Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 175, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1920 — ARE OF SAME STOCK [ARTICLE]

ARE OF SAME STOCK

Hawaiian and Maori Races Are - Shown to Be Identical. New Zealand Natives Are Descendants of People From Pacific Isles, Investigation Proves. Honolulu.—The Maoris of New Zealand and the Hawaiians are from the same stock. It has just been announced by officials of the Church of Latter Day Saints here. They have made public evidence tending to prove that, in 500 A. D„ 80 canoes left the Hawaiian islands filled with men, women and children, and tfiat, five centuries later, the remnants of this migration reached New Zealand In 40 canoes. _ Wlremu, or William, Duncan, a Maori dairy farmer of Dannevirke, New Zealand, who traces his ancestry .back 110 generations, or to about 500 (years before Christ, as Polynesian genierations run, came here recently with

19 of his countrymen and countrywomen in a search for the link which would bind the Maori and Hawaiian races. According to the statement of James N. Lambert, presiding elder of the New Zealand mission of the Mormon church, and President E. Wesley Smith of the Honolulu branch of the faith, under whose auspices the Maoris came to Honolulu, the two races were found to merge at the sixty-fifth generation of Duncan’s family tree. __ When Duncan, who learned his genealogy, as Maoris and Hawaiians do, from the lips 'of his father, compared his family tree with that of Emma K. Lewis, a woman bom on the island of Hawaii, he found that they had an identical forefather in the person of one Hema, sixty-fifth of his line in Duncan’s genealogy. From Hema back through the ages it was discovered that the two family trees ran as one, name after name being the same, except for slight

differences in spelling and pronunciation. which are generally recognized. ♦ Those who have been investigating the origin of the two races assert: that the discoveries just made were taken In association with the Hawaiian tradition that Hema went from Hawaii to Tahiti, and the Maori tradition that Hema's descendants went to New Zealand from Tahiti, lead to the inevitable conclusion that the Maoris andl the Hawaiians are of the same stock.