PATRIOTIC MAORIS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20102, 23 November 1939, Page 8

PATRIOTIC MAORIS

‘BRING AND BUY” DAY BIG EFFORT TO-MORROW Under the auspices of the Poverty Bay Maori Women's Patriotic Committee, which has adopted the name of Hokowhitu-a-Tu, a further effort to raise funds for patriotic purposes will be made to-morrow at premises lately occupied by Mr. E. A. Evans, in Fitzherbert street. The effort will take the form of a “bring and buy’’ day, and will be conducted by the whole committee, which proposes to continue the programme of joint effort until early in the new year, when individual areas will be given special days in rotation. . Already the committee has received promises of generous support from Maori residents of the Poverty Bay district who are anxious that this distinctively Maori effort should register a success comparable, in its smaller dimensions, with that obtained by the general committee which conducted the Show catering on behalf of the Red Cross. Donations of poultry, meat, and produce have been promised, and the shop should be well stocked as a result of the enthusiasm aroused among the native community. The - support of European residents is solicited for the effort, and in this connection it will be remembered that Maori support was in some part responsible for the success of the Show catering, which raised over £SOO for general patriotic purposes during the last three weeks. The East Coast Patriotic Funds Council has given its sanction to the Maoris’ project, in connection with which a statement of accounts _ is to be filed with the council in due course.