WESTERN MAORI NATIONAL CANDIDATE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 150, 1 July 1946, Page 4

WESTERN MAORI NATIONAL CANDIDATE

PROMINENT PART IN COMMUNITY AFFAIRS MR. H. MARUMARU. Selected to be National Party candidate lor tne western Maori electorate, Mr. Hoeroa Marumaru, Apa House, Parewanui, Bulls, though a member ol the .Native Depaitmenl, Wanganui, is still a farmer, owning a property at Bulls vvhicn he still contuous. A member of the Ngati Apa tribe, Mr. Marumaru was born at Parewanui in 1890. the son ol the late Mr. and Mrs. Taraua Utiki Maruma.u, xviio farmed the property, sti.l known as the Apa Hous? farm. Educated at the Parewanui School and To Auto College, Hawke is Bay, he began his career working on his lather’s larm, succeeding to a portion of it on the latter’s death. Of royal blood on his mother’s side, Mr. Marumaru is a great grandson of Meho Kingi Paetahi, the first Maori member of Parliament in the Provincial Assembly, and who was known as •’General Meho Kingi”, as he was one of the Maori leaders who assisted Lhe Pakehas in the Maori Wars. Among the many public offices lha! Mr. Mr.rumaiu has held and some o: which he still holds are that of chairman of the executive committee of lhe Wanganui Maori War Effort Organisation, chairman of the Kurahaupo Maori Council io’ 10 years president of the New Zealand Maor Lav. n Term’s Association lor five years, president of the Wainui-a-rtr. .’’co!ball siib-l’nion for two years, membership of the executive committee of the Wanganui Maori A social ion. the only Maori to be a member of lhe Wanganui County Council '•hairman of directors of the Pare wanui Co-op Dairy Co. for nin° years, a member of lhe Anglican Chure? Board (Maori), a membe" of !h : Wanganui Rehabilitation Committee farm section, and he was a member ol the Morikau Station Committee for 10 years. Mr. Marumaru has taken <1 active nart in the development of native lands, arees which he has llk 11 a : t■, Otf 4 - y

reu, Tikok.no and Manunui land ■ dc\ e opment schemes. I In addition Io his own farming i;e 'was engaged in this work from 192! • til! 1943, when falling eyesight forced 'ihim to resign. When his sight was restored some time later he look up hk; present position of welfare officer for |the Native Department, with head- . quarters in Wanganui. ’ Besides Irarellir.g extensively I throughout Now Zealand, Mr. Marumaru in 1933 visited Rarotonga with a party cm a goodwill lour, and ndlie following year toured Australia.