HOME AGAIN.
FORMER ROTORUA GUIDES.
“DELIGHTED TO BE BaCK.”
Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Jan. 21. “I am delighted to be back in deaf old New Zealand. I have so looked forward to my visit to my Maori people and their friends. It was a great pleasure coming on the Arawa, reminding me of my ancestors crossing the: great ocean of Kiwa in the canoe . Arawa with Tame te Kapua at their j head,”’ said Mrs M. Staples Brown, bet- j ter known as Maggie Papakura, once a famous Rotorua guide, on her return from England to-day. . ~ She will spend eight weeks in the Dominion. Great preparations liaie been made for her welcome at Rotorua, where a liui will ho held. 1 Mrs Staples Brown will he remembered by hundreds -of ex-service men whom she entertained so lavishly in 1915-16 at her beautiful homo at \\ af-ton-on-Thames. She was one of the most popular hostesses who threw her home open to convalscent diggers. She left the Dominion 14 years ago to marry Mr Staples Brown, of Oxford.. She will return in March, travelling across tho United State 3.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 44, 21 January 1926, Page 6
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186HOME AGAIN. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 44, 21 January 1926, Page 6
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