PROMINENT MAORI DEAD.
Per Press Association. GISBORNE. This Day. The. death has occurred of Meri Woodbine Johnson, 81 years of age, widow of Mr James Woodbine Johnson, formerly a well-known pioneer Poverty Bay farmer. Mrs Johnson was a daughter of a prominent Maori of the Ngatikahungunu tribe and the mother of Lady Pomare. She was greatly respected throughout her life by pakeha settlers and was a keen church woman and sports patroness.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20556, 6 March 1935, Page 8
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72PROMINENT MAORI DEAD. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20556, 6 March 1935, Page 8
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