MAORI CENTENARIAN
DEATH NEAR WANGANUI Mr. Tamehana Kohiti, believed to have been born in the year that the Treaty of Waitangi was signed (1840), has died at his residence at Kauangaroa, about 14 miles from Wanganui. Born at a settlement on the Wanganui River, then known as the Knowsley River, at about the time the first European settlers were arriving. Mr. Kohiti lived through some very adventurous years. He lived all the early • part of his life on the river, and then settled at Kauangaroa 37 years ago. Almost right up until the last he could recall the stirring times when there were two blockhouses in Wanganui—the Rutland Stockade and the York Stockade. He could tell many stories of battles along the river and the work of the friendly Maoris.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22242, 30 January 1947, Page 3
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