Of Ngai Tahu and Kati Mamoe descent. With Department of Maori Affairs (Maori housing) for many years. Secretary of Ngati Poneke until he went to war in 1942 in the 22 Battalion. Senior rugby player, President of the Race Relations Council, involved in industrial relations.
Potiki, Paul Fontanne Kingi, 1918-1996
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Audio
Interview with Paul Potiki
Date: 20 Mar 1992 and 01 March 1994 - 01 Mar 1994 - 20 Mar 1992
From: Sound recordings about Ngati Poneke
By: Grace, Patricia Frances, 1937-; Potiki, Paul Fontanne Kingi, 1918-1996; Dennis, Jonathan Spencer, 1953-2002
Reference: OHInt-0600-06
Description: Paul Potiki was born in Seatoun, Wellington in 1918. Talks about how Kingi Tahiwi, Ngati Poneke's choir conductor, held the club together. Recalls Tahiwi was born in 1883 in Otaki, worked at Maori Affairs Department as translator, and mentions his involvement in rugby, Maori Advisory Board, Masonic Lodge and St Paul's Cathedral. Mentions Tahiwi's strict dress code for club members. Recalls his own work for the Department of Maori Affairs, his career and his attitude to being Maori. Talks about Ngati Poneke Club nights, the club's structure, origins and social values. Talks about why some Maori wouldn't attend. Mentions his mother was soloist at concerts. Describes the club's regular performances during World War II for American and New Zealand servicemen, the American hospital at Silverstream, Trentham Camp, Fort Dorset, and for hospital ships returning from war. Mentions the club's table tennis and hockey club. Mentions other contemporary Maori groups, including the Welfare Club that visited Tuberculosis (TB) sufferers at Wellington Hospital. Talks about Maori urban migration to Wellington, and work during the war in government departments, canning factories, woollen mills, hosieries, car factories. Recalls reputation of Maori as good workers. Describes running opera tours in Rome after the war. Mentions the 1940 Centennial celebrations, and the fate of the meeting house constructed for the centenary. Recalls Ngati Poneke's use of the American Army recreational facility after the war, and taken from Maori for Public Works received no compensation. Also recalls arranging rental houses for Maori after the war. Interviewer(s) - Patricia Grace and Jonathan Dennis Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-10537 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-3655, MSDL-0153 (files Potiki.doc, Potiki2.doc).
Manuscript
Interviews with Witarina Harris and Paul Potiki
Date: [1994]
From: Ngati Poneke Club : Records
Reference: MS-Papers-7278-13
Description: Interviews with Witarina Harris and Paul Potiki as part of the Ngati Poneke project Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Notes - Payne-Potroz
From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera
Reference: MS-Papers-6164-077
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Research file (b)
Date: [1930-2000]
From: Ngati Poneke Club : Records
Reference: MS-Papers-7278-04
Description: Correspondence, clippings, reminiscences, notes, copies of extracts from books and newspaper articles relating to the history of Ngati Poneke Club; includes item from Nash papers, letter from F B Katene to P K Paikea regarding problems Maori were experiencing in Wellington as a result of war conditions Language - One karanga in Maori Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Printout of interviews
Date: [1994]-1997
From: Ngati Poneke Club : Records
Reference: MS-Papers-7278-16
Description: Interviews listed under Name Quantity: 1 folder(s).