ARAWAS AND PRINCESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18176, 23 August 1922, Page 10

ARAWAS AND PRINCESS.

TRIBAL WEDDING GIFT.

MUOH-PBIZED POSSESSION. In thanking the Araws> tribe for the weeding present they sent her, Princess Mary wrote to the Prime Minister of New Zealand as follows r^ "Dear Prime Minister,---May I ads you to express to the Arawa tribe my most grateW thanks for the wonderful symbolio gift which they have sent to me, and for the loyal and affectionate good wishes by which their present was 'accompanied. Will you tell them mat from bencaforth I shall always count* " Tajngaru" among my greatest teeasuree, and shall never look at this beautiful token without remembering the loyal Mends from whom it came, «md fihe long history it has had among their warriors both in peace and war. I. should like tha Arawaa to know that Sir Francis Dillon Bell himself brought thio gift to Cfaesterfield House and gave it into my hands. He told me of his visit to the Hot Lakes district, and described how—at the opening of tha new tribal meeting house on the day after roy wedding--some of the chiefs of the Arawaa gavehhn trie greenstone ornament, and asked him to Turing it to England as * wedding gjft tome. I wish all the Arawa tribe fully to understand with what pleasure I accept their gift, x wA how heartily I thank them.--Yonrß, etc., (Signed) Majit,"