MAGGIE PAPAKURA.
HOME AGAIN.
FAMOUS MAORI GUIDE DELIGHTED. [by TELEGRAPH—PEII PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, January 21. “ I am delighted to he hack in dear old New Zealand. 1 have so looked forward to my visit to my Maori people and their friends. It was a great pleasure coining on tile Arawn, reminding me of ray ancestors crossing the great ocean of Kiwi in the canoe Arawa with Tama To Kapua at their head,” said -Mrs M. Staples Brown, better known as Maggie Papakura, once a famous Rotorua guide, on her return from England to-day. Airs Staples Drown will spend eight weeks in the Dominion. Great preparations have been made for her welcome at Rotorua, where a tangi is to lie held.
Mrs Staples Brown will ho remembered by hundreds of ex-servicemen, whom she entertained so lavishly m 1915-10 at her beautiful home at AVal-toii-on-Thanws. She was one of the most popular hostesses, who threw her home open to convalescent diggers. She left the Dominion 14 years ago to marry Air Staples Brown, of Oxford. Mrs Staples Brown returns in March via (he trans-U.S.A.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1926, Page 3
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182MAGGIE PAPAKURA. Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1926, Page 3
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