Meals Assured At Ratana Pa Hui
(New Zealand Press Association) WANGANUI, January 24. Cooking was today back to normal at Ratana pa, its population swollen by thousands attending the annual hui, after hours of work repairing the boiler which broke down yesterday.
Engineers from Wanganui made an emergency trip to the pa, some 12 miles south of the city, yesterday and last night and again this morning to replace five tubes which had blown out.
It was expected this morning that the boiler would be used to prepare today’s evening meal, and supply the day’s hot water.
Cooking, meanwhile, had been done out-of-doors in huge hangis or coppers borrowed from a wide area area around the pa.
Synod Meets Another 3500 people arrived at the pa yesterday to continue the celebrations of the birth of the founder of the Ratana Church, Mr T. W. Ratana, and a further big crowd came in today. With it was the family of the late member for Southern Maori (Sir Eruera Tirikatene). I The Ratana Church synod
continued its deliberations all day yesterday and was in session again today.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31277, 25 January 1967, Page 3
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