CHIEFTAIN DEAD
WELL-KNOWN AT ROTORUA Special to THE SUIT ROTORUA, Today. A well-known chieftain of Whakarewarewa, Hira Ringa-matini, has died at the age of SO after a long illness. He was not a chieftain of the Arawa tribe but of a branch of the NgatiTuwharetoa people. He was associated with Mita Taupopoki, another leader at Whakarewarewa, where a large tangi is being held. Ringa-matini possessed a medal given him by Queen Victoria, and he fought with Captain Gilbert Mair and Colonel Whitmore against the Hau-Hau rebels in skirmishes and raids in the Bay of Plenty, the Urewera Country and Taranaki. Within a week or so, the Rotorua district has lost two natives prominconnected with Maori affairs, Ringa-matini and Mrs. Staples Brown, who died in England. Neither was actually of the Arawa people, for Mrs. Brown, known in many countries as the Rotorua guide, Maggie Papakura, was actually a member of the Tauranga tribe, Ngai-te-Rangi.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 958, 29 April 1930, Page 11
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154CHIEFTAIN DEAD Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 958, 29 April 1930, Page 11
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