WAR MEMORIAL UNVEILED.
EAST CAPE DISTRICT. * LARGE GATHERING OF MAORIS. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CJISBORNE, Thursday. Two people, native and European, assembled at Te Araroa, in the East Cape district, yesterday, for the unveiling of a war memorial.
The Maoris prepared a great feast for the occasion, and a welcome was extended to the Hon. K. S. Williams and Sir A. T. Ngata. The natives were led by a party of chiefs singing a Maori lament for the soldiers who failed to return to their hapas. Mr. Williams, in replying, spoke in Maori, to* the great delight of the natives, and proceeded to unveil the memorial, a granite obelisk erected by tho joint efforts of Maoris and Europeans, in memory of the dead of both races. The dedication was preceded by a procession, ineluding 200 returned men.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19931, 27 April 1928, Page 10
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