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Kōrero: Māori rugby – whutupaoro

Te tīma rīki Māori o Aotearoa i te tau 1909

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New Zealand Māori league team, 1909

Koinei te tīma rīki Māori o Aotearoa o te tau 1909. I haere ngātahi me te tīma ki Ahitereiria ko ngā rangatira nei, a Hōne Taoai Hetet rāua ko Hekemaru Kāwhia; te kaiārahi haere, a Maggie (Mākereti) Papakura me tana tuakana, a Bella (Murai); me tētahi kaiwhakamāori, a David Barclay. Ko ngā kaitākaro (ingoa Pākehā i ngā taiapa) ko Nirai Whareure (Ned McRae, kāpene), ko Ariki Haira (Alex Stanaway), ko Tohe Hērangi (T. Searancke), ko Pou Kopana (Paul Coban), ko Rewi Maniapoto (Sid Ellis), ko Witana Mare (Murray), ko Hauāuru Pakere (Frank Barclay), ko Punga Pakere (Glenn Barclay), ko Te Keepa Pouwhiuwhiu (Ernie Asher), ko Te Rira Pukere, ko Riki Papakura, ko Nikorima Ratete (Nikki Rogers), ko Tutu Roera (Tutu Royal), ko Puhipi (Jim) Rukutai, ko Hone Taonui (John Hetet), ko Hone Tuki, ko Arapeta Wharepapa (Albert Asher), ko Tamati Wikiriwhi (Wilkinson), ko Te Kanawa Wi Neera.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Huia Publishers

Reference: John Coffey and Bernie Wood, 100 years Maori rugby league 1908-2008. Wellington: Huia, p. 42

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Malcolm Mulholland, Māori rugby – whutupaoro – Māori and rugby league – history, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/39647/new-zealand-maori-league-team-1909 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Malcolm Mulholland, i tāngia i te 3 December 2012, updated 1 January 2015.