JAZZ GROUP’S GIFT
“Cheap Publicity Stunt”
(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON. May 5. The Hi-Five jazz group had no authority to make, any presentation to the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh; on behalf of King Koroki i or his people. Mr Pei te; Hurinui Jones, an elder of the I Waikato Maori tribe and spokesman for King Koroki, said. He was commenting on a report in the “Daily Sketch,” London, that the j Maori Hi-Five jazz group! had arrived in England with I a carving depicting the Duke of Edinburgh with two! tongues and a fish’s tail and showing the Queen performing a Maori war dance with ■ her tongue out. The carvings decorated■ the frame of a picture of the; Queen which was to be pre- ’ sented to the Queen on be-; half of King Koroki and his! subjects, according to the re-' port. “The whole thing sounds, like a cheap publicity stunt i without a shred of dignity,”' Mr Jones said. “It is not! the type of thing King' Koroki would authorise or | endorse.”
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29506, 6 May 1961, Page 13
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175JAZZ GROUP’S GIFT Press, Volume C, Issue 29506, 6 May 1961, Page 13
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