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LESLIE GEORGE KELLY Mr Leslie Kelly, engine driver and noted Maori author, was killed in a train smash at Motumaoho last August. He descended from Kenehuru, of Ngati Mahuta, and Edward Meurant. He was given the Maori name of Te Putu. He was born in 1906 and educated in Auckland. His two major works were ‘Tainui: The Story of Hoturoa and his Descendants’ and ‘Marion Dufresne at the Bay of Islands’. He was a senior engine driver; only a few weeks before his death he had passed an advanced technical examination on railway engines.

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Te Ao Hou, December 1959, Page 3

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LESLIE GEORGE KELLY Te Ao Hou, December 1959, Page 3

LESLIE GEORGE KELLY Te Ao Hou, December 1959, Page 3