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Hawera Star, Volume L, 10 April 1930, Page 17 (Supplement)

Three Taranaki members of the Maori race who have, in their widely different spheres of activity, rendered invaluable services to their people and to New Zealand generally, are pictured above. Sir Maui Pomare. whose career is briefly sketched elsewhere on this page, lias lived to see many of his dreams come true, thanks 1o his line talent and indomitable energy. Hone Pihama served the cause of Maori and pakeha well in the difficult early days of colonisation. He. perceived that resistance lo the invasion of the pakeha was useless, and he turned his undoubted talents and line integrity into channels which smoothed the path of the pakeha, to the ultimate advantage of his Maori

brethren. He has left behind an honoured name on this coast. The Rev. Robert Had don, of Normanby, is a Maori who typifies the best characteristics of his race. As Dominion Superintendent of the Methodist Maori Missions and as an earnest worker in the cause of the social improvement of his people, lie is known throughout New Zealand. 11 is niana is high with Maoris and pakeluis alike wherever lie has travelled during his 2!) years as a lecturer, but nowhere is it higher than in South Taranaki. Of him it, can be truly said that he has done much to interpret, the Maori to the pakeha. and the pakeha to the Maori, thus paving the way for mutual respect and understanding.