The Governor General greats an old Maori lady at Okoki, while Lady Norrie is chatting with a group at the right rear. Another view of the giant canoe-bow which stands over the vault in which lie the ashes of Te Rangihiroa. modern life and Maori culture that Sir Peter Buck. Sir Apirana Ngata and the others tried to establish; the new net they took to sea? Some of the Maori people who stood silently as the ashes were borne to their resting place. That night guests and casket shared the fine carved meeting house and talk and song continued until four o'clock in the morning. An unprecedented and dramatic incident was the playing of tape recordings carrying the voices of Sir Peter Buck. Sir Apirana Ngata. Bishop Bennett and Princess Te Puea. When these ‘voices from the grave’ were heard by the people wrapped in their blankets in the meeting house they were overcome with silent emotion. On Saturday Te Rangihiroa came home at last to the small earth-floor meeting house at Urenui, where he used to sleep and play as a child, and where he learned his first lessons in Maori history and tradition. It looked much the same as it did in 1880, when Sir Peter was born, and there were still many
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