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The good life

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Kuratau faces south on a hillside with Mangaheia Station to the west, inland from Tolaga Bay. The first Te Rāwheoro Marae stood here, and it’s where Boydie Pomare Kutia, or Papa Boydie as he is known, was born almost 90 years ago. With his daughter Suesanne Landa, he talked to Loren Sirl.

Boydie Pomare Kutia was born on a dirt floor at home in 1934 to Rawiri Te Kume (Sonny) Kutia and Te Mamae...


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