MAORI MEETING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 126, 20 July 1911, Page 5

MAORI MEETING.

(Per Press Association.) Auckland, July 19. Business in connection with the native meeting was resumed this morning at Huntly, and in the afternoon at Waahi. The receiving of signatures was concluded ,and all were relieved when this tedious and wearisome work was ended to-day. There has been a considerable influx of natives from Te Kuiti, Kihikihi and other parts of the King Country. The brass band which accompanied the Te Kuiti natives received an especially warm welcome. The presence of the band will serve as another source of distraction, and will not conduce to the rapid accomplishment of the business. On Tuesday night two -children, about a year old, died, so that on one corner of the marae a tangi is proceeding, the mourners keeping up a mournful wail as they sit round the sides of the tent, in the centre of which the remains of the little ones have been laid out; in another corner the brass band discourses merry music, and tempts exponents to show their skill at the haka. , On the east side of the marae cooking by steam proceeds, and thus the lights and shades of native life with its bold and striking contrasts vividly impress visitors.