MAORI WOMEN'S HOAX

Otaki Mail, 18 December 1922, Page 4

MAORI WOMEN'S HOAX

SIR MAUI POMARE M " ‘ ‘DAUGHTER. ’ ’ It must not be thought for a minute that Maoris really prefer dried shark and pipis to turkey aud triffies. They may do so in the Urewera country, but not in the cities.

A Maori woman with a pipi-income and a triffle-taste recently descended upon one of the suburban hotels in j Christchurch. She had no clothes in j addition to what she wore, and she announced in impressive tones that she was a daughter of the lion. Sir Maui Poinarc. Having secured her room, she went out, and a little while later a telephone ring came to the hotel, “is Miss Romaic in ’ No? Well, this is her sister. Will you tell her that all her clothes will be down in the morning? ’’ ‘‘Mjss I'oiuarc" told the- tale well. Most Maoris can. She had a brace of motor cars 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 (is 9d a week. She had been an “interpretess, ” so to speak, for 15 years, and she had been sent to Christchurch to recuperate after the strenuous session. On the strength of her “relationship” to the popular Maori knight, “Miss Pomare” has secured a fair amount of credit, and this article may serve to let others who may be impressed 1 with the lady’s story know that Sir Maui and Lady Pomare have only ( two children —both young sons.