MAORI FEUD ENDED

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 234, 15 September 1934, Page 15

MAORI FEUD ENDED

King Koroki Visits Rotoiti Tribes By Telegraph—Press Association ROTORUA. September U Paying the first visit of any Maori King to Arawa territory since 1883 when the first king Tawhaio visited Maketu, Koroki, the newly-crowned king, accompanied by Princess te Puea and a party of over .70 leaders of the Waikato, Ngapuhi, Tauranga and I'aupo tribes, were to-day welcomed on the kianga of the Ngati-Pikiao, one of the larccst -üb-trihcs of Te Arawa. residing around the shores of Lake Rotoiti. Picturesque traditional Maori cornmonies were associated with the wetcome, the Ngati-Pikiao mustering in fore* to greet the vis,tors with waving torn fronds and branches of trees I'he ceremony inaiked the healing of a long--.landing ureaefa between the Agati-Pikiao and the Waikato tribes, and in speeches made by the leaders of the two parties hope was expressed that it would lead to reconciliation babetween the whole of Te Arawa and the Kiug party. A large bad erected on the Ngati* Pikiao kianga was dedicated by two tohungas attached to the king’s party with traditional ceremony and to tho accompaniment of the ancient chants sung by the Muons of old on these <X> casions. Koroki then turned the key in the door oi the hall, in which a large conference of the tribes represented wag held during tho evening.