JOURNEY BELAYED
VICEREGAL PARTY
P.A. GISBORNE, .October 5. Delayed by a slip at Tatapouri caused foy a severe hailstorm, the GovernorGeneral's party en route to Ruatoria for the V.C. investiture was compelled to curtail the functions at To.laga Bay and Tc&omaru Bay, where Sir Cyril Newall officially opened ,a Maori Centennial meeting-house and a Centennial dining-hall respectively. Maori visitors who passed through Gisborne en route to the hui included 300 children from all parts of New Zealand, and also 244 .Maori soldiers and more than 150 Maori civilians fvam Rotorua, the South Island, Taranakj, and Hawkers B.ay.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 84, 6 October 1943, Page 4
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