DEATH IN MAORI HERO’S FAMILY
Victoria Cross Touched By Dying Woman (By Telegraph —Press Association.) y GISBORNE, October 8. After touching on her deathbed the Victoria Cross won by her grandson, the late Lieutenant Nui-a-Kiwa Mrs. Makere Ngarimu, aged iB, died last night. When the V.O. was taken to Mis. Ngarimu, she smiled, stretched, out her hand, touched the Cross, and said,. Now I am happy to join my grandson. Mrs. Ngarimu became ill the day be fore the investiture ceremony at a gathering in the meeting-house at tue home of her daughter, Mrs. Materoa Reedy. After Mrs. Ngarimu expressed her determination not to die befoie the investiture ceremony, news of her illness was kept from visitors so that tnerc would Ibe nothing to mar the occasion. As soon after the investiture as possible the Victoria Cross was taken to Mrs. Ngarimu on her deathbed.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 12, 9 October 1943, Page 6
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145DEATH IN MAORI HERO’S FAMILY Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 12, 9 October 1943, Page 6
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