RINGA-TU CULT
LEADER’S REMAINS REMOVAL TO ANCESTRAL HOME P.A. GISBORNE, Apl. 14. During discussions preceding the Waiapu Maori Diocesan Synod, Sir Apirana Ngata announced to the assembled delegations that the tribal ban against the removal of the bones of Te Kooti, who marauded Poverty Bay in the sixties, to a last resting place in the Gisborne district had been removed. Sir Apirana read a telegram from Mr Reta Keiha, stating that his family would relax the old ban against the attainment of the rebel’s last wish. The representatives of the Ringa-tu Church of which Te Kooti was the founder and the first priest, heard the news impassively. The removal of the Gisborne Maoris’ objections was influenced by the desire to bring about a reunion of the Maori churches. Te Kooti’s remains now lie in a secret burial place on the shores of Ohiwa Harbour, near Opotiki, and the cherished desire of the old rebel that his remains should be in the ancestral soil has been treated as a prophesy by his followers.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26748, 17 April 1948, Page 8
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