MAORI ARTS
FOSTERING STUDY. BOARD SET UP. ANNOUNCEMENT OF PERSONNEL (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, November 30. In order to foster the study and practice of Maori arts and crafts and in accordance with the act passed during the last Parliamentary session a board has been set up to execute the functions of the act. The personnel of the Board is announced by the Minister for Internal Affairs, the Hon. R. F. Bollard. The Board, the members of which number eleven, is enumerated below:—
Chairman, the Minister for Internal Affairs.
Deputy-Chairman; the Under-Secretary for the Department of Internal Affairs.
The Hon. Sir Maui Pomare, Minister for the Cook Islands.
The Hon. A. T. Ngata, M.P. for Eastern Maoris.
Archdeacon H. W. Williams. (All three members to represent the Maori Purposes Fund on the Control Board).
Dr. P. H. Buck, Director of Maori Hygiene, Auckland. The Under-Secretary and the Engineer in Chief of the Public Works Department.
Mr J. McDonald, Assistant Director of the Dominion Museum, Wellington. Mr W. Page Rowe, the artist, and an enthusiastic member of the anthropological section of the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Institute.
Mr H. Hamilton, Dominion Museum, who is to be Secretary of the Board.
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Southland Times, Issue 20042, 2 December 1926, Page 8
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202MAORI ARTS Southland Times, Issue 20042, 2 December 1926, Page 8
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