"TANGI" AT PUKETTRAKI.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13999, 4 September 1907, Page 2

"TANGI" AT PUKETTRAKI.

.'A "-tangi"-' is}proawding'at tho ; Maori : Kaika. Puketiraki. ovor'tho remains of Poti Parata, wife of Tame Parata, M.H:R., a Maori lady of noble, birth, having a long "line; of ancestry ''running'' back. 40 "gc'ncra'tions.' '■'• ' ■' , •■'■' ■'■■•:'''•' , " "''

Sho was a direct descendant of tho.great Maori chieftains,- To Aotaumarewa;"]To Ruahikihikijr'Taoka, Kuri,' and Rarigitanc',': who played.m prominent part, in tho.jiirfory of Now Zealand before 'tho>adTcnt'of' the pakoha. Her. mother, To Wiarerimui married Captain. Brown, R.N., ono of the first Europeans who; caine to thov colony in pursuit of the whaling and seal industry, whioh flourished in thb .district ,ih the early' .twenties. Deceived was a oousin of Major Brown who visited England in command of the -Maori Contingent on tho occasion of tho Quijen's Jubilee. She leaves a large family to niourn thoir losr—namely, 'John Tv'Paratft,'Mrs John Elieon, Thos.;H.• Parata, Miss;Taini Parata, Pukntiraki: Mrs Maurice Topi, of Ruapuko; Mrs Olivo- : Evans. ; and W. T. Parata,™qf Dunodin;/Mrs Geo. Taiaroa, oi Otnkou;'Mr H. Parata and Mrs Tai: t<l Tau, of "Wairarapa; and Mr 0.- R. Parata, of Wellington. ...■••'.'■. . s ,''■ '.'■■',■ ''''■, ■Mossasces havo.boen eent to every kainga ; in tho South Island. : whore the deceased lady's relatives' 'reside,-L also to "other relatives in the .i North Island, Euapuke, and Stewart Island.., . . . ■v- ''

Mourners are arriving daily- 'by every train/and much preparation iB being mado to accommodate them. ". ■ ' ■