INTERRED IN TOMB.
MAORI LEADER'S BURIAL
KINDLY MEMORIES OF RUA. (By Telegraph.*—Own Correspondent.) WHAKATANE, this day. Glorious weather prevailed to-day for the last day of the tangi of the Maori leader Rua, and many natives and pakehas arrived at the Matahi settlement this morning. Visiting Maoris came from as far away as Taumarunui. Although Rua claimed to be a prophet, and in life was the funeral was conducted by the Rev. J. Laughton, of Taupo, of the Presbyterian Mission, with whom the prophet had apparently always been on good terms, and who supervised the work of the Presbyterian missions in the Urewera Country. The remains were laid to rest in a massive concrete tomb, 10ft by 6ft, containing a ton of ccment. Rua's past opposition to authority has been quite forgot-.en in this district, and he seems to be held in kindly memory by both pakeha and Ma^ri.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 49, 27 February 1937, Page 12
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