MONSTER MAORI GATHERING.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11925, 3 May 1907, Page 3

MONSTER MAORI GATHERING.

| TWO THOUSAND ASSEMBLED. Auckland, Mayi2. Nearly 2000 natives from all parte of the North Island have" assembled at Waihi the settlement of the Hon. Mahuta, M.L.C., where a great gathering will commence on Saturday. The objecfe£of the Korero being, so far fas can be learned, the selection of delegates to proceed to England for the purpose of interviewing King Edward, whose intervention is to be sought in righting alleged breaches' of the Treaty of Waitangi by the Government of New Zealand. Whatever the object is the movement is a popular one, and has sjeceeded in bringing together what is said to be the largest gathering held in the Waikato since the death of the late Maori King. Liquor is .strictly prohibited at the gathering.