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Kōrero: Tōrangapū – Māori and political parties

Ngā Māngai Māori Tuatahi: Tāreha Te Moananui

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First Māori MPs: Tāreha Te Moananui

Ko Tāreha Te Moananui tēnei (o Ngāti Kahungunu) kei te pikitia nei nā Gottfried Lindauer i tā. Ko Tāreha te mema o te Tai Rāwhiti mai te tau 1868 ki te tau 1870. I whakahē ia i ngā hoko whenua i Heretaunga ā, tae rawa ki tōna aruarutanga ki tōna hōtera e ētahi tokorua toa hokohoko me tō rāua kaiwhakapākehā. E toru ngā rangi rātou i whaiwhai haere i a ia. (Quoted in M. B. Boyd, City of the plains: a history of Hastings. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1984, p. 10)

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Ann Sullivan, Tōrangapū – Māori and political parties – Creating a Māori electoral system, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/36733/first-maori-mps-tareha-te-moananui (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Ann Sullivan, i tāngia i te 15 June 2012, updated 26 February 2026.