AIRMEN MISSING.

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 91, 5 July 1930, Page 5

AIRMEN MISSING.

(Received 10.20 a.m.) DELHI, July 4. Anxiety is felt for the safety of the airmen Matthews and Hook who ieft~Akyab at six on Thursday morning and were due to reach) "Rangoon this evening Stout have not been heard of since.

his pcoplp that if the money was accepted disaster would befall the Atiawas, and at some time in /the future six leaders of the tribe would all die within the space of half a moon. Early in November, 1927, Watenc died and the tangi lasted many days. On Saturday, June 21 last. Jack Taieki, a man of high rank in the Atiawas died at Waipapa, north of Waitara. On the following Tuesday the death occurred in New Plymouth Hospital of Hoani (Jack) Taylor, the bestknown Atiaw a chief in the Waitara district. On June 30 came news of the death in California of Sir Maui Pomare a famous. Atiawa, born at Urenui, north of Waitara, and on Wednesday of this week Euiha (Mrs White), a Maori woman of high rank, died at Manukorihi Pa in Waitara- This mornink Katherine Keenan, a grand-niece of the famous warrior Te Eauparaha and a close blood relation of Sir Maui Pomare, passed away at the age of 95 in a pa between Waitara and New Plymouth.

Taking half a moon as fourteen days to-day would be the finish of a halfmoon since the death of Taieki. Late this afternooji news was received of the death near the Bell Block factory of a woman, Pareiri, making the sixth death of a prominent Atiawa within a short time. The Eev. K. Hadfiold, who has noon working among the Maoris for a long time, says ho has never experienced such a phenomenal number of notable deaths among Maoris in so short a time.