Poroutawhao

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Poroutawhao is a small rural settlement in the Horowhenua District of New Zealand's North Island. It is located just north-west of Levin on State Highway 1.

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The settlement has a school and a community hall, which due to its old age has been expensive to maintain. [1]

Huia Marae and Matau Marae, located next to each other south of the main settlement, are traditional meeting grounds of the Ngāti Raukawa hapū of Ngāti Huia. [2] [3]

There are several Māori land blocks around the marae, and both north and south of the settlement. [4]

History

Ngati Toa leader Te Rangihaeata and his followers settled in the coastal river swamp in the 1840s, following the Wairau Affray and the Hutt Valley Campaign. [5]

The party set up a defensible position against colonial forces, but received little support from other Māori. Te Rangihaeata raided Kapiti Island in 1847, as his party tried to fend off starvation. He also starting charging a toll to people travelling through Poroutawhao on the Foxton to Levin Road, until reaching an agreement with Governor Grey in 1853. [6]

Te Rangihaeata died at Poroutawhao in 1855 and was buried there with his wife, Ngati Apa woman of mana Te Pikanga. [6] [7]

In 1920, Native Land Court agent and interpreter Ben Keys travelled through Poroutawhao, [8] recording the experiences of local Māori in his diary. [9]

A 1963 photograph of the Huia marae, held at Kapiti Coast Library, shows a small carved house with Kowhaiwhai decorations on the porch. [10]

Education

Poroutawhao School is a co-educational state primary school for Year 1 to 8 students, [11] with a roll of 105 as of March 2021. [12]

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References

  1. ↑ Lok, Kara (5 May 2011). "Halls failing to pay their way?". stuff.co.nz. Horowhenua Mail.
  2. ↑ "Te Kāhui Māngai directory". tkm.govt.nz. Te Puni Kōkiri.
  3. ↑ "Māori Maps". maorimaps.com. Te Potiki National Trust.
  4. ↑ "Whenua Viz – Poroutawhao". whenuaviz.landcareresearch.co.nz. Landcare Research.
  5. ↑ "History Part 2". gw.govt.nz. Greater Wellington Regional Council.
  6. 1 2 Ballara, Angela. "Te Rangihaeata". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography . Ministry for Culture and Heritage.
  7. ↑ Ballara, Angela. "Te Rangihaeata". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography . Ministry for Culture and Heritage.
  8. ↑ Keys, Ben (October 1920). Diary.
  9. ↑ Hilliard, C (2010). "Licensed Native Interpreter: The Land Purchaser as Ethnographer in Early-20th-Century New Zealand". The Journal of Pacific History. 42 (2): 229–245. doi:10.1080/00223344.2010.501699. JSTOR   25764400.
  10. ↑ Leonard, C P. "Leonard Collection – Huia Marae". Kapiti Coast Libraries. Kapiti Coast District Council.
  11. ↑ "Ministry of Education School Profile". educationcounts.govt.nz. Ministry of Education.
  12. ↑ "Education Review Office Report". ero.govt.nz. Education Review Office.

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