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Waiorooro, a place where stone was fashioned

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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 184, 5 August 1902, Page 3  

Tarawa, a type of fishing lair used in the Piako River (also types of fish)

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  Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 184, 5 August 1902, Page 3

Death of Hori Ngākapa Te Whanaunga of Ngāti Whanaunga, 1904

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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12493, 10 February 1904, Page 5

'Te Takanga o Te Karauna Hou, he pu-rangatira no Hauraki' 1885

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  Te Korimako, 16 Pepuere 1885, Volume 0, No. 37

'The Building of Hotunui, Whare Whakairo, W. H. Taipari's Carved House at Thames, 1878'

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Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand,  Volume 30, 1897, 1897, Page 41

An 1874 visit by Ropata Wahawaha of Ngāti Porou to Hauraki

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Te Waka Maori o Nu Tirani, Pukapuka 10, No. 7, 1874

A Report by Ropata Wahawaha of Ngāti Porou concerning his visit to Mataora, Coromandel, in 1870.

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Waka Maori, Volume VI, Issue 13, 30 August 1870, Page 57

'Engagement with Rebel Maoris', attacks in the Hūnua Ranges (1863)

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Franklin Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 132, 13 November 1933, Page 5

'Ten Charges. Horse Stealing Alleged', Whakatīwai, 1930

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Franklin Times, Volume XX, Issue 75, 2 July 1930, Page 5

Conflict between the patupaiarehe of Te Aroha and Rangitoto Mountains

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Te Aroha Maunga, Hauraki  (Please note: I do not own this image or rights to its use.   Please let me know if you know from whom I may seek permission to use this image .) The following story was published in the Journal of the Polynesian Society in 1921 and tells of conflict between the patupaiarehe of the Te Aroha-Moehau ranges (led by Ruatāne) and patupaiarehe of Rangitoto, Wharepūhunga and Maungatautari (led by Tarapīkau). The text beneath has not been edited. T HE PATU-PAIAREHE OF RANGITOTO AND TE AROHA. An elder of Ngati-Maniapoto narrates this tradition of the Patu-paiarehe of his district, a legend into which a considerable element of the marvellous enters:— In the days of old a chief named Rua-tane was the rangatira of the Patu-paiarehe tribe, who inhabited the forests of Te Aroha mountain and the wooded ranges extending thence northward to Moehau (Cape Colville). Tarapikau was the chief of the Patu-paiarehe who lived on the ranges of Rangitoto, Wharepuhunga, and...

‘Te Ahatokai’ a hākari in 5 May 1876

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Te Wananga Pukapuka 3, No. 17, p. 221

Meeting of the ‘Māori Church’ of the Bishopric of Aotearoa, 23-24 March 1898, Pārāwai, Hauraki

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Pipiwharauroa, Issue 8, 1 October 1898, Page 2

'Te Hui nui ki Ohinemuri' (Visit by King Mahuta to Hauraki), 1895

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  Te Paki o Matariki, No. 4, 1895, p. 4