CREMATION OF SIR MAUI POMARE.
IIORRI FIBS TARANAKI MAORIS. New Plymouth, Last Night. News of the cremation of the remains of Sir Maui Pomare lias sent wave of horror through the Ala oris of North Taranaki who, for some days, have been making arrangements for a huge tangi when the body svas brought to New Zealand and buried in his birthplace, north of Waitarn. A leading 'Maori stales that the whole of his-racc is pained to an indescribable extent over the cremation tints violating a sacred Maori tradition.
“Me hope and pray,” he sa-vs, “that such a thing will not be introduced into our race. It would have been tar heller if his bodv had been laid to rest in California. I •■>lll speaking right from (he back of I lie heart of my people.” A. meeting ot AJaoris is being called tin’s week-end wiili the object of dismissing the position and (lie general feeling is I inn the cremated remains should be kept in Wellington as they are not wanted in Taranaki. \
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4474, 5 July 1930, Page 2
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173CREMATION OF SIR MAUI POMARE. Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4474, 5 July 1930, Page 2
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