ARAWA TRUST BOA

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 516, 27 April 1933, Page 4

ARAWA TRUST BOA

MEMBERS SELE&t RiESULT OF BALLOT pnL SEATS NOT YET RELEASED TWO N1E!W REPRESENTAl In accordance with the :om, numerous conference> j Arawa tribe attended by if Native Affairs, Hon. gjt p Ngata, and presided over \ Qnder-Secretary of the Nati?! oartment, Mr. R. N. Jones, haYtS neld in th'e Rotorua district V aection with the selection of j|! if fifteen to constitute .fte l Trust Board for the next%of For these fifteen seats, 4] J tions were placed before the for selection by common choice, members of the tribe butit^ th'at in the case of four-repjj tives of sub-tribes, unaniifiit? e aot be secured. According to t|5l sions of the actit was therefore^ sary to determine these fouj , by ballot of the tribes eoncertsa this election was "undertaken « urday last in the Rotokawa anj Goast districts. -'"ij Keen interest was generally ] in the voting for the respec% didates, but although the preli® returns have been checked i protests have to be considere|the results of the ballot ndvis the Under-Secretary and the His of the Native Departmeijt hefer, can he made loiown and gaze| is expected that this 'procedpip occupy at least & week. The decision of the hapus ic^ to eleven of the fifteen seahi made lavailable for publicatia terday and in these thft ,naipj new members to the board arei The following are those selected; out the necessity for a ballot: H. Tai Mitchell. "./j Kiri Tapsell. Pini Haupapa Hepetore Hikairo j W. Wihape Mahina, Mikiha *Ati Keepa *Raimoana Heretaunga Kepa Ehau *Sam Emery 1 Tamahana. Gardner ,■ .. =1 *New members. j