WEMBLEY.
PARTY OF MAORIS. TROUBLE ON STEAMER, BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT . LONDON, June 16. A. party of forty Maoris to take partin the Wembley tableaux have arrived in the liner Barrabool. The voyage from Durban was marked by much unpleasantness, Rhodesian passengers raising the colour question, and the tension became most .acute till Australians and New Zealanders, sympathising with the Maoris, threatened to throw the Rhodesians overboard. After that there was less trouble. The Maoris had the second class quarters of the ship to themselves and did their own cooking.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 June 1924, Page 7
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