"MAGGIE THE GUIDE."
o DEATH IX EXGLAXD. Information has been received by Bella, the well-known guide at Rotorua, of the death in England of her sister. Mrs Staples Blown, at the ago of about fid years, Mrs Brown will be bettor remembered by Urn thousands of visitors to Rotorua as Maggie Papakura, the popular guide. Both sisters (says the Auckland Star) were educated at Hukarcre Girls’ College,. Napier, and a striking feature of each was their beautiful enunciation of the English language, Maggie _ Papakura, in particular, had a most musical voice, and like her sister, was strikingly handsome. They were very popular with visitors from abroad. Maggie Papakura acted as guide to many distinguished visitors, including the present King anti Queen, when they visited Rotorua in 1901- While on a visit to Ensland she married Mr Staples Brown, and the war she kept an open house for New .Zealand soldiers, both in Loudon and at her home in Bicester. Oxfordshire. Several years ago Mrs Brown paid a visit ( to New Zealand. and she intended coming here again next year. Latterly she took keep interest in Polynesian ethnology, and she was associated wi tb Oxford Uiversity in studies of tbs
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21010, 26 April 1930, Page 11
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