MAORI GENEROSITY
FOR RED CROSS FUNDS. [ Per Press Association. ' AUCKLAND, Oct. 8. I Wot weather considerably marred the celebrations ot the seventh anniversary of the coronation of King Koroki. which were held in Huntly today. At Waalii Pa, Huntly. West, many guests, including a number of officers of the Maori Battalion at Hopuhopu, were entertained with hakas and other Maori dances. Princess Te Puea Herangi, of Ngaruawahia, who was one of the guests, handed over to King Koroki £IOOO. which she and other 'helpers had raised during the last 12 j months for Bed Cross funds. This .money was later officially given 1 through an interpreter to Mr A. 15. j Gibbons, president of the Waikato | centre of the New Zealand lied Gross Society for the centre’s trust fund. A further cheque for £SO wfl6 handed to the Mayor of Huntly for the Huntly Patriotic Committee’s funds. The money had been collected among the j Maoris at the celebrations. y ■
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 267, 9 October 1940, Page 11
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