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Hōri Mahue Ngata (8 August 1919 – 15 February 1989) was a New Zealand Ngāti Porou farmer, railway worker, workers’ camp supervisor, accountant, lexicographer. His parents were Mākarini Tānara Ngata, a farmer, who was the eldest son of Sir Āpirana Ngata , and Maraea Mereana Baker.
Ngata was born in Te Araroa (then called Kawakawa), a small coastal town about 175 km (109 mi) north of Gisborne, New Zealand. [3] His iwi was Ngāti Porou.His father was Paratene Ngata, a tribal leader and expert in traditional lore, and his mother was Katerina Naki, the daughter of an itinerant Scot, Abel Enoch. [1]
Āpirana Ngata (left) and Te Rangihīroa during the Fourth Dominion Museum ethnological expedition to Waiomatatini in 1923. The 1919–1923 Dominion Museum ethnological expeditions were a series of ethnological research expeditions encouraged and led by Āpirana Ngata and Te Rangihīroa, and undertaken between 1919 and 1923 with Elsdon Best, James McDonald and Johannes Andersen, to study ...
Ngata in 2007. Tanara Whairiri Kitawhiti "Whai" Ngata ONZM (c. 1942 – 3 April 2016) was a Māori broadcaster, journalist, and lexicographer. Ngata worked for Radio New Zealand from 1975 to 1983, before moving to Television New Zealand. He led the Māori department at TVNZ until his retirement in 2008.
Arihia Kane Ngata, Lady Ngata, MBE (née Tāmati; 1879 – 18 April 1929) was a New Zealand community leader. Born at Whareponga , she married Āpirana Ngata at age sixteen, and together they had fifteen children.
Ngata is a Māori surname, most commonly found among members of the Ngāti Porou iwi. The name is also occasionally found in Tonga , where it was the name of a 17th-century leader, the first Tu'i Kanokupolu .
Ngata people are Bantus from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central Africa. Etymology. Ngatas are mentioned under various names in various sources. These ...
His parents were the politician Āpirana Ngata (1874–1950) and the community leader Arihia Ngata (née Tamati, 1879–1929). [2] Ngata was their youngest son and of his 14 siblings, 10 survived to adulthood. [3] The lexicographer Hōri Ngata (1919–1989), his nephew, was his eldest brother Mac's son. [4] Whai Ngata was Hōri Ngata's son. [5]