MAORI-SPEAKING AMERICAN
First Visit For 47 Years (N.Z. Press Association) HASTINGS, March 14. An American who has not been in New Zealand for 47 years addressed an audience of 400 Maoris in fluent Maori at the Hastings Mormon Chapel. He is Dr. Francis Kirkham, from Utah. He used to teach Maori to Mormon missionaries at the former Maori Agricultural College, Bridge Pa, Hastings. He is now 85. Dr. Kirkham came to New Zealand at 19. After three years among the Waikato Maoris he could speak Maori fluently.
He returned to New Zealand in 1915 and wrote a book on Maori grammar. He later wrote another book in Maori.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29772, 15 March 1962, Page 3
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