CORDIAL APPROVAL
ROYAL VISIT SUGGESTION INVITATION TO ISLAND PEOPLES P.A. AUCKLAND, Aug. 4. Enthusiasm for the proposal that representatives of New Zealand Island territories and Polynesian and Melanesian peoples in the Pacific should be invited to New Zealand to meet the King and Queen next year was expressed to-day by Princess Te Puea. Nothing would please the Maori people more than to welcome the Island peoples, she said. If an early start could be made, with Government assistance, with the erection of the proposed large sleeping house to accommodate visiting Maoris at Ngaruawahia during the royal visit it would be a fitting headquarters for Maoris and parties of Islanders. The proposal was that the building should be erected largely with Maori funds by Maori labour for permanent Maori use.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26842, 5 August 1948, Page 8
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129CORDIAL APPROVAL Otago Daily Times, Issue 26842, 5 August 1948, Page 8
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