LATE WI PERE.
DISPUTE OVER MEMORL&L,
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) GISBORNE, Friday.
A memorial to the late Wi Pere, proproposed by a Native committee, was sanctioned by the Borough Council for erection in a public reserve. After the work had been begun a petition was circulated against the proposal by survivors of tfie Poverty Bay massacre aud others. The council decided to hear both sides in conference to-day. .No decision has been reached, but it is believed that a committee of the council decided to recommend the full council to allow the memorial to be erected on a site original ly fixed on the waterfront.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 45, Issue 13751, 1 February 1919, Page 5
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