AN OLD IDENTITY

Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 23 April 1919, Page 4

AN OLD IDENTITY

AN iNTEPvESTING PAST. During the reception lo the Maori I Pioneer Battalion at Ohinemutu (soys the "Auckland Star"), Captain Mair introduced an SO-ycar-old Maori ladyMrs Heol Pore —to her Excellency Lady Liverpool, explaining that she was the woman who tended the wounded during tho night after the attack on the Maori pa, viz., 29th April, 1801. When (Ml. Booth, of the 43rd, was carried out mortally wounded next morning, he informed General Cameron that a Maori woman had raised his head on a pillow and b'rought water—that when he offered his- watch, etc', the gifts were refused. It appears that Henri Pore, a member of a small tribe from Mnraetai, beyond Howiek.'ouly reached the Gate Pa on tho 27th April, and, finding there was no room for them in the main work, they enlarged the ditch on tho western sid», converting it into quite a formidable position, and it was the crossfire from this work that, caused bo many losses during the disastrous, retreat. Major Mnir, Dr. Nosbitt, H. J. Clarke, and Captain Mair had abundant evidence us to the above facts.