THE MAORI KING
CORONATION ANNIVERSARY PATRIOTIC GIFTS MADE (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, Oct. 8. Wet weather considerably marred the celebrations in connection with the seventh anniversary of the coronation of King Koroki. which were held in Huntly to-day. At the Waahi Pa, Huntly West, many guests including a number of officers of the Maori Battalion at Hopuhopu, were entertained with hakas and other Maori dances. During the afternoon, Princess Te Puia Herangi, of Ngaruawahia, who was one of the guests, handed over to King Koroki £IOOO, which she and other helpers had raised during the past 12 months for Red Cross Funds. This money was later officially given, through an interpreter, to Mr A. E. Gibbons, president of the Waikato Centre of the New Zealand Red Cross Society for the Centre’s Trust Fund. A further cheque for £SO was handed to the Mayor of Huntly for the Huntly Patriotic Committee’s funds. The money had been collected among the Maoris at the celebrations.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24424, 9 October 1940, Page 9
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