MAORI WOMAN’S HOAX.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4500, 6 December 1922, Page 4

MAORI WOMAN’S HOAX.

SIR MAUI POMARE’S “DAUGHTER.” It must not be thought tor a commit that Maoris really prefer dried shark and pipis to turkey and truffles. They may dp so in the Urewera country, but not in the cities'. A Maori woman with a pi pi income and a truffle taste recently descended upon one of the suburban hotels in Christchurch. She had no clothes in addition to what she wore, and she announced in impressive tones that she was a daughter of the Hon. Sir Maui Pomare. Having secured her j;oom s'he went out, and a little while later a telephone ring came to the hotel. “Is Miss Pomare ‘in ? No ? Well, this is her sister. Will you tel! her that all her clothes will be down in the morning ?” “Miss Pomare” told the tale well. Most Maoris can. She bad a brace of motor cars —a Studebaker and an Overland —and she was employed in her “father’s” Department of Native Affairs (which, by the way, is not Sir Maui’s Department) at a salary of £29 6s 9d a week. She had been an “interpretess,” so to speak, for 15 years, and s!he had been sent to Christchurch to recuperate after the strenuous session. On the strength of the "relationship” to the popular Maori knight “Miss Pomare” had secured a fair amount of credit, and this article mn serve to let others who may be impressed with the lady’s story know that Sir -Maui and Lady Pomare have only two children—both young sons'. —“Sun.”