MAORI GATHERING AT RATANA
THREE SACRED DAYS.
By Telegraph—Press Association Wanganui, December 27.
The groat Maori meeting at Ratana was concluded to-day. Three sacred days were Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. The gathering ranks as one of the most extraordinary on record. There were about four thousand Maoris from every part of New Zealand, and ranging In age from a man who has forgotten., how old he is to a child born on Christmas morning. Ratana and Anglican and Wesleyan ministers delivered addresses and there was much praying, one prayer meeting continuing till 4 o’clock in the morning. Ratana exhibited a covenant book signed by 19,000 Maoris. It had been his intention to keep the book open for one year only, but he hns decided to keep it open for another year.
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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 80, 28 December 1921, Page 4
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131MAORI GATHERING AT RATANA Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 80, 28 December 1921, Page 4
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