Mea rawa ake ka mau a Hotupuku ki roto i tētahi tāwhiti i rangaa i te rau o te tī (Te Ara 2013). / Very soon Hotupuku was caught in a noose woven from cabbage tree leaves.
Nā te koremahi kua puta ki waho i te rohe kimi mahi ai, ā, mea rawa ake kua noho kē i wāhi kē, moe kē i iwi kē, me te aha anō ngaro ana te reo i ngā tamariki nā te warea ki te reo Hōrana. / Because of unemployment they have migrated to seek work, and very soon they have settled elsewhere and married other people, and what's more the language is lost by the children because they're busy speaking Dutch.

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