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Kara, Timi

1. (loan) (personal name) Sir James Carroll (1857-1926) Ngāti Kahungunu; interpreter, MP (1887-1919), served in cabinet posts, established land incorporations for Māori and was knighted in 1911.

I muri i tēnei ka haere mai ki te tāone, ki Hanatere, a Māhuta, a Tainga-kawa me ngā rangatira e 20, me te Hōnore Timi Kara kia kōrero whakariterite i ngā take kōrero anō mō taua pire... (TJ 12/4/1898:8). / After this, Mahuta, Tainga-kawa and 20 chiefs with the Honorable James Carroll went to the town of Huntly to closely discuss the implications of that bill...

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