POMARE'S GRAVE

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 50, 27 August 1930, Page 11

POMARE'S GRAVE

A COMMANDING SITE

GATHERING OF MAORI RACE

(By Telegraph.—Presa Association.)

NEW PLYMOUTH, 25th August.

. Upon a high bluff within the enclosure of Manukorihe Pa, overlooking the town and the placid river of Waitara, is the vault which, on Sunday will receive the casket containing the ashes of Sir Maui Pomare. Tho vault, now almost completed, will ultimately be tho base of a monument in memory, of Sir Maui and another great Maori leader, Wiremu Kingi. ~ _ No memorial could be more fitting. Behind are the buildings of the pa; to tho left the old cemetery on which lio many ancient Maori warriors; on the right beyond the road a slope to the sea; in front and below, the river and Waitara, and bsyond tho rolling acres of green the stately cono of Egmont. Upon tho arrival of the c&skct at Waitara on Friday four Maoris dressed in mats "similar to those worn by their forefathers will bear it to the pa, whore it will be placed in a small tent until tho final obsequies on Sunday. The Taranaki Maoris are making preparations for thousands of visitors to the pa. Many havo already arrived, I including parties from the South 'island, and one family from the Chatham Islands. Tho supply of food collected • already includes five thousand cols and ten tons of potatoes.