SIR MAUI POMARE
UNVEILING OF MEMORIAL
MAORI CEREMONIES ARRANGED (Per United Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, June IS. In response to an invitation from the committee in charge of next week s proceedings at Waitara for the unveiling of the Sir Maui Pomaru Memorial and the opening of a Memorial Maori Meeting House, advice has boon received that the Governor-General (Viscount Galway) will ho present at the ceremonies on June 27. The Prime Minister (Mr Savage) has also intimated his intention of being present, and the official visitors will probably include members of the Cabinet, members of Parliament from all over the Dominion, as well as members of Maori tribes from all over the North Island and some from the South Island.
Tuesday is expected to be the day on which the great bulk of the Maori visitors from other districts will arrive, and they will be welcomed in traditional fashion. The following days will be devoted to sports and entertainments, with tribal meetings. A hockey tournament under the jurisdiction of the East Coast Hockey Federation will bo played on the New Plymouth Airport grounds, and the finals on Saturday. At Waitara there will be Rugby football matches on Thursday and Saturday, that on Thursday being Taranaki v. Wanganui Maoris. The Saturday match will be East Coast v. other Maoris.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22911, 19 June 1936, Page 11
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