OBITUARY.
A NOTED MAORI WOODCARVER. Hori Pukehika, the last survivor of the Battle of Moutoa, on the Wanganui river, died at the week-end at Wanganui, at the age of So years. He was a well-known character in and about Wanganui since the settlement became a town of importance. Some fifty years ago he was known to the Maoris, old and young, on the river, and he probably "know more than any other man of/the rapids, currents, and eddies of the Wanganui river. Mr J. H. Burnet, director of the Alexander Museum, Wanganui, states that Pukehika was the last of the old school of Maori woodcarvers. He was 1 a true artist, and had carved some magnificent panels for the first Christchurch Exhibition. He was a learned man, a keen antiquarian, and a life trustee of the Wanganui Museum. Some of his work is preserved nnd valued in Wanganui and in other parts of New Zealand.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20562, 2 June 1932, Page 16
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