OBITUARY.

Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17570, 8 March 1929, Page 5

OBITUARY.

ME. H. W. URU. <By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. March Tlie death is reported of .Hr. H. “. Uru, late M.P., for Southern Maori. The deceased was about- town yesterday morning and’'suffered a seizure at # his home at Wellington late in the afternoon, dying at the public hospital : half an hour, after admission. His fotody is being taken to-night to Tuahiwi, Kaiapoi, for burial. (Henare Whakatu Uni, ex-M.P. for the Southern Maori seat, was born at Tuahiwi in 1872 and was the son of Huani Uru, a descendant of Tu Ahuxiri, of the N’Tu Ahuriri tribe. In 1915 he married a pakeha lady, the daughter of Mr. Thomas Rodgers, of Albury, New South Wales. He was a noted albhebe in his younger days, having represnted Canterbury in 1889.95. In 1900 he was the’ Soiithern Maori representative at the opening of the Federal Parliament in Australia, and again at the Commonwealth celebration in 1901. In 1922 he was returned to Parliament as the representative for the Southern Maori seat in the Reform interest, a position he held until the last election, when he was defeated by Tau Makitanara, of the United Party. He was a member of the Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry -and of the Maanunui Maori Council. Ha also served on the Board of Maori Ethnological Research, to'which he was elected in 1923. He is survived bv a widow, two sons and two daughters.)