AUCKLAND SPECIAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 172, 1 August 1901, Page 2

AUCKLAND SPECIAL.

INTERESTING POINTS OF MAORIDOM.

(Special to Times.)

Auckland, last night. A Gisborne Maori woman named Menehia Rangi, who arrived at tho time of tho Royal visit, returns to Gisborno next Saturday. She has during the past few weeks been engaged in making valuable mats.

To-morrow Mr Goldie, a young Aucklander who returned from Baris recently, where he had studied as an artist, through an ox-Gisbornite has arranged for tho Gisborne Maori woman to pose for a life-size hand painting, and probably the painting will he forwarded to Paris. During tho Duke’s visit to Auckland Maoris asked thirty guineas for a sitting. Mr Goldie is one of tho greatest artists in Australasia. When the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall were in New Zealand the Natives who assembled at Rotorua, who were much impressed with the interest the Royal visitors took in the race, expressed a desire to present them with a Maori carved house as a memento of a unique occasion. Nothing definite was done at the tinje, bi?t the question was raised at a meeting held after a tangi ovor the remains of Major Fox (Pokiha), Bay of Plenty. Tho Natives decided to build and carve a house, and send it Home as a present to the Duke. Tho dimensions have not been settled, but as soon as they are tho work will be taken in hand. Among the carvers who will bo engaged are tho clever Rotorua native artists who worked on tho -fine carved house at Whakarowarewa, owned by Mr Nelson,