CHIEF DEAD

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 795, 16 October 1929, Page 1

CHIEF DEAD

ONCE FAMOUS FOOTBALLER GREAT TE AWE AWE LINE from Our Oxen Correspondent PALMERSTON X., Tuesday.. Manawatu district Has lost JJflure* its most picturesque Manawaroa Te Awe Awe. Rangitane and the Raukawa tribes. died ori un «*y at His Home at Rangiotu. He was 62 years of age and was Cognised as one of the most prominMaoris of the Wellington Province. Te Awe Awe line played an important part in the history of the -Manawatu district. Manawaroa Te Awe Awe was the Hare Rakena Te Awe Awe, D-*4cipal chief of the Rangltane people, he became chief of the NgatiUkawa through his mother’s family. r ough the Rangitane line, he was r ectly descended from the high chief k the Kurahaupo canoe, which was a of the Tahitian migratory fleet. n his mother’s side, he could claim *«cent from the important Tainui n °o- He was a nephew of the farachieftain, Peeti Te Awe Awe. in ose memory the people of PalmerNorth have erected a statue. The merston North Post Office chimes a * s ° named after the great chief, inawaroa was once a prominent ,°otballer. He went to Te Ante Coland played against the 1888 New and Maori team and for Hawke’s against Stoddart’s English fifteen. Manawatu. X ***• reat War, he devoted himself patriotic work. The New Zealand camp was held on prp- **** l»nt by him. .__