30 Maoris to attend New York opening
PA Wellington The former Minister of Maori Affairs, Mr Ben Couch, is among a group of 30 Maori people being sponsored by the Government to attend the opening of Te Maori exhibition in New York next month. The Minister of Maori Affairs, Mr Wetere, will lead the group which includes the chairman of the Maori Council, Sir Graham Latimer; Mr Tamati Reedy, Secretary of Maori Affairs; Mrs president of the Madri Women’s Welfare League, and Northern Maori member of Parliament, Mr Bruce Gregory. All tribes will be represented at the exhibition opening. The Acting Prime Minister, Mr Palmer, said that Mr Couch had been included in the delegation because he had been involved for the last two years organising the huge exhibition.
Mr Palmer has told reporters that the Cabinet approved the plans for the exhibition, which comprises about 175 exhibits ranging in date from 1000 A.D. to 1880.
Mr Wetere will open the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on September 10, where it will run until January 6, 1985.
It will then travel to the St Louis Art Museum in Missouri and the De Young Memorial Museum of Fine Arts in San Francisco where it will close in December, 1985. The exhibition has been,
organised by the American Federation of Arts in conjunction with the New Zealand Government. Mr Palmer said that the Te Maori exhibition would be the most important exhibition of traditional masterpieces from a major South Seas culture ever to be organised. It was the first exhibition of classical Maori :art to leave New Zealand. “It is the Government’s hope and expectation that the exhibition will attract a great deal of interest in the United States for New Zea-
land,” Mr Palmer said. “It will add to the cultural understanding which overseas people have of this country, it will add to New Zealand’s sense of identity, and it will establish the mana of New Zealand in the United States. “We believe it will be a major cultural achievement for this country.” Neither Mr Palmer nor Mr Wetere’s office was able to give an estimate of the cost of sending the delegation to next month’s opening.
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