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Kōrero: Waikato tribes

Pirongia

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Pirongia mountain

Ko Te Pirongia-o-te-Aroaro-o-Kahu tēnei. I puta te ingoa nei i te wehenga o Kahu i tōna kāinga i Kāwhia kia haere ki ngā whenua i te riu ki Waikato me te raki o te moana o Taupō. Nā Kahu i taunaha te maha o ngā puke, ngā maunga, ngā tohu whenua. E maumaharatia ana anō a Pirongia, ko te kāinga tēnei o te iwi ‘patupaiarehe’.

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by Lloyd Homer

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal, Waikato tribes – Ancestors, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/1723/pirongia (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal, i tāngia i te 4 March 2009, updated 1 March 2017.