GISBORNE SITTING FINISHED
COMMISSION ON NATIVE AFFAIRS.
EVIDENCE FROM MAORI CHIEFS.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Gisborne, June 2.
At the Native Commission sitting Wiremu Potae, an East Coast chief, submitted a statement reviewing the history of East Coast social customs, welfare work and tribal relations. Henare Ruru, one of the tribal leaders of Turanga, spoke of the importance of maraes and commercial gatherings of the tribes. Evidence had been given at Auckland that money had been wasted on tangis and meeting houses. If the money had come from the Maori purposes fund he considered it proper, as he regarded such money as the property of the Maoris. His people desired that lands should remain under the East Coast Commission and not be transferred to the Native Trustee.
The Gisborne sitting of the commission has concluded. The commission will sit again at Rotorua on Tuesday.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 June 1934, Page 4
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