Bidois, Louis Hekenui, 1899-1955 (Person)

SummaryAlso known as Heke.

Born at Te Puna on 28 March 1899, son of dairy farmer Charles (Haare) Bidois and Pauline (Pōrina) Faulkner. Of Ngāti Ranginui and Ngāi Te Rangi descent. A taxi driver when he married Mary (Mere) Wynyard Garlick at Tauranga on 7 November 1927. Appointed district constable at Te Whaiti in 1936. Sustained a head injury while arresting two men in 1949 and retired through ill health in 1953. Died from pneumonia, and the effects of the injury at Rotorua Public Hospital on 24 May 1955; buried at Rotorua. Added to the New Zealand Police Memorial Wall in 2016SourcesDictionary of New Zealand Biography: Bidois, Louis HekenuiNew Zealand Police "Constable Louis Hekenui (Heke) Bidois"Bidois, Christiane J, fl 2003 :Photograph of Louis Hekenui Bidois, 1899-1955BRUTAL ASSAULT CONSTABLE Rotorua Morning Post, 9 May 1949, Page 4DESTRUCTIVE FIRE ON STRAND Bay of Plenty Times, 17 February 1936, Page 3Dictionary of New Zealand Biography: Haurongo: Bidois, Louis HekenuiBidois Family notes from the former New Zealand Room's Vertical FilesPolicing two peoples : a history of police in the Bay of Plenty, 1867-1992

Photograph of Louis Hekenui Bidois (1899-1955), policeman, possibly in front of Te Whaiti Police Station, taken ca late 1930s by an unknown photographer" Alexander Turnbull Library reference 1/2-201351-F

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IwiNgāi Te RangiNgāti RanginuiHapūNgāi TūkairangiPirirākau

Personal Information

First Name(s)Louis HekenuiSurnameBidoisAlso Known asHekeDate of Birth1899Place of BirthTe Puna, TaurangaDate of Death1955

Whānau

MotherBidois, Pauline (Porina) née FaulknerFatherBidois, Charles (Haare)

Tūpuna

KuiaKaumoana, Irihapeti (Elizabeth), c.1821–1887 (Person)KorouaBidois, Louis Antoine, 1820–1909 (Person)

Partner

PartnerBidois, Mary (Mere) Wynyard née GarlickDate Married7 November 1927

Relates To

PeopleSkinner, Arthur, 1874-1940 (Person)

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Bidois, Louis Hekenui, 1899-1955 (Person)