mokopuna katoa. I nga korero whakamarama a Apirana Ngata, i tana pukapuka, e Nga Moteatea, ka tuhituhia e ia te whakapapa o Hinekitawhiti raua ko tana mokopuna, i heke iho nei i a Makahuri, mokopuna a Tuwhakairiora, rangatira nui o Ngati-Porou. He korero no Ngati-Porou, ‘Kaore te rangatira e whakapapatia’. No te mea, e tino mohiotia ana te rangatira. Na Tuwhakairiora katoa a Ngati-Porou. E mohiotia ana nga rangatira. Ngati-Porou, a kore rawa au i rongo he rangatira a Hinekitawhiti. Ko te nuinga o nga whakamarama kei Nga Moteatea. arms sings the oriori and gently swings her in her arms bidding her call on her relatives from Tokomaru to Raukokore in the Bay of Plenty. Chiefs and chieftainesses on the way are mentioned, and also historic places. Sir Apirana Ngata gives the oriori as the first song in his book of Maori songs, Nga Moteatea. He traces the composer from Makahuri, grandson of the great Ngati-Porou chief, Tuwhakairiora. The singer, in a flight of poesy, exalts her little grand-daughter to the highest, but the composer's name is not amongst those of well-known chiefs and chieftainesses of the Ngati-Porou tribe. (1) Umu, haangi, or Maori oven. (2) Paekura, name of a tribal ear pendant. (3) Waikanae, name of a historic greenstone weapon or mere. (4) Taro, a choice vegetable. * * * For the visit of Her Majesty the Queen, the Government invited to New Zealand seventeen chiefs and other leaders from the Island Territories. The number included eight representatives from Western Samoa, six from Cook Islands, two from Niue and one from Tokelau Islands. Members of the party combined a sightseeing tour of the country with visits to industrial and agricultural centres, and in Wellington they attended several of the functions in the Royal programme. They were accorded traditional Maori welcomes at Auckland, Ngaruawahia, Hastings, Ruatoria, Rotorua and Christchurch. * * * At the time of the 1951 census just on two-thirds of the total Maori population of just over 115,000 was registered as being full-blooded Maori. The figure was 76,918. The number of Maori-European halfcastes was 23,183, and the number of Maori-European three-quarter-castes as 15,201.

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