Rededication of Hotunui at Auckland Museum, 1929
New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20426, 30 November 1929, Page 10
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'Tomo' - Rededication of Hotunui meeting house, Auckland Museum, 1929
Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 281, 27 November 1929, Page 13
Recollections of Mereana Mokomoko of Ngāti Awa concerning the building of 'Hotunui', published 1925
Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 16439, 12 March 1925, Page 5
Images of Nikorima Poutōtara and Catherine Harriet Poutōtara of Ngāti Maru
Taken from The Thames Journals of Vicesimus Lush , pp. 96, 97 ‘When Sir William Martin was Chief Justice of New Zealand and living with his wife in Auckland, his wife brought up a Maori girl whom they had adopted, and that child was taken to England. This girl was sent to the best large schools. When she returned to New Zealand this Maori girl knew three languages and her appearance and all her ways were those of a true Pakeha woman. She married a leading Hauraki chief, Nikorima Poutotara, and because her husband was a great man and because she too was a gracious person this woman was made much of by the Pakeha people of Hauraki and Auckland. She had a lovely singing voice and consequently Nikorima’s wife was in demand to sing at soirees. Eventually this woman decided to return to the free-and-easy ways of her people. Her learning of Pakeha ways proved to be only skin deep. She gave up her desire to do things in the Pakeha way. Soon she had given up having anything ...
'Death of the Chief Riwai', (Riwai Te Kiore of Ngāti Maru), 1879
Thames Advertiser, Volume XII, Issue 3352, 27 June 1879