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he rite tonu

1. always, all the time, continually, constantly, ad nauseam, over and over - an idiom to indicate that omething happens over and over.

(Te Māhuri Textbook (Ed. 2): 29;)

He rite tonu te ngarongaro atu o Āpirana ki Pōneke i te pōtitanga i a ia i 1905 hai Mema Pāremata mō Te Tai Rāwhiti (TTR 1996:113). / After he was elected in 1905 as a Member of Parliament for Eastern Māori, Āpirana often disappeared to Wellington.

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