COLLECTION DRAGGING

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22319, 2 May 1947, Page 4

COLLECTION DRAGGING

NGARIMU V.C. FUND Maori money collected for the Ngarimu Scholarship fund totalled £9BOO, but the collection was dragging, stated the Bishop of Aotearoa, the Rt. Rev. F. a. Bennett, at the Maori synod in Fcilding this week. It was agreed that all tribal committees should be approached with a view to obtaining the £25.000. which would carry a Government grant of the same sum, aimed at originally. The Maori people must never be accused, Bishop Bennett added, of forgetting the glorious deeds of their only V.C.-holder, the late Lieutenant Moana-nui-a-Kiwa Ngarimu. The sum collected was less than half of what it was set out to collect and the question was how were the Maori people to augment that fund? he asked. Mr Hueroa Marumaru reported that Wanganui’s quota of £2OOO had been subscribed and would be forwarded to the Education Department, and Mr A. T. Carroll, Wairoa, said that a similar sum from the Wairoa people had been sanctioned by them and now only waited the approval of the Native Minister. Mr, P. Fraser, for transfer.