CAPTAIN W. T. PITT
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GISBORNE, Thie Day. The death has oeeuiTed on his 60th birthday of Captain W. T. Pitt, a leadlng member of the Maori race. Oaptain Pitt served with the first New Zealand contingent in the Boer War, and on the outbreak of the Great War joined the first Maori contingent, seemg service at Gallipoli and France. In recent years he has been a Maori welfare officer under the Native Department, taking a prominent part in land development schemes. 1'n his caiiier years Captain Pitt was a prominent footballer, captaining Poverty Bay for several years. Latterly he was a tnexiiber of tlie Maori Rugby Advisory Board, a
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 115, 1 June 1937, Page 6
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