TOHU WHAKAMAHARTANGA

Toa Takitini, Issue 70, 1 June 1927, Page 598

TOHU WHAKAMAHARTANGA

Mo TIM I WAATA RIMINI. Ko tenei kaumatua, he tangata rongonui i roto i nga mahi nimui o runga i a te Arawa, me Matatua. Ho tangata hold i whanui tana haere ite motu nei, ki te whakahaere ite haina ote kotahitanga o te iwi Maori. I urn nui tenei kaumatua ki nga in alii kawanatanga ote Koroni. He tangata aroha, whai-whaka-aro, mohio, mete kaha ki te arahi i ona hapu, i roto ia te Arawa, tae atu kia Matatua. Ona uri tokorua, he wahine katoa. Ko Merewakana te matamua, no tona tamarikitanga mai ano, ka noho i runga i a Matatua, a tae iho ana ki tenei ra, kaore ana tamariki. Ko Riripeti te taina, ko tenei o raua, i man iho id runga i a te Arawa. Ko ia te uri ote Kaumatua nei, koi te whakatipu i te tangata, kanui te tamariki, kanui te mokopuna. Mate noatu te kaumatua nei, kei te tipu te pa harakeke. Ko tona kohatu whakamahara, he mea pou ki te taha o tona tupuna 0 Tawakemoetahanga. E rua enei taonga nunui, te whare me te kohatu, no Ngati-Whakahemo anake. He tohu no te kaha, me te whakaaro-nui. Enei taonga e rua i tohia kite karakia mihingare. Na Pererika Peneti m : nita o Heretaunga, te kauhau o te kawanga, mete whakapuaretanga o Tawake-moe-tahanga, tokorima ona hoa minita ite whakahaere ite karakia ote whare tae atu kite kohatu. Na to Hokere (Mr E. E. Hockley) mema mo Rotorua, ko ia te mangai ote Kawanatanga, iaia te whai-korero, mete hura i te kohatu. He maha nga hapu o runga i a Matatua, i ekei mai ki tenei hui. I rupeke mai ona morehu Kaumatua katoa, ona rangetira katoa, me ona tai-tamariki marama, whai whakaaro hoki. I eke katoa, mai ki tenei hui, nga kaumatua, nga rangatira, me nga tai-tamariki marama ote Arawa. Ko te kupu nui o roto o tenei hui, hai hopu ma te hinengaro o nga tai-tamariki, ko te tuhonohono i o tatau mahara kia kotahi; i o tatau tinana kia kotahi; kia noho tahi, kia penei te noho taki, me o tatau waka, mai ra ano, o to unga mai i Hawaiki. Ko te Arawa, e tan nei, tae mai ki tenei ra. E nga tai-tamariki, Ida kaha kite tauhere ia tatau, o tena waka, o tenei waka, na Tawake-moe-tahanga tatau i powhiri kia hui mai, na to tohu whakamahara mo Timi Waata Rimini, tatau 1 whakamahara ko Matatua raua ko te Arawa he kotahi, e ki ana te whakatauki:— “Wehewehe ka hinga, huihui ka tu.” E. M. E. TE TIKAO. Ko nga kupu enei kei runga i tana kohatu e mau ana :— “He tohu whakamaharatanga rao Timi Waata Rimini i mate i te 5 o nga ra o Akuhata, 1920. Ona tan 79.” He tangata ia i piri pono ki te mana o Ingarangi, i hapai nui ite whakapono, me te arahi pai i ona iwi e rua, To Arawa, Mataatua. Kei tetahi taha o te kohatu ko enei kupu pakeha: — Sacred to the Memory of Timi Waata Rimini,

A Chief of the Arawa and Mataatua tribes, who died on the sth August, 1920. He was an adherent of the Church of England, a loyal subject of the Empire, and a beloved ' leader of his people. Kei tetahi taha ote kohatu he waka mete paipera kei runga ake, kei tetahi taha he waka, mete hiiri ate Kawanatanga.