Mrs K. H. Durie

Te Ao Hou, June 1965, Page 63

Mrs K. H. Durie Mrs Kahu Hurihia Durie, wife of Mr Mason Durie of Aorangi, Feilding, died last January after a long illness. She was 78 years old. Mrs Durie was a rangatira of the Raukawa and Maniapoto tribes. A staunch worker and adherent of the Anglican Church, she was closely associated with the restoration of the Rangiatea Church at Otaki, the Ngarimu Scholarship Fund and the erection of the Maori Battalion Memorial Hall at Palmerston North. The Maori Women's Welfare League also received much of her time. She was a life-long member of the Maori Social and Economic Advancement Committee. Mr and Mrs Durie married in St. John's Anglican Church, Feilding, in 1909. They had five children. Messrs Rawhiri and Matawha, Kahu (Mrs H. Taupuna, Bunnythorpe) and Mahue (Mrs L. Paewai, Dannevirke). One daughter, Ruta, predeceased her mother in 1925. There are 20 grand-children and 11 great-grand-children.