LAID TO REST
MAORI CHIEF AND NIECE “MIGHTY TOTARA AND SAPLING” . ... (Per Press Association. —Copyright.) • ' TE KUITI, This Day: : There was a very large gathering, of " representatives of native and European.-. friends at the pa at Mangapeehi when.the bodies of W-ehi Te Rimgitangap ■ a*-. ; — chieftain of the Ngati-Maniapoto tribe, 1 and his niece, Mrs Waiti Taunaha Pai, of Mangere, Auckland, were, given full. 10i ; Maori tribal rites and laid in iheir r,.-y----last resting place on the hill behind l .-•
the pa. . The service was conducted by ,thp ; ;;. r . Rev, \V. W. Tanapa, of Auckland, who ,r----spoke in Maori and English of “thp-w mighty totara and the skpling who. .had fallen.” . ...!-.
Among the mourners were the Maori ~. “King’’ Koroki Mahuta and his suite, and his uncle, Kuroki Hunng, _ t , and also Mr Taite 'to Totfio, M.R.,,alii.. . close relatives of the deceased.
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Northern Advocate, 9 April 1934, Page 9
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