Club calls for Hornby marae

Press, 26 February 1983, Page 12

Club calls for Hornby marae

The Hornby Maori Club wants to establish a marae in Hornby. It seeks a site for the marae from the Paparua County Council. A letter from the club to the council has been read at a reserves committee meeting. The letter sought the council’s approval of the club's marae proposal in principle, and asked whether the council could offer a site. The club had been running for six months, said the letter. About 40 adults and 25 children attended its weekly meetings. A lack of its own accommodation was restricting the club’s activities. Prefabricated buildings were available to the club, and it sought a site on which to put them. A further aim was to establish a permanent marae within 10 vears at which Earl dies The journalist and television personality, the Earl of Arran. has died peacefully in his sleep at his Hertfordshire home, aged 72. Over the years he had built up a wide-ranging reputation as a newspaper columnist, badger expert, and somewhat eccentric Right-wing broadcaster. — London.

time the prefabricated buildings would be removed. The marae would be "used as a continuing service to the community in all aspects of Maori culture." said the letter. The reserves committee referred the letter to the Hornby District Council for comment. P.E.P. workers Two Project Employment Programme workers have started work for the council restoring damage to property caused by last month’s storm. The council has applied for one more worker.