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Notes Taken As Maori Visits (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Sept. 6. A Maori welfare worker who returned yesterday from a tour of South Africa said one of the highlights of the trip was a visit to the whitesonly gallery in the South African House of Parliament. Mr J. Rangihau, of Rotorua, said he was the first nonwhite to visit the gallery, and when members of Parliament noticed him seated there they wrote notes which were then passed to the Speaker. Mr Rangihau, district welfare officer in Rotorua with the Maori and Islands Affairs Department, together with three other Presbyterians, visited Kenya and South Africa to represent the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand at a meeting of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches—the Church’s inter national conference normally held every five years. “Everywhere I went I was shown tremendous hospitality,” Mr Rangihau said. 4,
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32395, 7 September 1970, Page 14
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