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H. R. Jones photo Geoff Henry photo as physical, to brace your people to their full share of the future’. It was on education, he said, that the whole future of the Maori race depends. After this the building was dedicated by the Rt. Rev. W. N. Panapa, Bishop of Aotearoa Then His Excellency declared the building open, and unveiled the Roll of Honour. Later, two thousand people gathered for an official luncheon. A marriage of great interest took place on 20 July when Horowai Ngahuia (Bubby) Ngarimu married Huriwaha Maniapoto at Hiruharama near Ruatoria (see photo at left). Bubby is the youngest daughter of Mrs Maraea Ngarimu of the Whanau-a-Apanui and the late Mr Hamuera Ngarimu, who was a member of the Ngati Porou tribe. Huri, who comes from Tokaanu, belongs on his father's side to Ngati Tuwharetoa and on his mother's side to Te Arawa. Bubby was formerly secretary of the Maori Women's Welfare League and later taught at the Correspondence School, Wellington. She is the sister of the late Lieut. Te Moana Ngarimu, V.C. Huri, well known as a Maori All Black, is a sheepfarmer. The couple will make their home on his farm near Tokaanu. The Auckland diocese of the Catholic Church plans a Maori religious, social and cultural centre on a site near Newmarket. Miss Mary Shelford of Panmure (see photo, upper left) was crowned Queen of a carnival held recently, which altogether raised £8,000 toward the cost of the centre. The people in the photograph above are some of the members of the Ataahua Maori Club and the Auckland University Maori Club who entered three floats, representing stages in the history of the Maori people, in a city procession held during Auckland's ‘half a million population’ celebrations earlier this year. The floats portrayed the pre-European history of the Maori, the time of first contact with the European, and the present day.

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