A VERSATILE MP.
Does Sentry-Go and Dines with Royalty (Received 17, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, May 16. Mr E. T. Tirikatene, M.P., for the Southern Maori electorate, had probably an unparallelled experience in dining with the King on May 10 as a memiber of the Empire Parliamentary delegation, and in mounting guard at Buekingham Palace on May 11 as a private in the New Zealand Territorial Forces. He had a similar unusual experience when on sentry duty at Pirkbright, on May 8, and he lnnched with the Duke
of Gloucester on May 9, while between times, he was wheeling coal to assist the New Zealand camp cook. Mr Tirikatene never forgets his part. When on guard duty, Mt W. J. Jordan, New Zealand High Commissioner, visited him and asked, "How are you?" but Mr Tirikatene, knowing that Buekingham Palace sentries do not talk, did not bat an eyelid. Mr Tirikatene served in the Great War with one of the Maori battalions.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 102, 17 May 1937, Page 7
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