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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 341, 22 August 1889, Page 3

The Napier News says:—We have been shown the Maori house which it is proposed to send to Dunedin shortly to be erected at the Exhibition. The house, which is a wooden one, is of course all in pieces, and is lying at the back of the Athenteum. It was procured from Tomoana by Mr A. Hamilton, at the request of Dr Hocken, of Dunedin, and is Shfiat one of the best specimens of a Maori residence that could be obtained in the North Island. Every board, which has apparently been hewed out of a tree, is beautifully carved and bean high testimony to the patience and perseverance of the natives of old in connection with the execution of work of this particular kind. The house when erected at the exhibition, will stand about 52 feet high and Will be JO feet long, Mr Hamilton has not obtained the windows or doors yet, the structure in question never apparently having had any, but he can procure the missing articles from some other pah. When complete the concern will be Kipped to Dunedin. The structure should prove a valuable addition to the big show. It will excite the curiosity of thousands of visitors from Other lands, who probably have never seen such an original piece of workmanship before. It was intended to obtain t email family of Maoris to live In the where during the time the exhibition was in prognsi, to be employed at intervals in making mats, etc., for the edification and instruction of visitors, but this proposition jn»>n*t- yet been definitely' settled. The |dea Is all very fine theoretically, but practieally it is feared it will not work. A family bt natives might be obtained for the purpose, b“t those interested seem tg think that they would be difficult to manage when they got there.

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