MAORI RACE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 128, 2 June 1939, Page 10

MAORI RACE.

PROPOSED MARAE.

SITE IN AUCKLAND

ACTION BY THE MAYOR. The Mayor of Auckland. Sir Ernest Dnvis. lihs nskpd the Town Planning Conimittpp of the Auckland City Council to ascertain if a suitable area in th<» <ity can lie made available to the Maori rare, us a. site for a proposed

At the recent of native

students from various pads of New Zealand. 1 was deeply impressed by the hijjh note sounded as to the future of the race, and the spiritual view-

point delegates adopted in that regard." sai<l Sir Krnest. "One point strewed in particular ««* that there should be in Auckland, as an integral part of the maintenance of the Maori race and it> culture, a properly established marae, and 1 undertook to bring the matter to the notice of the council, because 1 considered the city owed a great deal to the .Maori race and had a duty to encourage members of it in the preservation of their traditions, and the expression of their aspirations."

Sir Krnest added that the proposal had no reference to any building projot, nor did it relate 'to the Orakci native sett lenient.