GREAT MAORI HUI
The vanguard of the great influx of Maoris expected at Waitara to celebrate the unveiling of the monument to their most famous leader, Sir Maui Poinare, and for a general hui has
I already arrived (states a New Plymouth correspondent). Two hundred visitors are in occupation of the Manukorihi Pa and a steady stream of arrivals is expected for the next fortnight. All the man power available is being pressed into service building roads, meeting houses, sleeping quarters, and entertainment marquees. The big canvas-covered marquee to be used as a dining hall will accommodate 1000 people at a sitting. The erec-
tion of sleeping quarters cosily-lined with raupo is under the direction of Maoris from the East Coast. All the work is under the supervision of health authorities to ensure as far as possible that no menace to health shall arise when, probably, 4000 Maoris are crowded into the pa. Meanwhile
the tall white monument of Sir Maui, almost completed, looks down serenely from the eminence on the marac, a symbol of the awakening of the new racial pride under the conditions imposed by the pakeha.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 141, 16 June 1936, Page 11
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189GREAT MAORI HUI Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 141, 16 June 1936, Page 11
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