MAORI GATHERING
POMARE MEMORIAL UNVEILING i
[L’EK I’KESS ASSOCIATION’.]
NEW PLYMOUTH. June IS
In response to an i:;citation of the committee in charge of next week’s proceeding’s al Waitnra, for the unveiling of the Sir Maui Pomare memorial, and the opening of the memorial Maori meeting house, advice has been received that the Governor-General will be present at the ceremonies on .lune 27.
'I he Prime Minister has also intimated his intention of being present, and there will probably be other members of the Cabinet, members of Parliament from all over the Dominion, as well as members of Maori tribes from all o’, er the North Island and some from the South island. Tuesday is expected to be the day on which the great milk of Hie Maori visitors from other districts will arrive, and they will be welcomed in traditional custom. The following days will be devoted to sports and entertainments with tribal meetings. A hockey tournament under the jurisdiction of the East Coast Hockey Federation will be played on New Plymouth airport grounds, the tinals on I Saturday at Waitara. There will be I f.’i’c]'.-.- football matches on Thursday raid Saturday, that on ’ Thursday baling Taranaki v. Wanganui Maoris, ’and the Saturday match will be East Coast v. other Maoris.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 June 1936, Page 3
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