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Haurongo: Hērangi, Te Kirihaehae Te Puea

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Peter Henry Buck

Buck, Peter Henry

1877 (year uncertain)–1951

Ngāti Mutunga; doctor, military leader, health administrator, politician, anthropologist, museum director

Coates, Joseph Gordon

1878–1943

Farmer, politician, soldier, prime minister

Fraser, Peter

1884–1950

Labourer, trade unionist, journalist, politician, prime minister

Taurekareka Hēnare, 1929

Hēnare, Taurekareka

1877 to 1878 (year uncertain)–1940

Ngāpuhi leader, politician

Hēnare Kaihau

Kaihau, Hēnare

1854 to 1860 (year uncertain)–1920

Ngāti Te Ata leader, politician, adviser to the Māori King

Korokī Te Rata Mahuta Pōtatau Te Wherowhero

1908 to 1909 (year uncertain)–1966

Ngāti Mahuta; Māori King

Apirana Turupa Ngata, about 1905

Ngata, Apirana Turupa

1874–1950

Ngāti Porou leader, land reformer, politician, scholar

Māui Pōmare alongside a raupō whare at the Christchurch exhibition in 1906 or 1907

Pōmare, Māui Wiremu Piti Naera

1875 to 1876 (year uncertain)–1930

Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Toa; medical officer, Māori health reformer, politician

Ramsden, George Eric Oakes

1898–1962

Journalist, writer, art critic

Searancke, William Nicholas

1817 (year uncertain)–1904

Surveyor, land purchase commissioner, resident magistrate, land agent

Sim, William Alexander

1858–1928

Lawyer, judge

Tawhiao, the second Maori King

Tāwhiao, Tūkāroto Matutaera Pōtatau Te Wherowhero

?–1894

Māori King, Waikato leader, prophet

Pōtatau Te Wherowhero (left), Te Waru (centre) and Te Pakaru (right), painted by George French Angas

Te Wherowhero, Pōtatau

?–1860

Waikato leader, warrior, Māori King

Turbott, Harold Bertram

1899–1988

Doctor, public health administrator, broadcaster, writer

Biographies that mention Hērangi, Te Kirihaehae Te Puea

John Atirau Asher, about 1962

Asher, John Atirau

1892–1966

Ngāti Pūkenga and Ngāti Pikiao leader, hotelier, interpreter, racehorse owner

Bledisloe, Charles Bathurst

1867–1958

Lawyer, politician, agriculturalist, governor general

Cooper, Whina

1895–1994

Te Rarawa woman of mana, teacher, storekeeper, community leader

Cowan, James

1870–1943

Journalist, historian

Davis, Charles Richard

1895–1964

Ngāti Maniapoto leader, farmer, blacksmith, builder, genealogist

Davis, Charles Richard

1887–1958

Ngati Maniapoto leader, farmer, historian, genealogist, Ratana minister

Dennis, Jonathan Spencer

1953–2002

Film archivist, broadcaster, critic, writer

John Mason Durie, 1916

Durie, John Mason

1889–1971

Ngāti Kauwhata and Rangitāne leader, interpreter, public servant, farmer, community leader

James Hēnare, about 1945

Hēnare, James Clendon Tau

1911–1989

Ngāpuhi leader, military leader, farmer, community leader

Kīngi Matutaera Īhaka

Īhaka, Kīngi Matutaera

1921–1993

Te Aupōuri; clerk, interpreter, Anglican priest, broadcaster, Maori language commissioner

Michael Rotohiko Jones ringing the bell at Ōngarue primary school in 1977

Jones, Michael Rotohiko

1895–1978

Ngāti Maniapoto; interpreter, land agent, sportsman, private secretary, public administrator, broadcaster

Pei Te Hurinui Jones (left), Korokī (centre), and Te Kiri Katipa

Jones, Pei Te Hurinui

1898–1976

Ngāti Maniapoto leader, interpreter, land officer, writer, translator, genealogist

Mutu Paratene Kapa, August 1955

Kapa, Mutu Paratene

1870–1968

Te Aupouri and Waikato leader, sportsman, Anglican priest

Leslie Kelly, about 1925

Kelly, Leslie George

1906–1959

Ngāti Mahuta; journalist, engine-driver, historian

King, Michael

1945–2004

Historian, biographer, journalist, writer

Macpherson, Margaret Louisa

1895–1974

Journalist, writer

Mahuta, Tonga

1892 to 1893 (year uncertain)–1947

Ngāti Mahuta leader

A political meeting at Huntly, 1898

Mahuta Tāwhiao Pōtatau Te Wherowhero

1854 to 1855 (year uncertain)–1912

Ngāti Mahuta; Māori King, politician

Rangiputangatahi Māwhete

Māwhete, Rangiputangatahi

1880–1961

Rangitāne; land agent, interpreter, politician

Arihia Kane Ngata

Ngata, Arihia Kane

1879–1929

Ngāti Porou woman of mana

Ānaru Iehu Ngāwaka

Ngāwaka, Ānaru Iehu

1872–1964

Te Rarawa leader, Anglican clergyman

Group shot of the Ōtorohanga Town Board.

Ormsby, John

1854–1927

Ngāti Maniapoto negotiator, local politician, farmer, businessman

Wiremu Nētana Pānapa

Pānapa, Wiremu Nētana

1898–1970

Ngāti Ruanui and Te Rarawa; Anglican bishop

Louis Wellington Parore

Parore, Louis Wellington

1888–1953

Ngāpuhi and Te Roroa leader, interpreter, land court agent

Poutapu, Wiremu Te Ranga

1905–1975

Ngāti Korokī; carpenter, carver

Iriaka Matiu Rātana

Rātana, Iriaka Matiu

1905–1981

Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi; entertainer, farmer, Rātana leader, politician

Reweti, Ngāpipi

1883 to 1884 (year uncertain)–1957

Ngāti Whātua land negotiator

Īhakara Te Tuku Robin

Robin, Īhakara Te Tuku

1886–1968

Ngāti Kahungunu and Ngāti Raukawa; shearer, lay reader, wrestler

Rongonui, Kahupāke

1868 to 1869 (year uncertain)–1947

Te Wai-o-Hua leader

Seamer, Arthur John

1878–1963

Salvation Army missionary, Methodist minister

Szászy, Miraka

1921–2001

Ngāti Kurī, Te Aupōuri, Te Rarawa woman of mana, educator, leader

Te Atairangikaahu Korokī Te Rata Mahuta Tāwhiao Pōtatau Te Wherowhero

1931–2006

Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Apakura, Ngāti Maniapoto; Māori queen

Te Pairi Tūterangi about 1930

Te Pairi Tūterangi

?–1954

Tūhoe leader, tohunga, orator, carver, weaver

Te Rata Mahuta Pōtatau Te Wherowhero (seated, right) and others

Te Rata Mahuta Pōtatau Te Wherowhero

1877 to 1880 (year uncertain)–1933

Ngāti Mahuta; Māori King

Te Tāite Te Tomo, photographed in the early 1930s

Te Tomo, Te Tāite

1871 to 1872 (year uncertain)–1939

Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Ngāti Raukawa historian, politician

Te Waharoa, Tupu Atanatiu Taingākawa

1844 to 1845 (year uncertain)–1929

Ngāti Hauā leader, kingmaker, King movement leader

Te Wherowhero, Piupiu

1886 to 1887 (year uncertain)–1937

Ngāti Mahuta woman of mana

Īnia Te Wīata (left) with another member of the Methodist Māori Mission choir, 1932

Te Wīata, Īnia Mōrehu Tauhia Wātene Iarahi Waihurihia

1915–1971

Ngāti Raukawa; singer, carver, artist

Pāora Temuera photographed in the doorway of Rangiātea Church, Ōtaki, in 1950

Temuera, Pāora

1886 to 1887 (year uncertain)–1957

Ngāti Whakaue; Anglican priest

Maharaia Winiata addresses an audience

Winiata, Maharaia

1912–1960

Ngāti Ranginui leader, Methodist minister, teacher, anthropologist, broadcaster, community leader

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Ann Parsonson. 'Hērangi, Te Kirihaehae Te Puea', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 1996. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/biographies/127052/related-biographies (accessed 4 June 2026).