More than seven decades after her three brothers were murdered, Mihi Kui Edwards was to be reunited with her siblings.
She died, aged 89, in March 2021 and was to be buried with her slain siblings at Putiki Urupā.
Instead Mrs Edwards was buried in another plot - and her children are desperate for answers, and desperate for their mother to lie where she wished.
Our reporter Jimmy Ellingham filed this report alongside producer Anastasia Hedge and cameraman Angus Dreaver.
Whanganui District Council and Land Settlement Trust negotiate agreement
1 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM
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Whanganui Land Settlement Negotiation Trust chairman Ken Mair spoke at the trust s first mandate hui in January 2017. Photo / Bevan Conley
Whanganui Land Settlement Negotiation Trust chairman Ken Mair spoke at the trust s first mandate hui in January 2017. Photo / Bevan Conley
Laurel Stowell is a reporter for the Whanganui Chroniclelaurel.stowell@whanganuichronicle.co.nzWhangaChron
Whanganui District Council and the Whanganui Land Settlement Negotiation Trust are drafting a relationship agreement between them - but it is confidential.
Whanganui mayor Hamish McDouall and Whanganui Land Settlement Negotiation Trust (WLSNT) chairman Ken Mair both say the draft is at an early stage.
Riverside seat honours drowned duo
24 Feb, 2021 09:33 PM
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Michelle Harron (Gt Grand-daughter of Takiau Kiriona Williams) and Tirimoana Tuarea-Fletcher (Gt Grand-daughter of Kaporangi Raupa Wharemate), unveiling the Memorial Seat. Photo / Supplied
Paul Brooks is editor of Whanganui Midweek, in your letterbox every Wednesdaypaul.brooks@nzme.co.nz
There s a bench along the river bank, recently installed, to remember two men who drowned in the Whanganui River 85 years ago.
The seat was unveiled on Saturday, February 6, with all due ceremony.
Takiau Kiriona Williams and Kaporangi Raupa Wharemate were cousins and close companions. On February 18, 1936, the men left Putiki Marae to go fishing, but their boat was unseaworthy and both drowned. Kaporangi was found a few days later on Castlecliff Beach, but Takiau was lost forever. It was Takiau s 42nd birthday.