Craft and technology
PA Hamilton Customers of the new Ngaruawahia Post Office will find the latest telecommunications technology side by side with traditional Maori crafts.
The new post office, designed to harmonise with this age of electronics, data processing, telex, computer? id
t elex, computers an« satellites was opened by the Minister of Maori Affairs, Mr Wetere.
It features carved panels, a gift to tbe citizens of Ngaruawahia and district from Te Arikinui Dame Te Ata-I-Rangi-kaahu.
Mr Wetere said the panels, placed along the counter, symbolised the meeting of the Waikato and Waipa rivers, traditional Maori means of
transport and communication, and the introduction of European technology. While the carvers worked in the classic tainui tradition, tukutuku (woven) panels which also adorn the counter were designed by a group of young people to portray post office telecommunications of the twentieth
century, Mr Wetere saia. “The weavers stretched their imagination and their creative skills to interpret their own art forms. The tukutuku panels depict digital telephones, stamps, computer chips, data processing, computerisation, and satellite and international communication,” he said.
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Press, 27 January 1986, Page 4
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