100 YEARS OLD.
REMEMBERED MAORI AVARS. The very last of her' generation in Mnngerc, AVhaknniko Hemi Pai, or, to give her her pakeha name. Mrs Kitty Pai, died last Monday, aged 100 years, says the Auckland Star. As one of high blood her body was given burial on Taupiri Mountain, the sacred burial ground of the AA'aikato people. She was the daughter of Peliimana te Amohati. and the direct descendant of the ancient warrior chiefs, Taniwha and Tehinkai. She, was a member of the leading sub-tribes of the Waikato, and connected with the principal tribes of Tamaki.
Mrs Pai went right through the AVaikato wars in the ’6o’s, and she was at Rangiaowhia when it was sacked by British troops in 1803. There was horn her first child, a son, Palio, who died a short time ago. She is survived by two sons, Jack and Robert I’oi, and two daughters, Mrs Edwards, of Mangere, and Mrs Kirkwood. Mrs Pai was an old identity of Awhitu, Mangere. She lived there for the past 50 years.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 200, 24 July 1937, Page 11
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174100 YEARS OLD. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 200, 24 July 1937, Page 11
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