Father from Syria, Mother from Taupo His father was from Syria, and had come out to live in New Zealand with his parents when he was a young man. Rowley's mother, a full Maori, belonged to the Pitiroi family at Nukuhau, Taupo—‘There's a big swag of us at home. I'd say about every second Maori you meet in Taupo is related to me.’ Rowley was the youngest son in a family of seven. He says that he was always a lonely child, even when he was surrounded by a dozen or so other children. ‘I knew right from the start that in some way I was different from the rest of the kids—and I didn't like it. I started to brood.’ The latter part of his home life was a disturbed one, and he did not shine at primary school—‘I was no scholar; I'd like you to mention that.’ He was especially hopeless at arithmetic.
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Te Ao Hou, June 1964, Page 14
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155Father from Syria, Mother from Taupo Te Ao Hou, June 1964, Page 14
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