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Pohutukawa Tree
The Gisborne Unity Theatre will stage the kiwi-flavoured play, "The Pohutukawa Tree", at the Opera House early next month. Written by New Zealander Bruce Mason, the play has a cast of 20, and revolves round two country-town families, the Atkinsons and the Matairas. The producer is Mrs Merle Bell.
Moe Brown who plays the part of a high caste Maori woman, Mrs Aroha Mataira.
A tense scene in the Mataira home. From lef: Rev. Sedgewick (Bill Doherty), Mrs Mataira (Moe Brown), Queenie (Alice Hayes), Johnny (Peter King), and Roy McDowell (Roger Bodle).
Sylvia Atkinson showing Queenie a dress she is going to give her, while the bored men, Roy McDowell and Mr Atkinson, with Mrs Atkinson, look on.
Mrs Mataira and her two children, Queenie and Johnny
The Atkinson family: Sylvia (Rosalie Scandrett), Mr Atkinson (Kevin Cull), and Mrs Atkinson (Muriel Swindell).
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