MAORIS FOR MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 378, 12 June 1928, Page 14

MAORIS FOR MAJESTIC

FOREIGNER’S OPINION

All good New Zealanders re,n—in the Maori people national asset. We have in the finest aborigine people on of the earth. Tet it d o £ sometimes to hear what an e 8004 has to say. an oat sM-

"In the six years that 1 hav. constantly travelling round theV”"' in the interests of my have seen nothing to equal 1 dared Mr. Jan Hendrik. Ro~i *- Dutch-American journalist who rS. visited Auckland on behalf of Hhn Java and American journals. viewed a performance of tI T. * dancers, at the model pa at \-»L wahia. of Princess Te Puea HerfS?*’ toome time ago. he said, a am?' Siamese dancers visited the r . States, and the people ' literalW crazy about them.” But thev in in the same street as these Maortli'The Americans would just "eat if 1 up” if they went across and this sort of entertainment in the Sh. os I believe that Princess Te Puea make sufficient money in one ton Put her social work on a sound Mr. Rogge declared that It intention to bring the movement nt- J Puea Herangi for the uplift of * Maori people under the notice of 2 tain American millionaires. wh o , noted for their generosity in asahr? such developments. “Here you have a movement or. mated, organised and entirely , r ported by a Maori woman ~ unique, and I wish it every said the foreign visitor.

Princess Te Puea and her Maori maM. will appear in a special formance at the Majestic Theatre™ Friday. There wil also be two nu' inees i