OBITUARY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11948, 6 March 1917, Page 3

OBITUARY.

HON T. PARATA, M.L.C- , [P»* Psws Assocu-nos.3 DUNEUIN, March 6. : Tho death is raki of the Hon Taamo lUeaeroa , Parata, M.L.C., aged eighty. The Hon Taame (" Tommy'") Parata, who wai, one of the most respited members d: the T <*«< • served for many years as -Ni-F. «ot thi. Southern Maori district ketore »«? and' appointed to via' *>pper ;a-ousc_ tK. was a half-easte, and on in s mothers sid? was of his;h linear m the South islam! tribes, the Npni-Vahu arm i<ga.>iALunoo. He urns horn on the i?laini of Kuapuke, in Foveau:; Strait, m lb.},. Hi*.- father was Captain rrapp an American whaling captain, woo settler. r,n the New Xnahmi coast tor shorewhaiina. asid bis mother was h raugahra. woman closely lvlnted to hihawa.iki the oelekrat-d oiuef ol H.uapuKc who owned, a trading schooner ar.u ligured in many warlike cpu-onos of the oa! \»w Zealand d«ys. l» M-< • «■«»'■« Paviifcu w:\s bronchi up to svanlane, P'.iohtuiv" ■'Jones's tvlmiu.p, slaiaop, (near tho mouth oi the \\ aikouaiti River. Oujr.l. in a Mam' l whalohoiit, I snd at Ka.-Jiai.r. near Puuotn-atfi. I whore, hi.- > most or his ii:e (.-!f.iva('in.'i; ;• brei J arm. At the moil I;i lm o \-- led for SDf.u; year 1 -' v. :i!i ru.\ noem. wi--Jchbu tihereroa '.'urn bo iomicu th.< j pikP smriro at <!lap;> Heads. Ik. r|ho became known. a ii) e boai man, an > I Po Pad ;>'.-.t;v n roim;> ,-xpenfiey ;-u - i -lap, the pilot, aboard tin; «ailiu,u >h:< : joii' rho J.ie.ml. Later bo was cnfiape I las a .-rochman up country, am! he i chovo me lis of rattle up in O-iund 'Otaof m tin', 010. ;.cti!d-rusii d:; >■>•.. ! 1.0 the Seventies Air Tar;!!;) eii!};ac;ett 1 hi tho v.imliap; buwrn-s a;. VVaik'.ni;uli j Heads. He bad a hoar- station in a jliulo b.'iy on tiio Pn-o-To-AVeia Peoim I .sida, v.'no soniilio.ro. licad, known nowadays as the .Kunlane Ten-

insula- It is a little i'urthw scsi-wmiyl than the site of Johnny Jonos'-; cele bra'ceu station ol: the oarly U;iys. _l In; ;H:ninstjto. oue.f rhu lorrrc K s «5 f.imr.iis (ifvhtiis!* ciuef oi' <>!«. "i> Wora wiii !iit excelit'iit spoi i<n* ft | sta'Mon, and hmv. Varatfi » arta •>«. I)*" 8 ! craws carried cm with considerable sut; of'ss. until, as the old wiiulrrs tav, i-h.: itict CRftC of si onnior trfilV.c ;tion;x J Ik> eejtsf. *ric;hte;»o<l the whales away. 'I Ijo ro/iiains of vbe old trying-out- woi-lv«. aii<l eapstiin. t»s.ed lo hoave up the j !>i(H.os of l.liibiior sin tin ■> were euv. 'Vii. ] iirc ht-iU ii? he ■fori: Oil the nort.hei-a :oVle o,i tlso potiiost'i I-!. Mot iar Iront I): ! Tvnhy Kill!/, t'e^uietiee. tn lßHt> ;\lr riram iva-s ch^cud' to Pa"a:i rcpreser.t ivrive- et' tho Soutn fsl;iit(t' Mac:"!-., au.oi 'a 1 ivl-nhi'd Wi> 1 for tiiin.y year,., v.idil lie i+:tlrod o.fiug to tiie hucdtui of a-:.r. t,le. oaai sjefia! a t,i.eiix;on io flic nuctr ion «d seent'ino; i'lotls tor !.ao ; -•, Aitvoris lite South Uuud. aiid by his obtained for t,lw-*m iaia.,.-. in houthia id, Ot'i 7■. t 'atirerijup,'. Wfsvla ir.i, X' .hoi; and Marlborough, cuiiouu: tiu\ in all i-> over 3oli.0()(. acres. 110 wa.s an arci'eus .uivocafco ior Native sehooly lor tic -'-ilucation a;ui general adviiitt'OinciU', of it!s riico.

Taame Parata's 'Maori could.be. traced back to tfie time of cfio traditional migrations from HawaiKi. Fie was a direct descendant of the navigator Tamai.ca. the eaptain of ih> Takitimu cuno • which arrive*! from <ho Eastern t'acil'.c six hundred years a;;o. After landing same of his companion Oiow the Nj-'ati-Porou tribe) at I'ovrrty Ray, and some (now the Ngati-Kulm n.'Minu tribe) at i'awke's Ray, Tamatea in his canoe proceeded <m sonthwat-i. until ho miched Murihuku (.Sout.hbind), where ho landed, and his lomi and' vernarkaliSe voyage ctane to an end. Tbo canoe 'fakit'im. still lies there, not now, however, ay her chief knew her then. but a lofty mountain, so irnnsiormod by the hand oi: time; that is the story oi tlie Maori. The place is known in the Europeans as ido Nightcaps and to the Maori as Takitimu- Taame Parata was .also a descendant oi Paikeaariki, n famous demi-gud of anenmt days, and a,n ancestor of the. Maori. Paikea -,vas ;tn nrikj, or priest-chief, in Hawail-d, and was invited by Ruaiapi. in the fatal canoe, in which 1-lU firs;born chiefs of the housoy were uecoyeu from tl"..'ir Jioim-s. After paddling '.(• ii:id-ocean they wee all destroyed by itnatapn, except Paikea-av'ki. who, b> tho aid of his maide si«.:!l.s, commanded' his atua (pod) Paikea. a whale <■<• water m u I 1 back t It u 1 ' The 1 u I i >i i el | I Te-pii i (tl | phi;;), I lit s i I J t the d 1 1 ? ' i I the rjh t tit ir } i 1 l been \ 1 sr 1 < n i } it peoph n •> I H ( ||] , tral lan K 1 in tl r o h U \ liis p< i ! nd i \ i Ith i ed a K s l x '< 11 it'ir in up i i tiling i 1l i t tl *i ] ii its tr t ' t i

Mr Charlo« (Taare) Parata, M.p. rnd other tviouukts of the family arrived from W-elliuyioi, <ln> nier-niutr ou their way u, tho eld' homo at Pukeiir'iki. PROFESSOR SAL3IOND. [PIJ?. P»?RS ASSOCIATION.] DIINEDIN. March li. The death is anno-mced of Dr William Salmond, Emeritus Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy at the Otago University, aged eighty-two years. fine lato Dr William Salmond was born in Edinburgh on February 9,1835,and was educated at Hcriot's Hospital, the Edinburgh High School, the University of Edinburgh and at the Berlin University. From 1858 to 1876" he was minister of the Presbyterian Church a* Noi\th Shields, Northumberland. In tho latter year he was appointed Pro fessor of Theology of the Presbyterian Church of Otago and Southland, assuming tho duties of tho post in the following year. In 1886 lie was appointed Professor of Mental and Mora! Philosophy at Otago JUniversity, and discharged the duties of that position with marked distinction for many years. His son, Professor J. W. Salmond, is counsel to the Government's Law Drafting Department.)