A Touch of the Tar Brush single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1898... 1898 A Touch of the Tar Brush
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A Maori politician fighting against the forced acquisition of his people's land is betrayed by his Labour party supporters and is defeated. After the vote he is invited to an opponent's house and, having decided to resign, accepts the invitation. While there the daughter of the man who led the troops who killed his mother and sister shows him her father's sketches of the battle.

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