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The Maori name Tukituki roughly translates "to demolish", presumably referring to the power of the river in flood. Maori legend has it that there are two taniwha living in lake at the southern end of the river that fought over a young boy after he fell into the lake. The struggle of the two taniwha was thought to split the river into the ...
Using that boundary, Waipukurau had a population of 4,386 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 498 people (12.8%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 225 people (5.4%) since the 2006 census. There were 1,755 households, comprising 2,082 males and 2,304 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.9 males per female, with 837 people (19.1% ...
Haumoana had a population of 1,161 at the 2018 New Zealand census, a decrease of 33 people (−2.8%) since the 2013 census, and a decrease of 36 people (−3.0%) since the 2006 census. There were 447 households, comprising 579 males and 579 females, giving a sex ratio of 1.0 males per female, with 231 people (19.9%) aged under 15 years, 189 (16 ...
[3] [4] Beneath Te Mata Peak rests the Craggy Range vineyard and the Tukituki River. [5] The name originates from the name of the hillscape in Māori, Te Mata-o-Rongokako, or "the face of Rongokako". Rongokako was an ancestor of the Ngāti Kahungunu and the area is believed to be his final resting place. [6]
Tukituki may refer to the following in New Zealand: Tukituki River; Tukituki (New Zealand electorate), ...
Taraia was a rangatira (chieftain) of Ngāti Kahungunu and ancestor of the Ngāi Te Ūpokoiri hapū.He may have lived in the early eighteenth century. [1] After his family were driven out of the East Cape region, he and his brothers led them south into Hawke's Bay, where he brought the Heretaunga Plains under Ngāti Kahungunu control, through the conquest of Pukuwheke, Heipipi, and Ōtātara.
Other major films with Māori themes or subjects include Utu (1983), The Piano (1993), Whale Rider (2002), River Queen (2005), Boy (2010), Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) and Muru (2022). The Maori Merchant of Venice (2002) was notable as a complete Māori language translation and performance of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice .
Te Wera Hauraki (?–1839) was a rangatira (chieftain) of the Ngāti Hineira and Te Uri Taniwha hapū of the Ngāpuhi iwi from the Northland region of New Zealand.From about 1818 to 1821, Te Wera went on expeditions and fought battles in the Bay of Plenty and the East Coast.