Mr G. H. Mana

Te Ao Hou, September 1966, Page 4

Mr G. H. Mana Mr George Howard (Uweroa) Mana, Omokoroa, has died as the result of a street accident at Manurewa. He was 58. He was born at Maungatautari Pa, Cambridge, and attended the Maungatautari No. 1 School, and later the Otumoetai School when his parents came to live in the district. When he left school he worked at farming and was employed for 14 years by the three brothers Messrs Gordon, George and Frank Vosper in the Cambridge district. He married Miss Tuhikorae Puturangi and they set up house on the farm. Later they moved to Tokoroa where they were share-milkers. At the end of the contract they returned to Cambridge and Mr Mana began employment with the Ministry of Works at Karapiro. After some time he was transferred to Mangakino and finally to Tauranga in 1952. He left the M.O.W. and worked for some time on forestry work at Tokoroa and Reporoa and then started his own lawn mowing business in the Tauranga district. He was an elder of the Koroki-Kahukura tribe. He is survived by his wife, nine children and 14 grandchildren.