MAORI CHIEF’S DEATH
PROMINENT FORMER GOLFER (Special to Times) HASTINGS. Sunday The death has occurred at his home at Walohikt. after a lona illness, of Kurupo Tareha. one of the principal Maori chiefs of Hawke's Bay, the only Maori who has won the New Zealand amateur golf championship, and a noted all-round athlete. Born at Waiohiki in 1870. Kurupo Tareha was the younger son of Tareha Te Moananui. a leading Hawke’s Bay chief and the first Maori member of a New Zealand Parliament. He was one of the founders of the New Zealand Maori Golf Association, and at the time of his death was its patron. Other sports in which he took part were Rugby football, cycling, boxing and riile shooting. He was a member of the Buahine nifle Club for several years and was a keen rifle shot. One of hi* two son*. Kapi Tareha, has tarried on his golfing prowess.
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20505, 23 May 1938, Page 7
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152MAORI CHIEF’S DEATH Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20505, 23 May 1938, Page 7
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