Grandson of Ngatoroirangi I (the priest of the Arawa canoe), Paoa captained the Horouta canoe, arriving at Ohiwa in the Bay of Plenty in 1325AD. It is with his arrival that our traditional history begins. In an attempt to cross a sandbar named Tukerae o …

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My grandfather, Hemi Kauta Wharekino was a Mangatu Committee Member 1954-1960 and my great great grandfather was Hori Puru, an Original Trustee 1881-93 and Member of the first Mangatu Committee from 1893-1901.

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There is a famous waiata of Te Kooti, 'Pinepine Te Kura' ('Tiny Pre cious Child'), which is an adaptation of an old oriori, a lullaby sung to a child, sometimes an unborn child, to teach it its history.

Mar 25, 2016 · For more than four decades descendants have performed the tribe's renowned haka Te Puru. Te Puru was a metaphor used to describe the arrogance of colonial forces.

Irwin (Mangatu Carpentary Super- visor) with the aid of others shifted ‘Ngawari’ the Tipuna Whare from its original site to its present one. They set to and restored the many valuable ancestors’ photographs (all of which went under the floods on numerous occasions). A valuable and irreplaceable photo of Hori Puru, tohunga of Mangatu was ...

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The pepeha I presented before the whakapapa is a metaphoric adaptation of a statement made by my great, great paternal grandmother Rawinia Ahuroa and given before Judge Rawson in evidence for Mangatū No. 1. this whakapapa starts in English and switches to Māori and I have left it as I have often heard it that way.

Hori Puru, alias Mae Hutuna, alias H. P. Teohia. P.G. 20/356. F.P. Class 32/32 IO/II New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XLVI, Issue 39, 5 October 1921, Page 91 (Supplement) NOTE this publication contains descriptions of crimes and photographs of deceased people. The New Zealand Police Gazette from 1877-1944 is out of copyright.