SYMBOLIC GIFTS
MAORIS TO ENTERTAIN
AMERICANS
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Gifts of a symbolic nature to President and Mrs. Roosevelt will be handed to United. States representatives at a Maori regatta on the Waikato River at the Ngaruawahia Pa on Saturday when about 500 American servicemen are to be guests of King Koroki and, Princess Te Puea Herangi. The gift to President Roosevelt is a carved ink stand and that for Mrs. Roosevelt a large fruit bowl on a. pedestal. - ■ " Explaining the significance of .the gifts Princess Te Puea said that witn them would so a scroll asking President Roosevelt to reserve the use of the inkstand for the day when he could employ it to write the news 01 the defeat of the Japanese. In the same way the fruit bowl, a symbpl of plenty, was to be used to indicate the return of normal conditions after the war. The gifts were, an expression of the gratitude of the people of New Zealand, both pakeha and Maori, for the help and protection being,, given by the United States. To indicate this the figures supporting the bowl of the ink> stand represented both pakeha and Maori.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 65, 18 March 1943, Page 4
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196SYMBOLIC GIFTS Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 65, 18 March 1943, Page 4
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