MAORI NAMES
BAPTISM OF CHILDREN COMMEMORATE EL ALAMEIN Maoris attach much importance to the bestowal of names. Two infants recently born at Tuahiwi will be baptised; at a ceremony there in a fortnight's time. The question now agitating the elders; is the selection of appropriate names for .them. One family group the other day discussed the Maori rendering of El Alamein. A close relative of one of the children had fought there. They compromised on "Aramaina." Onotlier member of the familj' had suggested "Herena," the Maori version of Hellenes, a compliment to the Greeks. Others have followed the ancient tradition of bestowing the names of the men who have fallen on newborn infants. It is doubtful whether his officers would recognise "Hironi" as Ceylon, one of the names borne, by a sergeant with the Maori Battalion. Ceylon commemorates the fact that an uncle of this soldier, a wellknown member of the Arawa tribe (and grandson of the famous guide, Sophia), died there at the time of Hironi Wikiwhi's birth.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 48, 16 February 1943, Page 5
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169MAORI NAMES Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 48, 16 February 1943, Page 5
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