The proposal to erect a Maori , meeting house at Wairoa as a . memorial to the late Sir James Car- ' roll has not been forgotten. North j Auckland native carvers are eni gaged in carving some of the work Ito be used in the structure. A fe**' ; years ago the Maoris of the East j Coast held a big hui at Wairoa, at j which it was practically decided to i erect a meeting house—called the | House of Takitimu, after the tradi- | tional canoes which brought the , first of the sons of Kahungunu to j that portion of Aotearoa. It was ; also to be as a memorial to their j great ariki—Tmii Kara—but from ! the date of that meeting to now. j this is the first indication that the i project has not been forgotten,
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21120, 22 March 1934, Page 8
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