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The wax-cluster, abundant in themiddle region of Mount Wellington, and in other elevated andmoist situations in the colony. ' The form `roustabout'is sometimes used, but the latter is rather an American word(Western States), in the sense of a labourer on a river boat, adeck-hand who assists in loading and unloading. The following quotations illustrate special uses of the word incomposition. Dawson, `Present State of Australia,' p.

212: Fish and other things are frequently baked in the bark of thepapertree. How sharply the last note sounds. No doubt there is an allusion to the bad spiritsfrequently sold at bush public-houses, but if a teetotaler hadinvented the word he could not have invented one involvingstronger condemnation. Maori generic term for allhand-striking weapons.