Show Princess Te New Nev Zealand Village Ruler Is Worshiped by Her Subjects Under the leadership and direction direction direction tion of the daughter of a Maori chief chief chief-a a princess princess-a a group of Wai- Wai katos has recovered by purchase from white owners the lands surrounding surrounding surrounding sur sur- rounding a spring sacred with religious religious religious re re- re- re significance and of sentimental tal value in the traditions of the tribe writes a Waikato New Zealand Zealand Zealand Zea Zea- land correspondent in the Chicago Tribune A native village I Ihas has been built on these lands after i models and plans a century old with carvings and all the characteristics characteristics characteristics charac charac- I dear to the history loving Maoris and here dwell Te and several hundred of her people people oblivious oblivious to the changes brought about by aggressive ers Though two seventy-two years old and worn and wasted by tuberculosis she had traces of former beauty and she was a grand and glorious woman Even in a recumbent position position po po- po sit ion she had a regal look Her complexion was light brown her figure figure figure fig fig- ure was small and thin her fine gray hair was long and hung free and unconfined below her shoulders large and expressive eyes alternately alternate alternate- ly flashed fire and misted with tears as she discussed the conditions confronting confronting confronting con con- fronting her people her voice was soft and her manners were gentle Te is a remarkable woman She deserves to rank with the worlds world's great Her people worship her She is not aggressive shuns publicity and devotes her life to the advancement of the Maoris She has hns adopted and reared more than thana a hundred orphans She speaks reads and writes English During the World war no inducements offered offered offered of of- by the British could induce her to advise her people the people the Wai- Wai katos to katos-to to enlist in the allies' allies army It is said that if she had acquiesced to these persuasions and sent her people to fight for England she today today today to to- day would be a grand dame of the British empire and in receipt of a comfortable pension She steadfastly steadfast steadfast- ly refused to accede to the requests of n a government which she says has stolen the lands of her people |