LATE SIR MAUI POMARE.

Wairarapa Age, 26 August 1930, Page 5

LATE SIR MAUI POMARE.

PREPARATIONS FOR BURIAL AT WAITARA. BIG GATHERING OF MAORIS. NEW PLYMOUTH, August 25. Upon a high bluff Within an enclosure of Manukorihe Pa overlooking the town and placid river of Waitara, is almost completed a vault which on Sunday will receive the casket containing the ashes of Sir Maui Pomare. The vault will ultimately be the base of a monument in memory of Sir Maui and another groat Maori leader, Wiremu Kingi. No memorial could be more fitting. Behind are the buildings of the pa, to the left an old cemetery wherein lie so many ancient Maori warriors, on the right beyond the road a slope to the sea, in front and below the river and Waitara and beyond the rolling acres of green fields and the stately cone of Egmont. Upon the arrival of the casket at Waitara on Friday, four Maoris dressed in mats similar to those worn by their forefathers, will bear it to the pa, where it will be placed in a small tent until the final obsequies on Sunday. Taranaki Maoris are making preparations for thousands of visitors to the pa. Many have already arrived, including parties from the South Island and one family from the Chatham Islands. The supply of food collected already includes five thousand eels and ten tons of potatoes.—(P.A.)