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Haurongo: Jones, Pei Te Hurinui

Haurongo tūhonohono

Peter Henry Buck

Buck, Peter Henry

1877 (year uncertain)–1951

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

Te Kirihaehae Te Puea Hērangi

Hērangi, Te Kirihaehae Te Puea

1883–1952

Waikato woman of mana, Kīngitanga leader

Leslie Kelly, about 1925

Kelly, Leslie George

1906–1959

Ngāti Mahuta; journalist, engine-driver, historian

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

Puhiwahine Te Rangi-hirawea, Rihi

?–1906

Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Ngāti Maniapoto composer of waiata

Ratana, Haami Tokouru

1894–1944

Ngāti Apa; politician, Rātana leader

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

Williams, Herbert William

1860–1937

Anglican bishop, Maori linguist

Biographies that mention Jones, Pei Te Hurinui

Biggs, Bruce Grandison

1921–2000

Ngāti Maniapoto; ethnographer, linguist, champion of te reo Māori

A gathering of Māori linguists

Ehau, Kepa Hāmuera Ānaha

1885–1970

Ngāti Tarāwhai and Ngāti Whakaue leader, law clerk, interpreter, soldier, historian, orator

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

King, Michael

1945–2004

Historian, biographer, journalist, writer

Mahuta, Tūmate

1893 (year uncertain)–1938

Ngāti Mahuta; King movement leader and negotiator

Hēmi Pōtatau, 1977

Pōtatau, Hēmi

1904–1994

Ngāti Kahungunu and Ngāti Rākaipaaka; Presbyterian minister, soldier, writer

A 1940 re-enactment of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi

Rankin, Hōne Heke

1896–1964

Ngāpuhi leader, medical worker, farmer

Te Atairangikaahu Korokī Te Rata Mahuta Tāwhiao Pōtatau Te Wherowhero

1931–2006

Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Apakura, Ngāti Maniapoto; Māori queen

Hepi Hoani Te Heuheu Tūkino VII

Te Heuheu Tūkino VII, Hepi Hoani

1919–1997

Ngāti Tūwharetoa leader, trust board chairman

Hetekia Te Kani a Takirau Kerekere Tūhoe te Ua

te Ua, Hetekia Te Kani-ā-Takirau Kerekere Tūhoe

1892–1966

Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki leader, genealogist, orator

Maharaia Winiata addresses an audience

Winiata, Maharaia

1912–1960

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

Tāngia te kōrero katoa

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Bruce Biggs. 'Jones, Pei Te Hurinui', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 1998. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/biographies/127252/related-biographies (accessed 23 June 2026).