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James Clendon (Himi Te Nana) Tau Hēnare was born at Mōtatau in the Bay of Islands on 18 November 1911, the youngest of six sons and one of eight children of Hera Paerata and her husband, Taurekareka (Tau) Hēnare, then…

Part of: Hēnare, James Clendon Tauauthored byPuna McConnell, Robin C. McConnell, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Robert Agrippa Moengaroa Waitiri (later Whaitiri), commonly known as Bob, was born in Bluff, Southland, on 9 May 1916. Through his parents, Robert Agrippa Waitiri, an oysterman, and his wife, Mariam (Miriam) Effie Te…

Part of: Whaitiri, Robert Agrippa Moengaroaauthored byReina Ann Whaitiri, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Mōnita (Mō) Eru Delamere was born on 17 June 1921 at Ōmāio, Bay of Plenty, the fifth of at least eight children. His parents were Hannah Te Au and her husband, Pāora (Paul) Kīngi Delamere, a farmer and leader of the…

Part of: Delamere, Mōnita Eruauthored byPaul Delamere, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team
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The Māori (Pioneer) Battalion performs a haka, France, 1918
The Pioneer (Māori) Battalion performs a haka, France, 1918

Howard Karl Kippenberger was born at Ladbrooks, south of Christchurch, on 28 January 1897. He was the eldest child of Karl Kippenberger, a head teacher and Methodist local preacher, and his wife, Annie Elizabeth Howard…

Part of: Kippenberger, Howard Karlauthored byGlyn Harper

Keith Elliott was born (auspiciously) on 25 April 1916 in the backblocks settlement of Āpiti, north-east of Feilding, the eighth of nine children of Thomas Frank Capper Elliott, a farmer, and his wife, Ethel Marie…

Part of: Elliott, Keithauthored byPeter J. Lineham

Hēnare Mōkena Kōhere was born on 10 March 1880 at Te Araroa, East Cape. He was the fourth child of Hōne Hiki Kōhere and his wife Henarata Peretō (Bristow) of Ngāti Porou. Hēnare, a grandson of the Ngāti Porou chief…

Part of: Kōhere, Hēnare Mōkenaauthored byHenare Kohere Swann, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Brian Matauru Poananga was born in Palmerston North on 2 December 1924. His father, Henare Matauru Poananga, was the great-grandson of Wikiriwhi Matauru, a noted warrior of Ngati Porou, who had fought for the Crown…

Part of: Poananga, Brian Matauruauthored byHenare Matauru (Pon) Poananga, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

John (Hoani) Te Rangiāniwaniwa Rangihau, known to his hapū and iwi as Te Nika and in the wider Māori world as Te Rangihau, was born at Kūhā, south of Waikaremoana, on 5 September 1919, to Karu Rangihau, a labourer, and…

Part of: Rangihau, John Te Rangiāniwaniwaauthored byRoka Rangihau, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

After the Second World War Ruru Karaitiana’s song ‘Blue smoke’ provided a welcome-home theme for the returning troops, and later became the first all-New Zealand hit record. ‘These things are simply a matter of luck’,…

Part of: Karaitiana, Rangi Ruru Wānangaauthored byGordon Spittle, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

John George Laughton was born in Holm parish, Orkney, Scotland, on 2 December 1891, the son of John Laughton, a farmer, and his wife, Mary Ann Balfour Moody Shearer. He emigrated to New Zealand with his parents in 1903…

Part of: Laughton, John Georgeauthored byJim Irwin

Andrew Anderson, universally known as Andy, was born on 17 October 1895 at Pipiriki on the Whanganui River. He was the son of Andrew Joseph Thomas Anderson and his wife, Te Rākura (Te Rākura) Niu, of the local Ngāti…

Part of: Anderson, Andrewauthored byMorvin T. Simon, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Harry Delamere Barter Dansey was born in Greenlane, Auckland, on 1 November 1920, the eldest of four children of Harry Delamere Dansey and his wife, Winifred Patience Barter. His father was a civil engineer, and is…

Part of: Dansey, Harry Delamere Barterauthored byH. R. Dansey, Te Rina Dawn Dansey, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Kepa Hāmuera Ānaha Ehau was born on 5 November 1885 at Ōtewā, a small community south-east of Ōtorohanga in the King Country. At the time of Kepa’s birth Te Kooti and his Ringatū followers were living at Ōtewā. They…

Part of: Ehau, Kepa Hāmuera Ānahaauthored byManu H. Pene, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Kīngi Te Ahoaho Tāhiwi was born on 1 December 1883 and baptised Te Kīngi on 30 December at Rangiātea church, Ōtaki. His father, Rāwiri Rota Tāhiwi, a Native Land Court assessor, was of Ngāti Raukawa, and of the hapū…

Part of: Tāhiwi, Kīngi Te Ahoahoauthored byRupene M. T. Waaka, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Rangi Hauiti Pōkiha was born at Koriniti on the Whanganui River on 4 August 1895, the first child of Pōkiha Peni of Ngāti Pāmoana and his second wife, Ngārongo Rangitahua of Ngā Rauru. Rangi Pōkiha was a direct…

Part of: Pōkiha, Rangi Hauitiauthored byPenny Robinson, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

James (Jimmy, or Hēmi) Waitaringa Mapu was born at Mōteo, Hawke's Bay, on 4 March 1894. His father was Porokoru Mapu, a younger brother of Pāora Kurupō, principal chief of Ngāti Hinepare of Ngāti Kahungunu. Porokoru was…

Part of: Mapu, James Waitaringaauthored byPatrick Parsons, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Hōri Mahue Ngata was born on 8 August 1919 at The Bungalow, Waiomatatini, the home of his grandfather, Apirana Ngata. His father, Mākarini Tānara Ngata, a farmer, was Apirana’s eldest son; his mother was Maraea Mereana…

Part of: Ngata, Hōri Mahueauthored byWhai Ngata, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Hēmi Pōtatau was born on 20 May 1904 at Te Mimi o Te Hiki, Nūhaka, the ninth of 12 children of Hata Pōtatau, also known as Tīpene, and his wife, Te Raita (Taraita) Rore, also known as Te Waimātao. His father had links…

Part of: Pōtatau, Hēmiauthored byAngela Ballara, Tame H. Takao, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Charles Hazlitt Upham was born in Christchurch on 21 September 1908, the son of John Hazlitt Upham, a lawyer, and his wife, Agatha Mary Coates. He boarded at Waihi School, Winchester, South Canterbury, between 1917 and…

Part of: Upham, Charles Hazlittauthored byJ. A. B. Crawford

Paraire Karaka Paikea was the great-grandson of Paikea Te Hekeua, a prominent chief of Te Uri-o-Hau and Ngāti Whatua. His father was Karaka Eramiha Paikea, and his mother was Tuhi Harirū Maihi, daughter of Wereti and…

Part of: Paikea, Paraire Karakaauthored byAngela Ballara, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team