Speech to the Federation of Māori Authorities National Conference
10 Dec 2014 | NewsMy grandmother Pirihira was bought up in Waikawa, part of the extended Watson or Tahuaroa whānau. After WW1 she married Darcy Reeves, a returned soldier from a local Pākehā family, and they moved to Wellington, settling in Newtown where my father Paul was born and grew up.