LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 24 November 1927, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

On Monday next the children attending the Havelock North District School will sit for their proficiency examination.

The Maroro Shipping Company have decided to abandon to the underwriters the Maroro, stranded at Blackhead, refloating the vessel in :ts present damaged condition being regarded as hopeless.

“Not one drop of missionary blood was spilt in winning the Maoris from barbarism and cannibalism to Christianity before the Maori Wars look place,” said the Rev, Seamer of the Methodist Maori Missions at Tarudale last night.

A lantern lecture of great interest will be given in the Assembly Hall. Hastings, to-night, at 7.45. The travel talk on Palestine and Egypt will he given by Mr Alex Mill, of the Egyptian General Mission', and illustrated bv a fine collection of slides. Admission is free. A large audence is anticipated.

A telegram was received, yesterday in Dunedin by the secretary of the Shipwreck Relief Society from, the Mayor of Napier (Mr J. Vigor Brown) stating that two of the Maroro's apprentices were stranded in Napier, and they desired to get back to their homes in Newcastle (Australia). Mr Brown asked if the Shipwreck Relief Society could render assistance. The Society has decided to vote £lO to each of the apprentices to assist them to return to their homes.

“A hundred years ago New Zealand was inhabited by 400.000 Maoris and 2,000 whites. To-day it has 1,250,000 white people and 56,000 Maoris. Where are the rest?—We are the remnant of a strong ana vigorous people who are now a dying race. It is the duty of every Euro pean to help us along. Hein us get on the ladder so that in time we will be able to care for ourselves.”—So spoke Make Reweti Wharehura Rangipiura, chief of the Arawa tribe at Taradale last night.

At the Oamaru Magistrate’s Court. William Clark was charged that, with intent to obtain an allowance under the Family Allowance Act. he did make a wilfully false statement to the Registrar of Pensions. It was said that the defendant had been working for a local firm and had been earning £248 during the twelve months preceding the application. The cash was the first under the Act. The defendant was ordered to nay the costs. 10s, the Magistrate stating it was a serious matter, the defendant being liable to a fine of £lOO or a year’s imprisonment.—Press Association.

“The Maoris, under the laws of England, were prohibited from taking any part in the Great War, but they petitioned Parliament to be allowed to go. Why ? Because they loved their country and because they loved their King. Many of those who fell sent as their last message to their people in New Zealand ‘Love one another,’ ” said Make Rewetu Wharehuia, elder chief of the Methodist Maori Mission at Taradale last night. The chief, who is a member of the Arawas. has been a resident of the King Country, and has expert knowledge of the rebel tribes.