MAORI MILITARY FUNERAL
The unit during the month provided an escort and firing party for the burial at the Ohinemutu marae of S/M. Pita Moko, Ist N.Z.E.F. The service was conducted by Rev. Tamahori, assisted by Rev. Harawira. The Maori children watched with stilled faces while the escort and firing party took up their places in the courtyard. . A hymn was sung in Maori and there were addresses in the the two tongues. The party then moved off with arms reversed at a slow march while the women wailed their farewell. While the church bell tolled the procession made its way through the village to the burial ground, that promontory i in the lake well known to Maori history and legend.. The burial service was in Maori and when its soft phrases were done, the firing party saluted the dead warrior and the bugled played Last Post and Reveille. Then Kepa Ehau made a farewell oration over the body of his comrade-in-arms while the gulls wheeled over-, head and grey shadows moved over the surface of the lake.
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Arawa Guerilla, Issue 16, 1 July 1943, Page 6
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