Opening Ceremony at the New Maori Council Hall, Arowhenua, near lemuka.
This building waa erected to replace the one destroy d by fire, and cost £500, of which JE2OO was given by the New Zealand Government. The hall is 84ft x 24ft, with a stage, 12ft x 24ft. The name of the hall is "Te Kapa o nm tirene,' which, translated, reveals the foremost, object for which the hall was built— namely, debate in connection with certain unfulfilled promises of the New Zealand Government with respect to certain • grants of land.
Tlie prepared food is placed upon white-he t stones, after which it is covered over with . green watercress, mats, and earth, until the food is cooked.
Back Row (from left). Lieut. A. E. Wolstenholme, Lieut. W. M'Lean. Capt. A. Washer. Lieut. J. X. Barclay. Capt R. Crawfoid, V.D., Lieut. J. Jack Second Row: Capt. A. M. Loasby, Lieut. S. Geoige, Lieut, fi. 1. Emerson. Lieut. W. M'Kenzie, Lieut. J. D. Cameron, Lieut. R. J. Biemner, Lieut. J. Douglas. Third Row: Capt. A. Dempster. Capt. and Adjt. A. Stoneham, Major S. Myers, V.D., Lieut.-Col. E. R. Smith, V.jj., Surg.-Major W. J. Will, V.D., Lieut. J. Monciieff, Capt. R. N. Johnston, V.D. Front Row: Lieut. H. Longworth, Capt. A Johnson Lieut. J. Aitcheson, Lietat. W. Begg. Lieut. S. B. Ussher, Capt. J. M'Ara. -Esquilant, photo.
Musical director of Mr J. C. Williamson's Opera and Musical Comedy Companies, who died last month at Sydney. M. Caron recently left the Williamson Repertoire Company in Wellington on account of thebreakdown in his health, and went across to Sydney. — Tomlinson, photo
Miss Tittell Brune (L'Aiglon) to the French Duke : "Looked at in certain lights, I think this (.ilie tri-co ou;) is the more effective.'
Spokesman (to artist, whose patience is becoming exhausted after waiting a good half—From Punch.. hour for the correct position). "We'll soon 'aye 'im all right now, Zurl"
Opening Ceremony at the New Maori Council Hall, Arowhenua, near lemuka.
Otago Witness, Issue 2675, 21 June 1905, Page 45
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