Skip to main content
Dictionary of New Zealand Biography logo

Haurongo: Te Kani, Hirini

Haurongo tūhonohono

Grey, George

1812–1898

Soldier, explorer, colonial governor, premier, scholar

Hinematioro

?–1823

Ngāti Porou leader

Mōkena Kōhere

Kōhere, Mōkena

?–1894

Ngāti Porou leader, assessor, politician

Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant

1820–1895

Public servant, politician, naturalist

Matete, Anaru

?–1890

Rongowhakaata leader, farmer

McLean, Donald

1820–1877

Administrator, runholder, politician, provincial superintendent

Wiremu Pere, photographed between 1884 and 1887

Pere, Wiremu

1837–1915

Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki and Rongowhakaata; politician, runholder

Rukupō, Raharuhi

?–1873

Rongowhakaata leader, carver

Te Kani-a-Takirau

?–1856

Ngāti Porou leader, Te Aitanga a Hauiti leader

Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Tūruki

Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Tūruki

?–1893

Rongowhakaata leader, military leader, prophet, religious founder

Te Ua Haumēne, early 1860s

Te Ua Haumēne

?–1866

Taranaki leader, prophet, religious founder

Williams, William

1800–1878

Missionary, linguist

Biographies that mention Te Kani, Hirini

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

Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki leader Riperata Kahutia, who fought to protect and consolidate the lands of her people

Kahutia, Riperata

1838 to 1839 (year uncertain)–1887

Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki woman of mana

Hēnare Pōtae, about 1870

Pōtae, Hēnare

?–1895

Ngāti Porou leader

Read, George Edward

1814 to 1815 (year uncertain)–1878

Mariner, trader, land purchaser

Tāngia te kōrero katoa

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Steven Oliver. 'Te Kani, Hirini', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 1990. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/biographies/128790/related-biographies (accessed 4 June 2026).