MAORI DIES AT 100
OLD WOMAN’S REMARKABLE KNOWLEDGE Special to TUB S I7A" NEW PLYMOUTH, Today, mi, Maor * woman who was at least o years old, Mehi Rameka, has died wait gare k u - * n Taranaki in recent tn S ’r> lnany Maori elders have gone te Reinga, Polynesian Beyond. Mehi Rameka was the eldest child an influential Ngati-Awa chief of iton la , st centur y, Rameka te Amai. ' ,e( “ at Mahoetai pa, where there a grim battle between Europeans d Maoris years ago. o'd woman had a. remarkable tha Wlet * Be ee * s - She could repeat "correct incantations necessary for tln,,i u eels, and was able to disin a t or nine species, giving the story of each species indgSng the time to fish for each Mehi Rameka knew many d aßt J> forgotten by the Maoris of toanJ’., Planting crops and for sea u5 iT ? r Ashing expeditions. , “uaband, Inla te Ngongohau, of «, “ me a 6° yielded his trusteeship \it« 6 oU Maori stronghold, Tapu th» aU ** a ' The ancient village is on Wa- coas,al district, inland from h»t t a on the Ikaparua River. It time*' 6611 v<FH t e d in the Crown for all
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1029, 21 July 1930, Page 1
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