Te Rangi Hiroa Finds
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Last Resting Place
THE NZ Maoris having worked out their differences on place of interment, the ashes of Sir Peter Buck (Te Rangi Hiroa) were finally laid to rest in August—two years 8 months after his death.
Sir Peter, a leading authority on Polynesian affairs was, at the time of his death, the director of the Bishop Museum, Honolulu. During his association with the museum he had been a member of expeditions to most of Polynesia and to Poly nesian outliers in the western Pacific.
His ashes were carried to New Zealand late in 1953 and held in Parliament Buildings pending com pletion of the tomb at Otaki, New Plymouth. The tomb, a Maori canoe prow of modernistic design, faces north, symbolising Sir Peter’s life in the Pacific Islands.
The interment, which followed a three-day ceremonial journey from Wellington, calling at Maori Pas en
route, was attended by the Gov ernor-G ener a 1, Sir Willoughby Norrie, and Lady Norrie, the Min ister of Maori Affairs, Mr. Corbett, and the four Maori MP.’s. The memorial was unveiled by the Gov ernor and the burial service was conducted by the Bishop of Aotearoa, the Rt. Rev. W. N. Panapa.
If Miss Diwani Krishanan, of Lautoka, Fiji, left for Australia re cently where she will do a three years’ nursing course at the Bal larat Hospital, Vic. She was a former student at the Natabua Indian Secondary School, Lautoka.