within the founding of recent New Zealand. Tregear was once acclaimed as a world authority in Maori and Polynesian reviews, and was once additionally a poet, yet is healthier recognized for his two decades because the first Secretary of Labor(1891-1912). in this interval and regardless of controversy, he used to be liable for one of the most complex hard work laws on the planet.
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Pu, a tribe Pu, to blow Puaki, to come forth Puhipuhi, growing in bunches Pupuhi, to swell hapu, pregnant. ' He first tried 'frog'. He found no Maori word for it, but then he tried Sanskrit. ), the frog, was immediately visible in Maori words: Peke, leaping over PepeJee, drawing up his arms and legs Tupeke, jumping up Peke, all gone, without exception. ' He then found 'cow'. The ancient Aryans prized cattle. Their heaven, Tregear quoted from Clodd's Childhood of religions, was 'a great plain over which roamed bulls and cows, for such the clouds seemed to ...
61 In June 1879 in response to a spate of Maori ploughing of land there was a rush of Patea men to join volunteer forces. Tregear, with his military record standing him in good stead, was elected captain of number two company of the Carlyle Rifles. 62 But as the imagined threat of attack subsided, the volunteers' enthusiasm cooled and fewer and fewer young men turned out to parade. 63 Tregear found the ever decreasing turnout most galling: Most of the men this time last year hardly knew the butt from the muzzle of a rifle and could not load one with any danger to the enemy.
He was in fact influenced by and heavily dependent upon a number of major scholarly traditions and findings. Fairburn's provocative argument that New Zealand's colonial society was at this stage 'gravely deficient' with 'bondlessness' or atomisation a central characteristic,26 obscures the very powerful strands of cultural plasma that could link even those A LIFE OF EDWARD TREGEAR 45 most physically isolated on peripheries to conceptualised centres of ideas and values. Tregear's latter years on the wild North Island frontiers had certainly not isolated him from major developments in European scholarship.