DEATH OF MAORI CENTENARIAN.
Many people will regret- to hear of th* death of P>ia Tikini. of Puketeraki, wife of the late Tikini- Pahau. at, the age of 109 years. She passed away at the residence of Mr Henare Parata on the 19th ircst. Ria Tikini was born on Ruapuko Island about the year 1810. Those who aro conversant with the different Maori histories nnd conversant with the history of the Kaiapoi raid by Te Rauparaha, will find in the Rev. Mr Stack's book on Kaiapoi that the raid happened about the year 1827. At that time this oldi ladv was about 17 years of age, and thin will attest /lmost her exact age. The old larly cam*? from one of the principal eubof the Nguitahu and Ngatomamoa tribks.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3410, 23 July 1919, Page 27
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