Te Manihera Poutama (? – 12 March 1847) was a New Zealand mission teacher and Anglican missionary. Of Māori descent, he identified with the Ngāti Ruanui iwi. He was born in Taranaki, New Zealand. [1]
Ngāti Ruanui is a Māori iwi traditionally based in the Taranaki region of New Zealand. In the 2006 census, 7,035 people claimed affiliation to the iwi. However, most members now live outside the traditional areas of the iwi.
Manunui is a small Whanganui River settlement, about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) east of Taumarunui on State Highway 4, in New Zealand's King Country. It was once known as Waimarino, but John Burnand of the Ellis and Burnand sawmilling firm renamed it Manunui around 1905.
The following lists events that happened during 1847 in New Zealand.
Purangi is a locality east of Inglewood, New Zealand, situated on the banks of the Waitara River. It is within the traditional tribal lands of Ngāti Maru iwi. Today, Ngāti Maru's headquarters are at Tarata. The Marae is called Te Upoko o te Whenua.
Richard Taylor was a Church Missionary Society (CMS) missionary in New Zealand. He was born on 21 March 1805 at Letwell, Yorkshire, England, one of four children of Richard Taylor and his wife, Catherine Spencer.
The Ngāti Tama is a historic Māori tribe of present-day New Zealand. Their origins, according to Maori oral tradition, date back to Tama Ariki, the chief navigator on the Tokomaru waka. They are located in north Taranaki, around Poutama. River Mōhakatino marks their northern boundary with the Tainui and the Ngāti Maniapoto. The close geographical proximity of Tainui's Ngāti Toa of Kawhia and the Ngati Mutunga explains the long, continuous, and close relationship among these three tribes.
Kaine Manihera is a professional rugby league footballer who currently plays for the Northern Pride in the Queensland Cup. He plays on the wing.
Mete Kīngi Te Rangi Paetahi was a Member of Parliament in New Zealand. He was one of four Māori elected in the first Māori elections of 1868 for the new Māori electorates in the House of Representatives.
The Hong Kong national netball team represents Hong Kong in international netball tournaments. They compete in the biannual Asian Netball Championship. They are currently ranked 33rd in the world.
Te Kiore Paremata Te Wahapiro was a New Zealand tribal leader. Of Māori descent, he identified with the Ngati Tama iwi. He was born in Poutama, Taranaki, New Zealand.
Hoani Retimana Waititi was a notable New Zealand teacher, educationalist and community leader. Of Māori descent, he identified with the Te Whānau-ā-Apanui iwi. He was born in Whangaparaoa near Cape Runaway, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, in 1926. His father was Kūaha Waititi, a farmer, and his mother was Kirimātao Heremia Kerei, both of them of the Te Whānau-a-Kauaetangohia hapū of Te Whānau-ā-Apanui. He trained as a teacher in 1947–48 and gained a BA at in 1955. He worked as a teacher and in other areas of education. He died of cancer at the age of 39. Hoani Waititi Marae in West Auckland is named in his honour. June Mariu is his niece, the daughter of his older brother Manihera. Rawiri Waititi is his great-nephew.
Te Mānihera Te Rangi-taka-i-waho (1800-1885) was a notable New Zealand tribal leader, farmer and land assessor. Of Māori descent, he identified with the Ngāti Kahungunu iwi. He was born at Pāpāwai near present-day Greytown in the Wairarapa, New Zealand.
Te Pūoho-o-te-rangi (died 1836 or 1837), also known as Te Pūoho-ki-te-rangi, was a notable New Zealand tribal leader. A Māori, he identified with the Ngāti Tama and Ngāti Toa iwi. Te Pūoho was born in Poutama, Taranaki, New Zealand, possibly in the late eighteenth century. Late in his life, he moved to the South Island and settled at Parapara.
Maata Mahupuku, also known as Martha Grace and Martha Asher, was the muse and lover of short-story writer Katherine Mansfield. Of Māori ancestry, descended from a New Zealand tribal leader, she identified with the Ngati Kahungunu iwi.
Te Manihera Te Ikahaehae was a Māori Anglican Lay-preacher from the Ngāti Maru of Taranaki iwi. He converted to Anglicanism in the 1850s. He was responsible for bringing the Bell of Purangi from Whanganui to Taranaki.
Jordan Manihera is a New Zealand rugby union player who currently plays as a flanker for the San Diego Legion in the MLR. He also played for Waikato in the ITM Cup and the Blues in Super Rugby.
Matahiwi is a farming community 55 kilometres (34 mi) upriver from Whanganui, New Zealand, home to the Māori hapū known as Ngā Poutama of the iwi Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi. The township takes its name from the bush-clad puke (hill) on the western side of the Whanganui River, right above the local marae, whose name translates as "the face on the ridge".
Koriniti is a settlement 47 kilometres (29 mi) upriver from Whanganui, New Zealand, home to the Ngāti Pāmoana hapū of the iwi Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi.
Ngatuere Tawhirimatea Tawhao was a Māori leader from the Ngāti Kahungunu iwi (tribe), during early European settlement of the Wairarapa region of New Zealand in the 19th century. He had risen to prominence as a tribal leader by the 1820s. His people were later attacked by other iwi and eventually displaced, before returning to the Wairarapa around the 1840s. This return coincided with early European colonisation in the region, which sometimes brought him into conflict with settlers; missionaries, including William Colenso; and even other Māori chiefs, in particular Te Manihera Te Rangi-taka-i-waho. While he had numerous disagreements with the New Zealand colonial government over land purchases, he also kept his people from attacking European settlers during the New Zealand Wars, in order to protect the interests of himself and his people. He died on 29 November 1890.
Pura McGregor, also known as Pura Makarika, was a community leader in Whanganui, New Zealand, and the first Māori woman to receive an MBE. She was of Ngā Poutama, Ngāti Ruāka and Ngāti Rangi descent.