REFORMING THE TANGI.
A by-law included in the just gazetted list of regulations for the Whanganui Maori -district, opproved of by the Governor, indicates that the Maori Council for the discrict- is endeavoring to remove some of the more objectionable features of the tangi. The by-law is as follows:; — "No human corpse shall be permitted t» lie in state in any house, but must be taken outside, and may lie in state in a tent to be erected in .some suitable place which shall be indicated by the Chairman of the Village Committee or 'the member of Council for the"riding."
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2196, 16 October 1913, Page 2
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