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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 47, 23 February 1917, Page 6

Mr. G. H. Hockfng. of , Sydenha-m, Chnstchurch, wlio.has just returned from Melbourne . and Sydney, after a three months' trip for the benefit of his health was shown while in Melbourne, the charm which Te Kooti, the Maori rebel leader, wore during the war. The present owner of the relic is a friend of Mr. Hocking. He is -Mr. Thomas Manallack, of Union-street, ' Brunswick, who obtained it through the late iJr John AVatson, of Auckland. The charm is an o'val-shifped piece of light-coloured stone, probably inanga greenstone, from Mr. Hacking's description, and is'carved in the form of three birds' heads, the heads representing in Maori idea- the islands of New Zealand. It is inlaid with paw a shell. To Kooti wore this ornament round his neck when, he was sent as a prisoner' to tho Chatham Islands, and he gave it to the little daughter of Dr. Watson, then military surgeon on the Chathams, on the occasion of - liis (Te .Kooti's) marriage to a Maori woman prisoner. The little girl, at hisrequest, was permitted by Dr. and Mrs. Watson to be a. bridesmaid at the reoel chief's marriage. There is ii proposal to purchase the relic for the Auckland Museum. " "