Maori Gifts To Regiment
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright? COLCHESTER, Essex, May 23. Maori gifts from the Canterbury Regiment of New Zealand to its sister regiment, Britain’s Queen’s Own Buffs—the first British regiment to land in New Zealand (in 1834), were presented at Colchester today by Brigadier C. I- Pleasants, New Zealand’s militiary liason officer in Britain. They included a ceremonial taiaha, a Maori chieftain’s spear, a mere patu, a carved Maori club for the sergeant’s mess to signify the friendship between ranks of each regiment, and a honeysuckle wood and paua shell cigarette box for use in the officers’ mess.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30759, 25 May 1965, Page 4
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