Hauraki Iwi History

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

Pipiwharauroa, Issue 8, 1 October 1898, Page 2

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

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

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

This lithograph - showing Kaitōtehe Pā in the foreground and Taupiri in the background - was based upon an 1844 painting by George Frederick Angas. The ancestor Pāoa originally lived at this pā on the Waikato River (opposite Taupiri) before migrating to Hauraki. See here . This version of the story of the ancestor Pāoa was extracted from a manuscript entitled 'Marutuahu', written by Tukumana Te Taniwha of Ngāti Whanaunga and Ngāti Pāoa in 1929. The manuscript is held in the Library of the Auckland War Memorial Museum. You can see the catalogue entry for the manuscript here . The story covers the following events in the life of Pāoa: Pāoa's lineage, being the younger sibling of Paretahuri and Mahuta of Tainui and Te Arawa Pāoa is embarrassed during the visit by his older brother Mahuta to his home at Kaitotehe Pā, near  Taupiri, Waikato. Pāoa departs Waikato and moves to Mirimirirau, a pā on the banks of the Piako River, Hauraki. Pāoa receives an invitation from Tukut...

Fairies, or patupaiarehe, were said to be much like human beings, but with white skins and red hair. They lived on the mountain tops. Most of the time they could not be seen, though sometimes on a misty day a tohunga might catch a glimpse of them.  One of the places most frequented by the fairies was Moehau, the high mountain at Cape Colville on the Coromandel Peninsula. Edward Tregear, in his book The Maori Race (p. 523), tells us that Moehau was so sacred to the fairies that few people dared approach it, but that ‘those who did so had wonderful stories to relate of seeing fairy-forts made of interlaced supplejack, and of finding plantations of gourds. If anyone attempted to lift one of these gourds it was found to be too heavy to move’. John White says that the fairies' pa were in dense forest on the heights of the mountain, and that no man could make a way through the woven supplejack that surrounded them ( Journal of the Polynesian Society , vol. 33, p. 211).  The mountai...

New Zealand Illustrated Magazine , Issue 309, 1 August 1905, Page 371

Ko whare, ara ko wharewharenga-i-te-rangi. Ka noho a Whare me tana iwi i Hau-raki i to ratou kainga i Taumaha-rua i roto i te awa o O-hine-muri. Ka tae ki aua ra ka pouri te ngakau o Whare ki te mahi whakatete o tana iwi ki ana whakahau, a ka riri aia, a ka taraa te rangi i Whare kia ua te ua o te rangi kia tinga ai te manawa whakahi o tana iwi ki aia. Nei koa he Tohunga makutu a Whare, a tutu ana te awha, tuku tonu te ua, ano ka pukea nga kainga o tana iwi e te wai ka karanga atu tana iwi ki a Whare ka mea, “E Whare e, taraa te rangi kia mao ai.” Ka oho atu a Whare ki ta ratou aue ka mea “E kore a Whare e tara i te rangi, he ua haere [tuku] mai i roto i Kete-riki,” a raru ana tana iwi i te mate kai, i te mahi a te waipake, ka ea te mate o Whare i te ua o te rangi. Ko Kete-riki, he maunga i te taha o te Aroha, i tua tata atu o te kainga i noho ai a Whare ma. Ancient History of the Maori , Volume IV, by John White, p. 50

Daily Southern Cross , Volume V, Issue 225, 24 August 1849, Page 4

Te Wananga, Volume 2, Issue 31, 4 December 1875, Page 398

  Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXI, Issue 2496, 20 July 1865, Page 1

The following versions of the story concerning the journey of Tainui from Hawaiki to Aotearoa appear in Volume IV of Ancient History of the Maori by John White. (Government Printer 1888) These versions are attributed to Ngāti Maru and the first version was undoubtedly extracted from a manuscript by Hoani Nahe. An English translation, again sourced from Ancient History of the Maori, appears after each version. You can read about John White here . Version 1 (pp. 21-23) He korero mo te haerenga mai o nga tupuna o te Maori i Hawa-iki. Ka timata i ta nga kaumatua Maori wahi i mohio ai. Ko te take i haere mai ai te tangata Maori ki tenei motu he whawhai nui noa atu i Hawa-iki; tini noa atu nga tangata i tu ki taua whawhaitanga, a he tini ano hoki nga tangata ki te hinganga. Ko te ingoa o tenei parekura ko te Ra-to-rua. No te taenga mai ki konei ki Ao-tea-roa nei ka titoa atu he waiata mo taua parekura nei mo te Ra-to-rua. Nga tangata nana tenei parekura ko Heta tetahi, ko Ue-nuku tetahi; na...

Te Ao Hou, March 1959, Page 12 Here is an unedited version of this text. I have placed some suggested corrections in the text using square brackets [ ]. OF TANIWHA, NGARARA AND HOW PAEROA GOT ITS NAME by LEO FOWLER  I had always thought that the town of Paeroa got its name from the long ridge of hills behind it pae-roa . But I was wrong. I found that there was another and older meaning to the name. There is a very old, old story about the naming of Paeroa. I learned the story first, many years ago, from Hoane [Hoani] Te Huia of Paeroa, and later heard other versions from other old Maoris of my acquaintance.  I don't know what the name of the place was before it was called Paeroa. Some have told me it was Ruawea, [Ruawehea] some Ohinemuri, but these are district names, as far as I know. Anyway, in a cave near the hill now known as Turner's Hill, near the present town of Paeroa there lived a taniwha, or ngarara, named “Urea.” [Ureia] I have no certain knowledge as to what was th...