MAORI DEPARTMENT.

White Ribbon, Volume 22, Issue 263, 18 May 1917, Page 7

MAORI DEPARTMENT.

Since 1 arrived home from Convention, I have received nice letters from Mrs llamana and Mrs Manakau, our first Maori delegates to Convention. They express themselves as having been very pleased with the kindness of our Auckland sisters, and also of all the members assembled there, and mmh interested in all the work, of which they now feel that they have a better understanding. They wish to tell us that they heartily support the resolutions passed at Convention against drink and other evils, and that we may now depend upon their Unions for support in this work. I hey have already talked over this amongst themselves. Mrs Nathan reports that Mrs Lee-Cow ie most kindly held a meeting amongst the Maoris before she left Auckland, and that she herself and Miss Weymouth hope to carry on the good work begun there. N. F. WALKER, Supt. Maori De^’t. Pahi Kaipara, Aperira 2nd, 11,17. Kite tumuaki o nga ropu katea on o he nei iroto ite temini ona o Niutireni huitahi ki oumena honore enoho maihei iroto ioou whare ariki iroro ingamana aki tanga ato tatou ariki mana nei tatou imana aki kinga mana aki tanga ate Wairua. Ko matou kote roopu kaumatua otenei takina kawhaka mihi atu kiteroopu imana aki tia ai 0 matoa wahine iuru. Nukitehui kuinganui o nga roopu ote motu kua kua hoki ora mainui kia matou irunga ite rangi marie ite atauhai ite aroha nutepone kua ronga matou. Ngatake ote huinga nui ote roopu ara kote takahi ite waipiro inenga mahi he katoa keite tautako katoa nuitou genei take komatou Ronga kaumatou menga taitamariki kua tua katoa hei karakia iroto TTe haaka Weteriana tautoko ingamahi ate ropu. Kia ora, Nate roopu kaumatua. W IHIRIW HI HEMANA.