White horse presented
NZPA Tokyo New Zealand has presented a pure white horse to help a Japanese shinto shrine maintain its 400-year-old tradition. The New Zealand Ambassador to Japan. Mr Roderick Miller, has handed over the five-year-old polo pony to Hirobki Nukaga, the chief priest at Toshogu Shrine in Nikko, a popular tourist spot about 120 km north of Tokyo, Mr Miller told a crowd of tourists and school childrenat the shrine that the new pony was named Koha, a Maori word meaning “highest gift.”
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19810603.2.68
Bibliographic details
Press, 3 June 1981, Page 7
Word Count
85White horse presented Press, 3 June 1981, Page 7
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Copyright in all Footrot Flats cartoons is owned by Diogenes Designs Ltd. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise these cartoons and make them available online as part of this digitised version of the Press. You can search, browse, and print Footrot Flats cartoons for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Diogenes Designs Ltd for any other use.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.