MAORI CENTENARIAN DEAD
WOMAN REPUTED TO BE 114 YEARS OF AGE (P.A) WHANGAREI, April 17. Mrs Ngaronoa Pukeroa, reputed to be 114 years of age, has died at Ahipara, a Maori settlement at the southern end of Ninety Mile Beach. She was the oldest Maori in the far north, and was stated to have remembered the building of the first church in Kaitaia, over 100 years ago.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 67, Issue 159, 18 April 1947, Page 6
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