--- title: Whitcombe & Tombs Limited — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · full text with trees description: Whitcombe & Tombs Limited, «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, & Wellington, N.Z. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Ca…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/) / Whitcombe & Tombs Limited # Whitcombe & Tombs Limited Whitcombe & Tombs Limited of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan: the whole text, 14 sentences and 344 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, & Wellington, N.Z.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") Melbourne and London[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") 1923[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") \_E. Cowan, photo\_[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") HONE TAARE TIKAO, the narrator of the legends.\][5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") PREFACE[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") In this little book I have endeavoured to interweave with descriptions of the most picturesque parts of the Canterbury Port Hills some of the Maori poetic legends and historical traditions which belong to the Range, and which have not previously been recorded.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") These stories, I hope, will invest with a new interest for many Canterbury \_pakehas\_ the scenic beauties of the Port Hills now opened up from end to end by the Summit Road.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") Here I desire to record also, with feelings of gratitude, the name of the principal narrator of the legends, Mr. Hone Taare Tikao, of Rapaki, a Ngai-Tahu gentleman whose uncommonly retentive memory is a storehouse of information on local history and who blends in himself the gifts of the folk-lorist and the genealogist.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") Some of the place-names were supplied by the late Mr. T. E. Green (Tame Kirini), of Tuahiwi, Kaiapoi, one of the last good native authorities on the ancient history of the plains.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") For the priceless gift of free access to these grand tops of the Port Range the people are indebted to the efforts and the gifts of a few public spirited residents, but most of all to the exertions of Mr. H. G. Ell, whose enthusiasm, prescience of vision, and singleness of purpose in developing the Summit Road along this mountain park have properly earned him the admiration and the thanks of thousands of his fellow-citizens who daily lift up their eyes to the Hills and who find on those hills their pleasure and their solace for town-tired body and brain.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") And maybe if Mr. Ell’s name were bestowed, like Tamatea’s of old, upon one of these monumental crags still unchristened, it would but fittingly preserve the memory of a man whose title to such local honour and fame is certainly greater than that of some of his forerunners whose names the landscape bears.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") J.C.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") CONTENTS.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") - ← previous: [Canterbury, New Zealand](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/1/) - next →: [Chapter I. The Story of the Rocks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/3/) - ↑ back to [Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/)