Renowned Maori Dies Aged 90
mm. i ■ WHANGAREI, Dec. L Itone Tua Motukiw.i, one of the most ' reriowried personalities of the olde/ genefation of Maori, has died at his' Matangirau hOme, aged over 90. Kutnvrt to all as Kotukiwi, he was the son of the woman who, as a-. girt, was the sole a'urvivor of the massacro at Okahumolto, a high* bluff at the head of Pekapeka Bay, which is just insido the north head of the Whangaroa Har* bour. His mother wTas abseiit at Mangonui when, in 1826, Hongi Hika ambushed the Maoris livirig on the north shdres Uf the harbour and ffung the survivors over the high ciiff:. Motukiwi was, tcnown to lay va verbaf elaiiii, on the basis of his descent from • rthe sole Hurvivoi' of Hapu, to the Uwner sffeip of Peach ^slandj Taupo Bay," and 1 a considerable area of the surrounding j disfrict. ' ' ' 1 '
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Chronicle (Levin), 6 December 1948, Page 4
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