Mere Haana Hall

Mere Haana Hall MBE (c.1881 – 23 August 1966) was a New Zealand teacher and principal. Of Māori descent, she identified with the Ngāti Rangiwewehi iwi, part of the Te Arawa confederation. She was born in Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand in about 1881.[1] She attended Hukarere Native School for Girls and from 1927 to 1944 she was the principal of Hukarere.[2]

In the 1952 New Year Honours Hall was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to the Māori people.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Leibowitz, Donna M. T. T. Hall and Sheena. "Mere Haana Hall". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved December 2011. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  2. ↑ Hall, Donna M. T. T. (30 October 2012). "'Hall, Mere Haana". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 17 March 2012.
  3. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 39423. pp. 41–43. 28 December 1951. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
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