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Kahupeka of Ngāti Whanaunga

Here is an extract from an article by George Graham concerning whāngai. He recounts a story pertaining to Kahupeka, a well known kuia of Kaiaua. 'A granddaughter was born unto a Ngati Whanaunga chief of fame of recent times. His ohahi was that the girl was to be an ingoa (namesake) for him. The name indicated was “Kahupeka,” his grandmother's name.  In due course he, in Maori customary way, bestowed a piece of land (tukua he whenua) as an abiding-place for his ingoa. Her family settled down there, built their houses, fenced and cultivated the land for some years. However, the old gentleman without prior reference to his ingoa's parents, sold that land to a Pakeha. This act was regarded as kohuru (treachery), and wiped out all respect for his ohaki.  First destroying all the houses by fire, chopping down the fruit trees, fencing, etc., they vacated the land, leaving a curse thereon. They migrated to another place where forgetting not, they forgave not.  Later the o

Te Matenga o Paora Te Putu, Ngāti Tamaterā

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AOTEAROA, OR THE MAORI RECORDER , VOLUME 1, ISSUE 2, 1 JANUARY 1862 See also below: http://www.nzdl.org/gsdlmod?gg=full&e=d-00000-00---off-0niupepa--00-0----0-10-0---0---0direct-10---4-------0-1lpc--11-en-50---20-about-tamatera--00-0-21-00-0-0-11-1-0utfZz-8-00-0-0-11-10-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&cl=search&d=13_1_2.20 

Ngā Pou Kīngi in Hauraki, list of maunga pledged as 'pou' of the King Movement in Hauraki, 1893, 1907

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The following extracts were taken from the 1893 and the 1907 editions of the King Movement newspaper entitled Te Paki o Matariki. These extracts list the various mountains throughout both the North and South Islands that were pledged as 'post' (pou) for the house of the King and the King Movement. Both lists include four maunga from Hauraki and their respective iwi as follows: Moehau, Ngāti Tamaterā Kohukohunui, Ngāti Whanaunga Rātāroa, Ngāti Pāoa Te Aroha-a-uta, Ngāti Maru, Ngāi Te Rangi Te Aroha-a-tai, Hauraki Moehau is the large peak at the northern end of the Coromandel Peninsula and Kohukohunui is the highest peak in the Hūnua Ranges, western Hauraki. Rātāroa is located near Waitakaruru, at the southern of the Hūnua Ranges, and Te Aroha is the maunga located adjacent to modern day Te Aroha. Here is the 1893 extract: Te Paki o Matariki, 25 July 1893, p. 4 Here is the 1907 extract: Te Paki o Matariki, 2 May 1907 p. 1

The Passing of Raika Whakarongotai

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Te Korimako 1882-1890: Volume 0, No. 54:  9