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Maketu is a
small town on the
Western Bay of
Plenty coast in New Zealand.
Maketu has an
estuary from
which the
Kaituna River used to flow,
until 1956,...
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Wiremu Kīngi
Maketū (also
known as
Maketū Wharetotara or Waretotara) (c. 1824 – 7
March 1842) was the
first person executed in New
Zealand under British...
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situated at the
summit of the
sacred hill
behind Kawhia’s
seaside marae –
Maketu Marae. The
harbour area was the
birthplace of the
prominent Māori warrior...
- them. He
staked claims to
Mount Moehau in the
Coromandel Peninsula and to
Maketu in the
central Bay of Plenty,
where he settled.
Shortly after this, he was...
- in the north, to the
Kaimai Range in the west,
south of Te Puke and to
Maketu in the east. Ngāi Te
Rangi is part of the
Tauranga Moana iwi group, which...
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known for the
cultivation of Kiwifruit. Te Puke is
close to
Tauranga and
Maketu,
which are both
coastal towns/cities, as well as the
small townships of...
- Sub-Division
Kaimai Ward: (seat at Ōmokoroa) Te Puke-
Maketu Ward: (seat at Te Puke) Te Puke Sub-Division
Maketu Sub-Division
Western Bay of
Plenty District consists...
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called Toka-parore and Tu-te-rangi-haruru, now the name of two
rocks in the
Maketu estuary. A
stone anchor in the
churchyard at
Ohinemutu is said to have come...
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rangatira of Te Arawa.
After burying his
father at Moehau, he
travelled to
Maketu to be
purified by his
uncle Kahumatamomoe,
whose daughter he married. He...
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captained the
Arawa canoe on its
journey to New
Zealand and
settled with him at
Maketu in the Bay of Plenty.
Kahumatamomoe set out on an
exploratory journey with...
