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Haurongo: Rua Kēnana Hepetipa

Haurongo tūhonohono

Hercus, Charles Ernest

1888–1971

Doctor, professor of public health

Herries, William Herbert

1859–1923

Farmer, horse breeder, politician

Arthur Skinner dressed to compete in the Caledonian games

Skinner, Arthur

1874–1940

Policeman, athlete

Skinner, Arthur

1882–1970

Policeman

Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Tūruki

Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Tūruki

?–1893

Rongowhakaata leader, military leader, prophet, religious founder

Ward, Joseph George

1856–1930

Merchant, politician, prime minister

Biographies that mention Rua Kēnana Hepetipa

James Carroll

Carroll, James

1857–1926

Ngāti Kahungunu; farm worker, interpreter, politician

Chapman, Frederick Revans

1849–1936

Lawyer, judge, ethnologist

Cullen, John

1850 (year uncertain)–1939

Police officer and commissioner

Cummings, Denis Joseph

1878–1956

Policeman, police commissioner

Cummings, Denis Joseph

1885–1976

Policeman, police commissioner

Gage, George

1895 to 1896 (year uncertain)–1961

Ngāti Maniapoto, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui and Te Whakatōhea; healer, tohunga, Ringatu minister

Henry, Annie

1879–1971

Presbyterian missionary

Herdman, Alexander Lawrence

1869–1953

Lawyer, politician, judge

Hikapuhi

1860 to 1871 (year uncertain)–1934

Ngāti Pikiao tohunga

Laughton, John George

1891–1965

Presbyterian missionary

Musgrave, John Oliver

1895–1974

Motor transport operator

Wiremu Pere, photographed between 1884 and 1887

Pere, Wiremu

1837–1915

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

Pinepine Te Rika and child, 1916

Pinepine Te Rika

1857 to 1858 (year uncertain)–1954

Tūhoe woman of mana

Group portrait at the 60th birthday celebrations for Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana

Rātana, Tahupōtiki Wiremu

1873–1939

Ngāti Apa and Ngā Rauru; faith healer, religious founder, political leader

Ēria Tūtara-Kauika Raukura photographed by James Ingram McDonald

Raukura, Ēria Tūtara-Kauika

1834 to 1835 (year uncertain)–1938

Ngāi Tahupō, Tūhoe and Ngāti Kahungunu; Ringatū tohunga

Albert Oliphant Stewart

Stewart, Albert Oliphant

1884–1958

Ngāti Awa and Te Whānau-ā-Apanui leader, law clerk, interpreter, local politician, rate collector

Henry Matthew Stowell ('Hare Hongi'): gregarious, convivial and gleefully theatrical

Stowell, Henry Matthew

1859–1944

Ngāpuhi interpreter, genealogist

Te Pairi Tūterangi about 1930

Te Pairi Tūterangi

?–1954

Tūhoe leader, tohunga, orator, carver, weaver

Te Taiawatea Rangitūkehu, Maata

1848 to 1849 (year uncertain)–1929

Tūhourangi and Ngāti Awa woman of mana

Tumutara, Eruera Hāmiora

1859 to 1860 (year uncertain)–1930

Ngāti Awa and Ngāti Tūwharetoa; Ringatū bishop

Whitu, Wī

1908–1983

Tūhoe; cook, blacksmith, midwife, exhumer

Tāngia te kōrero katoa

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Judith Binney. 'Rua Kēnana Hepetipa', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 1996. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/biographies/128349/related-biographies (accessed 4 June 2026).