Sir Earle Page Entertained.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 September 1938, Page 4

Sir Earle Page Entertained.

The advisability of closer cooperation between Australia and New Zealand was stressed by speakers at a State luncheon given by the Government yesterday in honour of the Rt Hon Sir Earle Page, G.C.M.G., DeputyPrime Minister of Australia and Minister of Commerce. The function was attended by Ministers of the Crown, members of both Houses of Parliament, and heads of several State departments. The Prime Minister, the Rt Hon M. J. Savage, presided. Two toasts were honoured —“The King” and “Our Guest.” The proposer in each instance was the Prime Minister. A civic reception was also tendered to Sir Earle Page in the Council Chamber at the Town Hall, Wellington, yesterday. The Mayor Mr T. C. A. Hislop, presided, and the Hon P. Fraser, De-puty-Prime Minister, represented the Government. Eastern Maori Seat. The national executive of the New Zealand Labour Party announces that Mr R. T. Kohere, Te Araroa, has been selected to contest the Eastern Maori seat. Mr Kohere is a prominent member of the Ngata-Poru tribe, which inhabits the East Coast. The last of the line was Lieut. H. Kohere, who fell at the Somme during the Great War. Mr Kohere’s grandfather was the son of the Hon Mokena Kohere, the first Maori to be elected to the Legislative Council. Mr Kohere was educated at the Gisborne Central School, Te Aute College, and Canterbury College. He was assistant tutor for several years at the Te Rau Theological College, Gisborne. After his ordination he took charge of the Te Aroha parochial district, and on the departure of his brothers to the front he resigned and took up farming on the East Coast, where he is still living. Mr Kohere was one of the founders of the Young Maori Party, to organise which he accompanied the late Sir Maui Pomare on a tour of the Hawke’s Bay district. The selection of Mr Kohere completes the Labour Party’s list of candidates for the general election.