Queen hands over historic book
PA Wellington In a private ceremony at Government House this week, the Queen handed over to the Governor-Gen-eral, Sir Paul Reeves, a historic prayer and hymn book written in Maori. A Government House spokesman said the book was handed back after an earlier approach to the Queen. The book, supplied by the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge in London, saved the life of Hone Tahitahi, a New Zealand soldier, when it stopped a bullet as he landed on the beach at Gallipoli in the World War I.
After the war, Hone sent the book back to the society in London, which has been publishing Maori prayer books since 1848. The Queen’s inscription says: "In 1986, on one of her visits to New Zealand, Queen Elizabeth 11, herself patron of the S.P.C.K., returned Hone’s book into the keeping of the Maori people.”
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