MAORI CANOES’ RACE AT SYDNEY
CELEBRATION OF CENTENNIAL OF NEW SOUTH WALES
(FEOi! OCR OW» COESESPOSDESST.) SYDNEY, September 24.
Maori war canoes wUI probably be a feature of the harbour carnival during the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary celebrations): in Sydney in 1938.
The Minister in charge of the celebrations (Mr J. M. Dunrunghami said that he had written to Sir Apirana Ngata suggesting that a war canoe, or canoes, manned.by Maoris in fighting dress, should be sent to Sydney. It was thought that the appearance of these picturesque craft and their crews, in races on the harbour during the aquatic carnival, as well as on shore, would greatly enhance the spefctacular effect which was aimed at in the organisation. The Minister said that as New Zealand will celebrate its centennial in 1940, the proposed gesture by the Dominion for 1938 might be Reciprocated.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21906, 6 October 1936, Page 9
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