At the Waingongoro pali the other day the Maoris celebrated the wedding of two young Maoris —Ahu Rac and Apika Skipper. The "Maiiaia Witness" says: "The wedding breakfast was a lavish :i ITair. Sumptuous hardly describes it. The fact that tlu- cost of providing it ran into £150 will best convey an impression of the display and its dimensions. The four-tier wedding cake, as the phrase runs, was 'the cynosure of every eye.' It was the dominant, glittering fact of the function. The bride (Miss Skipper) was magnificently apparelled, and the attendant bridesmaids were only a little less radiant, the bridegroom being attired on approved pakeha linos. In keeping with Maori hospitality, everybody present was regarded as a wedding guest, and had a welcome place at the festive board.
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 13 November 1917, Page 3
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