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Kōrero: Ngā māngai – Māori representation

Ko Wiremu Pere

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Wiremu Pere, MP

Ko te kaitōrangapū o te Tai Rāwhiti ko Wī Pere tēnei i te tau 1885, kotahi tau i muri iho i tōna kōwhiringa tuatahi ki te tūru o te Tai Rāwhiti. Aua atu nō te kōwhiringa o te tau 1887, ka riro tōna tūru ki a Timi Kara. I muri mai ka wini i a Kara te tūru whānui o Waiapu, ā, ka whakahokia atu a Pere ki te tūru o te Tai Rāwhiti i te tau 1894. I tūhono atu ia ki te Kotahitanga, ā, nāna te whakahau kia whakatūria tētahi pāremata Māori.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, General Assembly Library Collection (PAColl-0838)

Reference: 35mm-00189-B-F

by William Henshaw Clarke

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

Ngā whakaahua me ngā rauemi katoa o tēnei kōrero

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Rawiri Taonui, Ngā māngai – Māori representation – Controversy over Māori seats, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/33914/ko-wiremu-pere (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Rawiri Taonui, i tāngia i te 5 June 2012, updated 15 July 2016.