THE MAORI HOUSE
NATIVE CEREMONIAL
; Amongst the visitors at the opening of the Maori House at the Exhibition on Thursday week will be from 80 to 100 members of the Arawa. tribe from Rotorua, to whom will be given the Kawa, or Maori ceremonial opening. Entertainment will be provided by the Ngati-Poneke, the Maoris of Wellington and suburbs. Officers and men of the Maori Battalion training at Trentham will form a. guard of honour, and, if military regulations permit, they will perform the appropriate war dance. It is expected that about 300 Natives will take part in the entertainments connected with the opening ceremony, and speeches of welcome will be made from : the band shell by prominent Maori j chiefs. ]
Before the Prime Minister declares the building opened, a noted tohunga of the Rotorua district will perform the ancient Kawa ceremony of removing the tapu from the building. It has been impracticable to observe strictly the laws of tapu connected with the decoration of such a; building, on; account of the circumstances at; the'Exhibition,'but it is intended to close the hall to the public on Monday, December 11, and to keep it closed till the opening ceremony. The Rotorua party will spend about a week in Wellington, and during their stay entertainments will be given in the Maori Court and in the Assembly Hall.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 135, 5 December 1939, Page 11
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THE MAORI HOUSE
Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 135, 5 December 1939, Page 11
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