PLACED IN MUSEUM
CARVED MAORI HOUSE
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, This Day. Between 200 and 300 people attended the practically exclusive Maori ceremony of the re-opening of the carved house of Hotonui, which was removed from Parawai, the Hauraki tribal centre, to bo preserved in the Memorial Museum. After a party of Maoris had exreised any bad spirits that'might have taken refuge in the carved house, tho Governor-General and Lady Alice Fergusson were accorded a typical Maou welcome, and tho aged Mita T-aupopoki conveyed greetings from the Arawas.
Presentation of Maori treasures were made to Sir Charles and Lady Alice, and for Sir Edwin Mitchelson.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 131, 29 November 1929, Page 11
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105PLACED IN MUSEUM Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 131, 29 November 1929, Page 11
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