MEMORIAL STONE

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 23, 27 July 1927, Page 13

MEMORIAL STONE

(To the Editor.)

ir'"^ k*ve read with interest a roport from' Masterton ■ regarding Te ■«« e?°™ s, sandst°ne.. pillar erected in 1842 at Whakataki : Bead Surely the board does not appreciate. the fact that le Wharepouri, one of the Napoleonic chiefs, was the pakeha's best friend. It was he who, for the ridiculous price of a few blankets and' Jews' harps/sold the whole of Port Nicholson to the New Zealand Cdmpany; ■ '■.;■. 'Although, a memorial Btbne has been erected by the Government to the memory of.Homana Te Puni: (a silver lovine cup was jilso^presented to Homaua TePuni by the New Zealand Company), who With _ his compatriot Wi. Toko Ngatata Y erc instructed by Te Wharepouri on hia aeatn-bed: - ■ Muri nei nianakitia aku taonga Maori toe aku taonga pakeha"-"! charge roil «?« 2? V 4 'Si y Bacred trusfc between the pakeha'and Maori people"—to uphold ma sacred trust. _Siirely the board should reconsider Mr Burtons appeal, seeing that is the only memorial, so far, erected to the memory of so worthy a "Rangatira."—l am, etc., TEWHITILOVE (A direct descendant of these 26th July. ; Ra^iras). _