Maori word for a house;a dissyllable, variously spelt, rhyming with `quarry.'It is often quaintly joined with English words; e.g. a sod-whare, a cottage built with sods. In a Maorivocabulary, the following are given: whare-kingi,a castle; whare-karakia, a church; whare-here,the lock-up.
1820. `Grammar and Vocabulary of Language of New Zealand'(Church Missionary Society), p. 225:
«Ware, s. a house, a covering.»
1833. `Henry Williams' Journal: Carleton's Life,' p. 151:
«The Europeans who were near us in a raupo whare(rush house).»
1845. E. J. Wakefield, `Adventures in New Zealand,' vol. i.p. 26:
«We were much amused at seeing the ware-puni, or sleeping-houses, of the natives. These are exceedingly low, and coveredwith earth, on which weeds very often grow. They resemble inshape and size a hot-bed with the glass off.»
1852. G. C. Mundy, `Our Antipodes,' c. x. p. 265 (ThirdEdition, 1855):
«Sitting in the sun at the mouth of his warree, smoking hispipe.»
1854. W. Golder, `Pigeons' Parliament,' [Notes] p. 76:
«I fell upon what I thought a good place on which to fix mywarre, or bush-cottage.»
1857. `Paul's Letters from Canterbury,' p. 89:
«Then pitch your tent, or run up a couple of grass warres somewhat bigger than dog-kennels.»
1871. C. L. Money, `Knocking About in New Zealand,' p. 33:
«The old slab wharry.»
Ibid. p. 132:
«The village was sacked and the wharries one after another setfire to and burnt.'»
1877. Anon., `Colonial Experiences or Incidents of Thirty-FourYears in New Zealand,' p. 87:
«In the roughest colonial whare there is generally one or moreplaces fitted up called bunks.»
1882. R. C. Barstow, `Transactions of the New ZealandInstitute,' vol. xv. art. liii. p. 428:
«Raupo whares were put up.»
1889. `Cornhill Magazine,' Jan., p. 35:
«Ten minutes more brought us to my friend's `whare,' – – the Maoriname for house.»
1886. `Otago Witness,' Jan. 23, p. 42:
«The pas close at hand give up their population, – – only theblind, the sick, and the imbecile being left to guard thegrimy, smoke-dried whares.»