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Kōrero: New Zealand Wars

Te wharenui o Te Whai-a-te-Motu

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Te Whai-a-te-Motu meeting house

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I whakatuwheratia te wharenui nei kei Ruatāhuna ki roto o Te Urewera i te marama o Āperira 1888. I tapaina ko Te Whai-a-te-Motu (ka whāia i te motu) hei maumaharatanga mo te wā i whāia a Te Kooti e ngā ope taua o te kāwanatanga ki roto o Te Urewera. E rua ngā nohonga a Te Kooti ki te rapu whakaruruhau i tēnei rohe - i te tīmatanga o 1869 ka oma atu ia i te pā kaha o Ngātapa, ka tae anō i te tau 1870 me te 1871 i mua i tana oma atu ki te Rohe Pōtae o te Kīngi i te tīmatanga o te tau 1872, ki te rapu whakaruruhau.  

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Danny Keenan, New Zealand Wars – Pursuit of Te Kooti, 1868–1872, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/36937/te-wharenui-o-te-whai-a-te-motu (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Danny Keenan, i tāngia i te 11 June 2012, updated 29 November 2022.