VICE-REGAL VISIT
ACTIVITIES IN NORTH ISLAND.
(By Teleyraph— Per Press Association)
ROTORUA, December 17
The Governor-General, Lord loe, and Lady Bledisloe, with Sir A, Ngata and the Rarotongan Chief,; Makatea [finerau, to-day commenced a private tour of inspection of a num-L her of Maori land development sell*/ ernes in the Rotorua‘district. Their Excellencies remain at Rotorua till Sunday, when they leave for . Aucicland to spend ’Xmax. Persistent rain made it necessary to curtail to day’s programme, but the party visited the Horolioro Block, ten miles from Rotorua, where they inspected an extensive area that is being brought into cultivation by the Maoris.
Lord Bledisloe officially opened the new new Horolioro Native School, and was extended a traditional Maori welcome by a large gathering o,f different sections of the Arawa Tribe. The presentation of a handsome carved Maori casket to Lord Bledisloe and of two splendid examples of Maori mat work to Lady Bledisloe was made by Sir A. Ngata.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 December 1931, Page 5
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