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Vol. 15 Issue #1

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Special Interest Group No.76 of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists Inc.

The MIG formed in 1993 & was ratified by the NZSG at the Christchurch Council Meeting on Saturday the 3rd December 1994

Official Publication of the NZSG Maori Interest Group www.rcyachts.net/maori

Volume 15 Issue 1 PEPUERE/FEBRUARY 2008

NZSG MĀORI INTEREST GROUP

TE REO Patron: Vacant

Executive Committee 2007-2008

Please address all correspondence to the MIG Secretary as below;

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CONVENOR : Mr. Peter ALLEN

SECRETARY : Mrs. Brenda JOYCE

TREASURER : Mrs. Brenda JOYCE

NEWSLETTER EDITOR : Mr. Bruce MATHERS

COMMITTEE : Mrs. Colleen PETRICEVICH Mrs. Lorraine RICE

Mrs. Harete PHILLIPS Mr. Owen ORMSBY

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IMPORTANT NOTICES—PLEASE READ! 4

MIG DRAFT AGM AGENDA 6

HORI POKAI OF THAMES BY DON HAYWARD 8

THE JOYCE ‘GOLDIE’ 13

LETTER TO THE EDITOR 14

DAVID WILLIAM GEARY BY CELIA GEARY 15

MIG BOOK MARKS 17

MĀORI KAI 17

STOP PRESS! 18

MIG AGM FORMS—CENTRE PULL OUT -

Please have all material for the next newsletter [Mei/May 2008] to the MIG Secretary before

the 25th Aperir/April 2008

Membership of the NZSG Māori Interest Group is free, but you must be a financial member of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists Inc.

IN THIS ISSUE

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IMPORTANT NOTICES PLEASE READ!

CONVENOR’S CORNER:

Kia ora Members;

I hope you are all coming to Conference at Christchurch. Register before 28 Febru-ary for the lower cost. I hear there are bargain price flights available if you book on line. The speakers will have a great range of topics and as most of us are pur-suing several lines at the same time you

can learn more about where to go next in your research. See you there!

Our Maori Interest Group will be there with a display table along with other In-terest Groups. We will be holding our AGM at Conference and we need you to attend. Your input is always welcome so if you are not able to be there please for-ward anything of interest to Brenda so she can put it on the agenda.

I would publicly like to thank Brenda for being such an excellent secretary and treasurer and Bruce for the awesome newsletters. Also you, our members, who have contributed items to Bruce. Without you we would have no Te Reo

Peter ALLEN Convenor February 2008

EDITORIAL:

Kia Ora;

Happy New Year and welcome to the first

issue of Te Reo for 2008.

At this time of year the NZSG Conference is fast approaching and the MIG AGM will be held during Conference on

Monday 2nd June 2008 Commencing at 1:10pm.

Therefore in the centre of this issue you will find both your AGM Nomination and Proxy Voting forms.

Please have these back to Brenda to arrive no later than Saturday 17th May 2008.

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A draft Agenda also appears on the follow-ing pages.

I have also received two very fascinating articles for this issue; many thanks to Don Hayward and Celia Geary for their support. Don’s article appears on page 8 and is an interesting study into Hori Pokai of Thames while Celia’s article is on page 14 and focuses on the journey of her son David and his discovering and under-standing of his tipuna and the strength-ening of his own Mana along the way.

Celia has also supported our plea for reci-pes – these appear at the back of this issue and they were mouth-watering as I read them for the newsletter, especially the paua fritters (these and pipi fritters bring back some happy family memories with my grandmother and are some of the things this Kiwi kid misses from back home!).

Many thanks again to both Don and Celia for sharing these experiences with us.

Brenda Joyce and Lorraine Rice will be staffing a MIG table at the Wellington open day, Kilbirnie 19th April and there will also be a MIG table at the Thames (Civic Centre) research day 17th May.

Sales of our research booklet Whakapapa: An introduction to Maori family history research have now surpassed 370 copies and is into it’s seventh reprint, which I must honestly confess has surprised me a

little—only because I never envisioned my original jottings back in 2004 would have evolved in this way and I am sure without Brenda’s proofing and subsequent fine tuning it would not have become as popu-lar as it has.

This is a fantastic achievement due al-most entirely to the dedicated efforts of our secretary – thank you Brenda. Prior to Christmas the committee broached the possibility of printing an up-dated version of the booklet and on this regard we would appreciate your thoughts and input on this idea with a view to launching the new publication at the 2009 NZSG confer-ence.

Finally I would like to yet again thank our members for their support and contribu-tions, which has given us a diversity of topics this issue.

As always, good luck with your research in the coming year and please feel free to voice your opinions either through Te Reo or at the forthcoming AGM.

Haere Ra Bruce MATHERS/ Puruhi MATERA Pepuere/February 2008

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MIG AGM—CHRISTCHURCH ‘08

MIG Draft Agenda:

Welcome

Apologies

Receiving Previous AGM Minutes

Convenor’s Report

Secretary’s Report

Treasurer’s Report

Archivist’s Report

Editor’s/Webmaster Report

Election of Officers

General Business— Any other Business

Nominations are called for the following positions for 2008—2009 term:

Convenor

Secretary

Treasurer

Archivist

Newsletter Editor

Research Officer

MIG Webmaster

Lookup Service

Nominations must be in writing and signed by the Nominator, Seconder and the Nominee, all of whom must be finan-cial members of the NZSG—NZSG Mem-

bership Numbers must also be included.

Nominations and/or Proxy Votes should be sent to the;

MIG Secretary PO Box 8795 Symonds Street Auckland, AKD 1035 New Zealand

On the enclosed form(s) or a photocopy of them (see centre page pullout) to arrive no later than Saturday 17th May 2008.

Written apologies and any items for the Agenda should also be sent to the Secre-tary by Saturday 17th May 2008—although verbal apologies will be accepted from the floor at the AGM.

Please consider standing for a position on the MIG Executive Committee as new ideas and fresh enthusiasm is always welcome and is what enables the Group to meet members’ needs and interests—

The positions are not demanding and job descriptions can be accessed through the bylaws link on the MIG webpage—they were also published on page 6 of the Noema 2003 issue of Te Reo.

The more you put into the group the more you will get out of it.

If you would like more information about the MIG Committee responsibilities, please contact the MIG Secretary.

E-mail: MaoriSIG@genealogy.org.nz [Further contact details are on page 2] BM

Date: Monday 2nd June 2008 Venue: St Bede’s College Time: 1:10pm

Members are also reminded to check our website for any relevant news and updates prior to the AGM http://www.rcyachts.net/maori/

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“Art thieves snatch Goldie, McCahons in library raid”

By Elizabeth Binning and Anne Gibson Saturday 6th January 2007

As an introduction to Don’s research into “Hori Pokai of Thames” which follows on the next few pages, I also proposed to reprint the above article which appeared in the New Zealand Herald – unfortunately at the time of printing Te Reo the ‘Herald’ had not responded to my request for copyright permission. Therefore for those members with internet access the article can be viewed at: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=18&objectid=10417942

From: Don Hayward Sent: Sunday, 16 December 2007 12:43 p.m. To: maorisig@genealogy.org.nz Subject: Hori Pokai of Thames

Kia ora to whoever receives this. Reading about the Maori Interest Group in the latest Society magazine, it occurred to me that some research I completed earlier this year may be of interest to your group.

About this time last year I went along to the University of Auckland to attend the official hanging of a portrait by Charles Goldie of Hori Pokai. This painting had been gifted to the University by a couple living in Can-ada who had been given the painting as a wedding gift in the 1930s. The University staff member described the sitter as Hori Pokai Te Ruinga.

Now I have spent some time researching Hori Pokai Te Ruinga because he is a tipuna of mine (I am 1/32 Maori) and I very much doubted that this painting was of him. Hence I decided to investigate Hori Pokai of Thames (as I now call him), resulting in a 3 page research paper with 22 appendices (5 pages of which are in colour). I did not prepare this paper with the intention of submitting it for inclusion in any publica-tion, but, if it is of interest, I would be happy to make it available to readers of your group's newsletter.

I will attach a copy of my report to this e-mail (without the appendices). Don Hayward

Don HAYWARD

Hori Te Ruinga Pokai by C.F. GOLDIE

Where possible, please supply all source and/or reference details with any material submitted for inclusion in Te Reo.

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THE C.F. GOLDIE PORTRAITS OF HORI POKAI

A brief study of the portraits and of the sitter himself.

1. Introduction. The theft from Auckland University in late 2006 of the painting of Hori Pokai by Charles F. Goldie has prompted this study of the known portraits of Pokai and to research information about the sitter himself. The university described the subject of the painting as Te Ruinga Hori Pokai and it is hoped to establish whether this attribution was correct. The painting was not the only item stolen, but was certainly the most valuable. The purpose is threefold; firstly to enable the Univer-sity to correctly identify the sitter, sec-ondly to help clarify for possible descen-dants whether or not the sitter is an an-cestor, and thirdly to possibly unearth some information which will assist the N.Z. Police in the recovery of the stolen items.

2. Portraits of Hori Pokai. Charles Frederick Goldie, perhaps the most popular 20th century New Zealand artist, painted a number of portraits of Hori Pokai. Several books have been published about Goldie and his work, the most significant of which are Goldie, by Roger Blackley, and C.F. Goldie, 1870 - 1947 : His Life and Painting, edited by Alister Taylor and Jan Glen and pub-lished in two volumes. Goldie himself compiled several journals and these, ac-companied by several boxes of other per-sonal papers of his, are held by the Auck-land Museum Library.

Goldie was born and educated in Auck-land. After returning to Auckland in 1898 from studying art in Paris he worked in the studio of Louis J. Steele, with whom he produced perhaps his best known work ‘The Arrival of the Maori in New Zea-land’ which is in the collection of the Auckland Art Gallery. In 1900 he estab-lished his own studio and began painting mostly portraits, firstly of both pakeha and Maori, but later concentrating on

portraits of older Maori with facial tattoos whose numbers at that time were fast diminishing.

One of Goldie’s frequently painted sub-jects was Hori Pokai of Thames, who he first painted in 1905 and who he contin-ued to paint even after Pokai’s death, working from photographs. These were either taken by himself or else were taken by William Hammond, a schoolteacher and amateur photographer of Thames. The known paintings and drawings of Pokai are as follows (there may well also be others):

1905 ‘Pokai, Chief of the Ngatimaru Tribe’, oil

1917 ‘A Toa’s Thoughts, Pokai, a war-rior of the Ngatimaru Tribe’, oil

1919 ‘Planning Revenge’, oil (known to have been exhibited by the Auckland Society of Arts, 1919)

1921 ‘Planning Revenge’, oil (the painting returned from Canada which was subsequently stolen)

1931 ‘Pokai’, pencil on paper

1933 ‘Pokai’, chalk on paper

1933 ‘Sleep ‘tis a Gentle Thing’, oil (exhibited in London and at a Paris exhibition)

1933 ‘Hori Pokai’, oil

1936 ‘Pokai Perturbed’ or ‘Suspicion’, oil

1937 ‘A Midsummers Day, Maoriland’, oil

All of the above are in private collections and no public gallery (at least in New Zea-land) appears to have one of Goldie’s por-traits of Hori Pokai.

No other portraits of Hori Pokai of Thames, or of any other person of that name, appear to have been drawn or painted.

3. Fakes and Forgeries and Reproduc-tions. Many fakes of Goldie’s paintings are

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known to exist, at least 50 and possibly as many as 100, all probably done by Carl Feodor Goldie (nee Karl Feodor Sim). Roger Blackley, an expert on Goldie’s paintings has confirmed that the stolen painting is authentic. The writer knows of no fakes of Hori Pokai, but if any do exist they are probably more likely to be in pencil or crayon on paper rather than in oils on canvas. It is highly likely that there are many reproductions of Goldie’s paintings of Hori Pokai in existence.

4. Two Incidents Involving Paintings (Reproductions or Prints) by Charles Goldie. In 1987 a newspaper reported that a por-trait of Pokai, usually displayed in the Tikitiki pub near Ruatoria, was being shifted to the meeting house of the Pokai (Tikapa) Marae. A Marae member ex-plained that they wanted the painting back because they were all descendants of Pokai, mistakenly believing that the Pokai depicted was the Ngati Porou ances-tor after whom the Tikapa Marae was named. (The news story was headed “Chief back on Marae”, and was re-counted in Goldie by Roger Blackley, but the exact reference is not known by the writer.)

Then, in 1996, an Opotiki man took some paintings by Goldie that were hanging in a local hotel. When he appeared in court his counsel said the man had strong feel-ings for Goldie paintings in the Opotiki hotel and thought it disrespectful that they were hanging in a place where alco-hol was consumed. The number and subjects of these paintings is unknown.

5. Photographs of Hori Pokai. The Thames schoolteacher and amateur photographer Thomas William George Howard Hammond, 1869-1967 (known as William) has left several boxes of papers and photographs with the Auckland Mu-seum. Among them is one photograph of Pokai. His notes tell us that not long before Pokai died C.F. Goldie painted a portrait of him during a visit to Thames.

About this time Hammond took a photo-graph of Pokai and to make sure the tat-too would show plainly went over every line with Indian Ink. Presumably this resulted in Goldie’s first painting of Hori Pokai in 1905.

The Goldie papers at the Museum origi-nally included two envelopes containing photographs used by Goldie in his paint-ings. These have now been removed for incorporation in the pictorial collection. They do not include any photographs of Hori Pokai. The museum also holds pho-tographs of four of Goldie’s paintings of Hori Pokai which were taken by William Beattie.

6. Hori Pokai the Man. So what is known about the Hori Pokai who was the subject of so many of Goldie’s portraits? The books by Taylor/Glen tell us that he lived in Thames and was aged about 90 when he died about 1921. One would expect that such a pub-lic figure would warrant an obituary in a newspaper, but no contemporary obituary has been found.

There was, however, an article in the N.Z. Herald in 1962 which deals entirely with Hori Pokai (but refers to him only as Po-kai). It describes him as a colourful character, well known as one of the last Maori with a full facial tattoo, who spent his later years living at Thames. The article tells that Pokai’s grandfather was killed by Ngapuhi in 1821 at the battle of Totara Pa, that Pokai’s father was taken to the Bay of Islands as a slave, and that this is where Pokai was born. His tattoo indicates that he had once been a slave. It also says he died about 1921 and was buried in the old Maori burial ground at Thames near the site of the old Pa. The books by Taylor/Glen record that there is an obituary glued to the reverse of the 1936 painting “Pokai Perturbed”. This obituary was probably (according to Roger Blackley) a copy of the 1962 newspaper article which, of course, was written many years after Pokai’s death.

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The information about Pokai, in both the Taylor/Glen publications and this news-paper article, appears to have come from the notes left by William Hammond. These seem to be the most reliable source of information about Hori Pokai. Hammond says that Hori lived on the banks of the Kauaeranga Stream about half a mile past the Thames Racecourse and relates several amusing incidents concerning him. He tells that Hori’s fa-ther had been captured in the Ngapuhi raid on Totara Pa in 1821 and taken north to the Bay of Islands where he fa-thered Pokai. The story of Totara Pa, has been told in many places, mostly originat-ing from Matene Te Nga, one of the few survivors. These include: The Writings of Gilbert Mair (the Hammond Papers in-clude a handwritten account of the story as told by Matene Te Nga to Gilbert Mair), Maori Wars of the 19th Century by S. Percy Smith and Totara Pa by Alistair Isdale (copy held by Auckland City Li-brary, a shortened version of which ap-peared in The Ohinemuri Regional History Journal, May 1968, No. 9, p. 9-10), but none of these stories mention Pokai or his father by name.

There have been many reports in the New Zealand Herald about sales and exhibi-tions of Goldie’s paintings, including sev-eral which stated that Pokai died in Feb-ruary 1920. An article in 1935 reported that Goldie was forwarding three of his portraits to the hanging committee of Royal Academy. One of these was his portrait of Pokai ‘Sleep ‘tis a Gentle Thing’ (regarded as one of the finest of the artist’s work). This article states that Pokai was a warrior chieftain of the Ngati-hauwata hapu of the Ngatimaru Tribe and the son of Tuari Netana. Blackley tells us that it was Goldie’s practice to write the titles of his paintings on labels which he fixed to the back of the frames and that sometimes he included the models tribal affiliations. Many of these labels have subsequently been covered or lost. It is possible that the writer of the Herald arti-

cle of 1935 had knowledge of one of these labels or obtained his information from an exhibition catalogue. The information that Pokai’s father was Tuari Netana has been repeated by Hazel Harris in 1962 and Blackley in 1997 but no confirmation has been found. Pokai was said (in Hammond’s notes) to have owned much land, so it is possible there exists in the minutes of the Maori Land Court a record of his entitlement and possibly also his whakapapa.

7. Tuari Netana. Confirmation that Pokai’s father was Tu-ari Netana has not been found. It does not appear to have come from the notes of William Hammond, nor can it be found among the many whakapapa that Hammond recorded. However, there ex-ists a portrait of Tuari Netana which was done in 1852 (artist not known by the writer). This portrait has been repro-duced in the book Moko Rangatira by Ko Te Riria and David Simmons where it is said that his tattoos indicate that he was an aristocrat, the second son of a taio-puru (a person of the topmost rank) and that his father was Waikato Wharekere-here, the paramount chief of the united tribes who was painted by G.F. Angus in 1847.

8. Conclusions. The Hori Pokai of Thames painted by Goldie was not the same person as Te Ruinga Hori Pokai of Ngati Paoa and Ngati Maru who is known to have spent his later years living on Waiheke Island and to have died in 1860 (however they are most likely distantly related). Genealogists, and people of Ngati Maru and Ngati Paoa ancestry, could be inter-ested in the finding (presuming the Herald reporter to be correct) that Hori Pokai of Thames was the son of Tuari Netana and the grandson of Waikato Whareherehere.

Don Hayward, Auckland, July 2007.

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References:

1. ‘Goldie’, Blackley, Roger, (Auckland 1997).

2. ‘C.F. Goldie, 1870 - 1947: his life and paintings’, Taylor, Alister & Glen, Jan, (Martinborough, 1978).

3. ‘C.F. Goldie, 1870 - 1947; prints, draw-ings and criticsm’, Taylor, A. & Glen, J. (Martinborough, 1978).

4. Papers of C.F. Goldie, MS 438, Auck-land Museum.

5. Papers of William Hammond, MS 134, Auckland Museum.

Appendices:

Section 1. (a) “Maori Chief’s Portrait Back from Can-

ada” - University of Auckland, press release, December 2006.

(b) “Goldie Painting back from Canada” - N.Z. Herald article, 2 December 2006.

(c) Copy from photograph of the Goldie painting “Planning Revenge” donated to University of Auckland.

(d) “Art thieves snatch Goldie, McCahons in library raid” - N.Z. Herald article, 6 January 2007.

(e) “Give our art back - you wont be able to sell it, says deputy vice-chancellor” - N.Z. Herald, 8 Jan. 2007

Section 2. (a) Papers of C.F. Goldie - description of

Auckland Museum Holdings under MS 438.

(b) Extract from: C.F.Goldie, 1870-1947: his life and paintings companion vol-ume re Hori Pokai

(c) “A Sturdy Stubborn Chief, Pokai (a warrior chieftain of the Ngatimaru Tribe)” - colour reproduction of Goldie’s 1919 painting.

(d) “Hori Pokai” - colour reproduction of Goldie’s 1921 painting.

(e) Sleep ‘tis a Gentle Thing” - colour re-production of Goldie’s 1933 painting.

(f) Record of sale of “Sleep ‘tis a Gentle Thing” - auctioned by Dunbar Sloane 29 April 2001.

(g) “Hori Pokai of Ngati Maru” - black and white reproduction of Goldie’s 1933

painting. (h) “Little Gem” for $15,000” - clipping of

an article in the Evening Post, 21 Au-gust 1981.

Section 3. (a) “Goldies home after 66 years” - article

in the Dominion, 9 January 1984 (Note: These “Goldie” sketches are most likely forgeries by Karl Sim).

Section 4. (a) “Chief Back on Marae” article and pho-

tograph of 19 March 1987 (newspaper unknown).

(b) “Goldie fan jailed for hotel attack” - article in N.Z. Herald, 17 April 1996.

Section 5. (a) Copy from photograph of Hori Pokai of

Thames taken by William Hammond (possibly one taken in 1905)

Section 6. (a) “Pokai” - jottings by William Hammond

copied from his papers. (b) “Pokai was Decorated with the Real

Tattoo” - article in N. Z. Herald, 31 March 1962, by Hazel Harris (probably the only obituary for Hori Pokai of Thames).

(c) “Old Maori Chiefs” - article in N. Z. Herald, 1 February 1935 (about the submission of “Sleep ‘tis a Gentle Thing” for hanging in the Royal Acad-emy).

(d) “Totara Pa” by Isdale, Alister Murray, 27 October 1962, (copy of draft held by Auckland City Library).

Section 7. (a) Copy of a portrait of Tuari Netana with

comments on moko and ancestry taken from “Moko Rangatira” by Ko Te Riria and David Simmons, Auckland 1989. Note: The artist is unknown but this portrait is possibly the one dated 1852 held by Auckland City Art Gallery which is suspected of being a fake based on some other image, e.g. ceramic plate.

© Don Hayward—reprinted with kind permission.

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Below information taken from: Good as Goldie. The amazing story of New Zealand’s most famous art forger. Karl F Sim (CF Goldie) and Tim Wilson. Hodder Moa Beckett 2003.

“Karl Fedor Sim was convicted of art forgery 1985. He forged paintings by Fran-ces Hodgkins, Rita Angus, Vincent van Gogh and Degas among many but his most famous forgeries were of Charles Frederick Goldie’s portraits of Maori with moko. After his conviction he changed his name by deed poll to CF Goldie so he could sign his paintings truthfully.”

The real Goldie painted Patara Te Tuhi many times. The false Goldie did this sketch of Patara Te Tuhi. (The real Goldie had painted Patara Te Tuhi in 1901. Sim’s sketch is dated 1993 by which time Patara would have been long dead so it is much more likely to be a copy/forgery than an original drawing from life). Written beside the sketch it says it is for Moana JOYCE, my brother-in-law. I got a photocopy of the sketch from Moana. In the book noted above Sim said he was friends with the artist Oriwa (Oliver) HADDON of Taranaki. My husband, Aporo’s g-g-grandfather’s daughter, Huihanna of Taranaki married Oriwa’s father. This could possibly explain why we have the sketch.

Brenda JOYCE.

THE JOYCE “GOLDIE” The false Goldie sketch of Patara Te Tuhi—from Brenda JOYCE

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

From: Geary mail Sent: Monday, 3 December 2007 3:19 p.m. To: MaoriSIG@genealogy.org.nz Subject: Letter to the Editor

Another very interesting 'Te Reo' for Noema. What a pity we could not take up the challenge of TVNZ and take part in Waka Huia. Unfortunately, a whole generation of people did not get the opportunity to learn their language. The old people I remember were fluent in both English and Maori, but during my generation and that of my chil-dren, it was neglected, though I remember Maori being spoken at school when I first started, and we sang waiata too.

Many years ago, a kaumatua told my eldest son, that he would never know peace until he learned his whakapapa, stood on his turanga- waewae, took part at his marae, and gained the wairua to be true tangata whenua. I had already discovered some of his whakapapa, but he took up the challenge and did all the things the kaumatua advised him to do. He is now at peace within himself, as he knows who he is and where he has come from. Because I am a genealogist, I have helped him in his research, and learned so much more myself. I am just another pakeha married to one of the tangata whenua, but I feel I can now stand beside my children and support them and my grandchildren. It is so important to maintain links with the past and learning Te Reo is one way to achieve it.

On another matter, though I am pakeha by birth, my family has always lived in bi-

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This was taken a year ago in Auckland with Rangitoto in background. L/R Ross Geary (my youngest), Celia Geary (me) and David Geary.

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David William GEARY, b. 19th September 1963 at Feilding, North Island, New Zealand.

Son of James William Geary b. 1930 - d. 2000. Grandson of David Ernest Geary and Robina May Pearce. Both of these ancestors, are descended from William Geary, 3rd son of William Geary (Snr) and Etahi Taputai (Porikapa whanau) Nga Mahanga sub-iwi of Taranaki.

David and his cousin Neil Jury have connected with the Oakura and Puniho Maraes. David was on the Puniho Marae Committee until he went to Can-ada in 2002. Before David went to Canada, David and Neil, great, great grandsons of Etahi Tapu-tai, went South to get the toko toko which Etahi took to Otakou with her when she left Taranaki.

This had the iwi story carved on it from the beginning of time, to the twins at the top of the stick, where the handle is. This shows 'Nga Mahanga', the twins, facing away from each other. The toko toko has special powers and was put into the beds of sick children to help with their healing. It was very carefully guarded on its journey from Otakou on the Otago Peninsula, back to the Marae in Taranaki. The elders of the marae were not able to read all the carvings but most of them were explained. Unfortunately Nga Mahanga a Tairi has lost a lot of the old people from way back when there were plagues which swept through the area wiping out large numbers of the iwi. The marauding parties of the 1820's and 1830's also reduced iwi numbers. After being ceremoniously received in Taranaki, Etahi Taputai's toko toko was returned to Portobello, where it is cared for by family.

Puniho Marae is where David returns whenever he can, even on trips from Can-ada. It is where the sacred stone, 'Rauhoto Tapairu lies today. This stone is said to have been brought by waka with Whatonga when the tangata whenua first ar-rived.

Many years ago David was advised by a kaumatua that he had to find where he came from, so that he could know where he was going. David has tried to do that and now he is returning to New Zealand to take up the position of "Writer in Resi-dence" at Victoria University in Wellington for 2008. With him is his wife Deborah and their Canadian born son, Manutahi McKee Wilton Geary.

Celia GEARY.

cultural areas. I clearly remember catching freshwater koura, and taking them home to boil up, along with puha or raraki, and rawena bread. Those meals always tasted so good. After I got married, mutton bird and plenty of kaimoana was on our family menu. I have a whole book of recipes for traditional foods, which my son got when he was at secondary school. There are very detailed explanations of how to put down a good hangi.

Kia ora me ka kite ano. Celia GEARY.

Editors Note: I appreciate your kind comments Celia and I am particularly pleased to know that you found the Noema issue interesting—many thanks for your continuing support and generous contributions this issue. BM

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MAGNETIC CARDS—MIG BOOKMARKS

These colour printed cards measure approx 4.5 x 5cm. They make ideal bookmarks as they cannot fall out of your book yet do not damage it. Use them also for holding papers together. When opened out flat they make good desk magnets.

These cards will be on sale at Branch Open Days and at Conference. 50¢ents each.

If you want yours now send the money and a SSAE to Brenda JOYCE, Secretary.

MĀORI KAI

From: Geary mail Sent: Saturday, 12 January 2008 9:08 a.m. To: MaoriSIG@genealogy.org.nz Subject: MIG - Recipes for Brenda Hi Brenda, Here are a few of my family's recipes from the days gone by, probably any-thing from 30 to 60 years ago.

Trout caught fresh in the morning, gutted, spread out with common salt sprinkled over in a pan. The next day spread with a wire and hung on a hook to dry. Either that day or the next they are ready to deal with.

To smoke, hang in smoke house with others and build a fire of green manuka at the end of a long tunnel. This has to be done in the evening and the fire has to be watched and stoked with more green manuka most of the night. It must not get too hot or it will cook the trout, and yet it must be hot enough to seal the flesh, about 4 am the fire can be allowed to die down and trout smoked this way will keep well in a safe. No

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In the Noema 2007 newsletter we started a series of articles on Māori Kai. We hope to include articles on both traditional and contemporary meals and I welcome any sugges-tions and contributions from our members – if you have a family recipe or any cooking ideas or know of a traditional food which sustained our ancestors, please send them in. What has this to do with Whakapapa? You may well ask. When studying family history the more you know of the life styles of the people – how they lived and why – the richer will be your understanding of your families.

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STOP PRESS! Due to a recent computer crash I have lost some of my emails since the 24th December 2007.

Could the two members who emailed us earlier this month please resend their details; the first request was to update the email address for their online research and the second request was a new member’s/Whakapapa research

listing on our site – these are the two that I can remember, if anyone else is also waiting to hear back from us, can they please also contact the group again. My apolo-gies for the obvious inconvenience caused. Please also accept my apologies for the tardiness of this issue, again the computer crash was one of the main reasons. BM

fridges in those days.

Soused trout:- Cut trout either fresh or salted(if salted wash well and no extra salt will be needed) into steak pieces and put into a casserole dish with herbs of your choice, salt and pepper to taste, some sugar, vinegar, a knob of butter and water just half way up trout. You can add wine to the mix if liked. The quantities depend on how big your casserole is. Serve hot or cold with salad and new potatoes. Delicious!

Preserved trout:- Gut, wash and cut into steak pieces, pack into preserving jars, no water needed. Into each jar put - 1 tablespoon common salt, 2 tablespoons of vinegar, large knob of butter. Put tops on jars and stand in large saucepan or preserving pan filled with water, and boil slowly for 4 hours. When cool, screw tops down firmly. The bones will disintegrate over time. Eat with salad , bread and butter or new potatoes.

Mutton Bird / Titi: Salted mutton birds need to be boiled and the water drained off 3 or 4 times until they are tender, probably about 2 hours boil-ing altogether. They are really nice hot, with mashed potatoes, mashed swede and homemade plum sauce. They can be eaten cold with bread and butter, but don't forget the plum sauce.

Paua fritters:- first gather your paua. Remove paua from shell (4-8 paua) pound paua, cut into pieces and put through mincer(the old turn the handle kind is best), mince or cut very finely, one or two onions, and put in a bowl with an egg, salt and pepper, a small spoon of BP, flour to mix. Put tablespoon lots of batter into a hot pan, but turn down the heat to cook more slowly and brown both sides. Drain and serve with chips or bread and butter.

I have other recipes but these are our family favourites. Ka pai te kai! Celia GEARY

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