Hineraukatauri mohi

Mohi Tūrei
Born	c Te Kautuku near Rangitukia, East Cape, New Zealand
Died	2 March Rangitukia
Occupation(s)	Anglican minister and Missionary
Spouses	Meri Awhina-A-Te-Rangi Kararaina Korimete

Mohi Tūrei (c &#; 2 March ) was a notable New Zealand tribal leader, minister of religion, orator and composer of haka.

Of Māori descent, he identified with the Ngāti Porouiwi.^[1] He was the only child of Te Omanga Tūrei of Ngāti Hokupu hapū and Makere Tangikuku of Te Aitanga‐a‐Mate hapū.

Mohi biography examples Styling: Sonia Greenslade. Williams in conducting the burial service for Ropata Wahawaha , who had fought the Hauhau. Accordingly, in the early s he remained aloof from the movement advocating full implementation of the treaty. The Turanga journals, —

He was an accomplished carver including working on the Hinerupe meeting house (Wharenui) at Te Araroa,^[2] the interior carvings of Ohinewaiapu Marae.^[3] While Turei embraced Christianity, he acquired an understanding of old Maori religion and traditional learning from Pita Kapiti, a tohunga, at Te Tapere-Nui-ā-Whatonga.^[1]

He spent his childhood at Te Kautuku near Rangitukia near the mouth of the Waiapu River.

By , a school was opened at Rangitukia, which Tueri is believed to have attended. He later attended the Waerenga-ā-hika school at the mission of the Church Missionary Society (CMS), which had been established by the Rev. William Williams in the Gisborne area.^[1]

Tūeri attended the first synod of the Diocese of Waiapu at Waerenga-ā-hika on 3 December ^[4] He undertook theological study at St.

Stephen's College in Auckland.^[5] He was appointed a deacon on 25 September and appointed as the first minita (minister) at Waiapū Pariha (parish), which was the third Anglican parish established by the Ngati Porou. Hikurangi Pariha was established by the chief Ropata Wahawaha and Reverend Raniera Kawhia in and Tokomaru Pariha was established by the chief Henare Potae and Reverend Matiaha Pahewa in ^[6] In there were fourteen clergymen - six European and eight Māori - in the Diocese of Waiapu.

Mohi biography summary Instead, he urged Parliament not to make laws from which evil effects flowed. Tawhai voted against the Crown and Native Lands Rating Bill on the grounds that taxing Maori land was another step towards its alienation. Contents move to sidebar hide. He was particularly critical of the government's borrowing from Britain to pay for a war he regarded as aimed at destroying the people at Waitara.

The Māori were: at Tokomaru, Matiaha Pahewa; at Wairoa, Tamihana Huata; at Turanga, Hare Tawhaa; at Waiapu, Rota Waitoa, Raniera Kawhia and Mohi Turei; at Table Cape, Watene Moeka; at Maketu, Ihaia Te Ahu.^[7]

The Waiapu Maori Church, representing the district from Hicks Bay to Table Cape (Kahutara Point), Māhia Peninsula, met at Turanganui on 30 October There were eight clergymen present, seven of whom were Māori, as well as Māori laymen.

William Williams, who had been appointed the Bishop of Waiapū, ordained Tūrei,^[1] and Hare Tawhaa of Turanganui, as priests, and Wi Paraire of Hicks Bay and Hone Pohutu, as deacons.^[8]

Tūrei opposed the Pai Mārire movement (commonly known as Hauhau) when its missionaries were active on the East Coast by Tūrei accompanied the Ngati Porou warriors who defeated the Hauhau forces at Waerenga-ā-hika in November ^{[1][9][10][11]} On 13 July , Tūrei together with Matiaha Pahewa, Eruera Kawhia and Piripi Awarau, assisted the Rev.

H. Williams in conducting the burial service for Ropata Wahawaha, who had fought the Hauhau.^[12]

In Tūrei was appointed the first vicar of Waiapū. He supervised the building of the second St John's Church, to replace the church that was burnt by the Hauhau.^[1] He was the minister at Rangitukia until , when he retired as he had become bed-ridden with paralysis.^[1]

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