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Haurongo: Tūrei, Mohi

Haurongo tūhonohono

Best, Elsdon

1856–1931

Farm worker, soldier, sawmiller, health inspector, ethnographer, writer

Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant

1820–1895

Public servant, politician, naturalist

McLean, Donald

1820–1877

Administrator, runholder, politician, provincial superintendent

Apirana Turupa Ngata, about 1905

Ngata, Apirana Turupa

1874–1950

Ngāti Porou leader, land reformer, politician, scholar

Paratene Ngata (right), Elsdon Best (centre) and John Nukunuku (left)

Ngata, Paratene

1849 (year uncertain)–1924

Ngāti Porou leader, storekeeper, soldier, farmer, assessor

Taumata-ā-Kura, Piripi

Ngāti Porou evangelist

Völkner, Carl Sylvius

1819–1865

Missionary

Rāpata Wahawaha

Wahawaha, Rāpata

?–1897

Ngāti Porou leader, soldier, farmer, politician, assessor

Rota Waitoa, the first Māori to be ordained in the Anglican church

Waitoa, Rota

?–1866

Ngāti Raukawa; Anglican clergyman

Williams, Henry

1792–1867

Missionary

Williams, Samuel

1822–1907

Missionary, farmer, educationalist, pastoralist

Williams, William

1800–1878

Missionary, linguist

Williams, William Leonard

1829–1916

Missionary, linguist

Biographies that mention Tūrei, Mohi

Edward Francis Harris, whose lifelong search for identity finally secured him a place in both Māori and Pākehā society

Harris, Edward Francis

1834–1898

Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti and Rongowhakaata; public servant, interpreter, landowner, genealogist

Kōhere, Hēnare Mōkena

1880–1916

Ngāti Porou; farmer, soldier

Mōkena Kōhere

Kōhere, Mōkena

?–1894

Ngāti Porou leader, assessor, politician

Rēweti Tūhorouta Kōhere

Kōhere, Rēweti Tūhorouta

1871–1954

Ngāti Porou; Anglican clergyman, newspaper journalist and editor, farmer, writer, historian

Nihoniho, Matutaera

1850–1914

Ngāti Porou leader, soldier, storekeeper, assessor

Rukupō, Raharuhi

?–1873

Rongowhakaata leader, carver

Te Rangi-i-pāia II

Ngāti Porou woman of mana

Tāngia te kōrero katoa

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

J. T. Tamahori. 'Tūrei, Mohi', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 1990. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/biographies/129064/related-biographies (accessed 4 June 2026).