Maori Buildings

Te Ao Hou, March 1974, Page 3

Maori Buildings The New Zealand Mistoric Places Trust has established a Maori Buildings Committee whose function is to consider ways of implementing measures to record and preserve important Maori ceremonial decorated and historic buildings. The venture has the support of the Maori Council, who will be represented on the committee. The Secretary for Maori and Island Affairs will be a member of the committee. The first need is to assemble a basic list of such buildings. The final solution will probably be to use the list as a basis for actual field programmes during which visits will need to be made to all districts and marae throughout New Zealand so that all houses actually standing will be recorded. The Trust is interested in both written and photographic records, details or areas covered, when the record was compiled, and whether any investigation or inspection has been carried out. Any information which will assist the committee will be welcomed by the Director, New Zealand Historic Places Trust, P.O. Box 12-255, Wellington.