The Tuwhare Trust is about to get a $100,000 grant from the Environment and Heritage Lottery Committee to restore Hone’s crib. The restoration work will allow the crib to be used as a residence for writers and artists — in what will be the first time a residency will be established in the home and name of a Maori writer.
The trust is delighted that we can preserve Hone’s former home as a vital first step in developing a new writers’ and artists residency. It’s been a few years of hard work by the Trust to raise the funds to fully restore Hone’s crib, but we are now in a position to continue on full steam ahead.
As always, we are so grateful for the financial support that allows us to do this very important work. Hone would be so chuffed, he would definitely be singing a waiata about this great news.
Nga mihi mahana. XX
