“Make Her Burden as Light as You Can”
MAORIS AND CREMATION APPEAL FOR LADY POMARE Press Association WELLINGTON, Tuesday. “It is my opinion that the authorities insisted lipon the cremation of Sir Maui Pomace's remains and that Lady Pomare had little option in the matter,” stated the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, Leader of the Opposition, this evenMr. Coates has written to the Akarana Maori Association and to several of the West Coast tribes who had telegraphed him on the matter, stating that a cablegram received from Lady Pomare suggested that she had but little option. The authorities had either insisted or she had no power to return the remains in any other than their .present form. “I cabled Lady Pomare.” states Mr. Coates in the letter, “asking her, on behalf of the family, the Maori people and our party, that. Sir Maui’s body be returned to New Zealand. You will realise that my cablegrams did not reach their destination until some time
after the ceremony. I ask you io consider all the circumstances and to make the burden as light as you can for our sister. Lady Pomare.’'’
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1019, 9 July 1930, Page 1
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