LOCAL AND GENERAL
Personal i Mr. and Mrs. McGilligan left to- ; | day to spend a holiday in Napier, i Mr. Snooks, of Raetihi, is at pres- j : ent 011 a visit to Otaki, staying with , [his daughter, Mrs. R. Eaion. Reecl Work in Cathedral ' "ic wiu xasc as lung as the cath- 1 edral," said Sir Apirana Ngata, referring to the reed work in the! proposed Maori chapel in Welling- ; i ton Cathedral. "That in Rangiatea j > Church at Otaki has been up for j 100 years," he said, "ando it- snouldi be good for another ° century: j j although, of course, there is always ' the chance around Wellington of j . the whole place being shaken down | ' by an earthquakes He recahea : that his East Coast people had noi j ; long ago obtained 250,000 kakaho ; from the Foxton district for reed ! ' decoration, and the loc was now ' drying and would be ready for use ' by the end of the year. ••Su:,ir. material is not always on tap," ht ! i added, "so we tliouglit we would get as much as we could while the opportunity offered." Reeds, so .long as they were kept dry, would • last indefimtely.
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Chronicle (Levin), 26 August 1946, Page 2
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