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270 (Marutuahu) (MLC Minutes)271 (Nga-ti-whatua) (MLC Minutes)272-274 Origin of battle of Whakatiwai (Ngapuhi)275 In regard to the murder at Whakatiwai (Wai-kato) (MLC Minutes)276-277 (Maru) (MLC Minutes)278 (Nga-ti-maru) (MLC Minutes)279-280 Microfilm Reference: Reel

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26 at bottom of these pages)1-4 Te Ra (Nga-puhi) CHAPTER IX 51A Challenge of Kiwi and Waha-akiaki battle (Nga-ti-whatua)51A CHAPTER VIII 29A Ancient and original people in possession of the Tamaki (Auckland) district (Nga-oho)29A Tara-ra-moa == Rongo Moe-rangaranga == Nga-whetu Tira-wai-kato == Ri-piro Wai-ta == Maiao Whetu == Kimi-raukawa Hokinga-rua Rangi-tirohia == Awarua* Totara-i-a-hua *After Awarua was born Te Kawau. (5) and that Totara-i-a-hua (the totara, podocarpus totara) near by at the side of Hua (fruit). The younger brother of Awarua was Te-kawau (big black shag) and these were the chiefs of the Tamaki (start involuntarily) district. We will now give the reason why this tribe Nga-ti-whatua came into the Kai-para district. The original home of this tribe was in the north at Muri- whenua (the rear land or lands end) at the Au-pouri (dark with smoke) at the end of this (north) island Ao-tea-roa (long fair dawn) at the locality where spirits leap into the other world, and this district was the home of our people, as the ancestors from whom we are descended all were born (or grew up) there. The reason that our people left that district, was a murder committed by the Nga-ti-kahu-mate-ika, the people who occupied, and were the original inhabitants of the Hokianga district, who murdered my ancestor called Tau-reka (year of sweet (food)) for the death of whom our people sought revenge, and we killed that people, and took possession of that district in days long long ago. Our people took all the Hokianga district even up to Maunga-nui (great mountain) on the west coast, and we occupied the land as we had killed all the original owners of that district. When our people had lived for a long time in (6) in that district, Ka-wharu (will be flaccid) commenced a war in the midst of the Kai-para district, and the first Pa he attacked and took was called Motu-remu (island of the skirt of a dress) which stood in the sea or in the water, and had a cliff on each side, and this Pa was taken by his people, as Ka-wharu was the ladder by which they climbed up over him into the Pa, as he stood against the cliff and he took the Pa and killed the people, as he was a brave and strong warrior in battle. He was a tall man, and was four spans high, and his body was one span in width, and his face was as long as from the finger end to the doubling of the arm, on to the shoulder, so that it is thought that he was twenty four feet high, and his body was six feet thick, and the length of his face was one foot six inches, and great was his power to exterminate the people on the east coast of the Kai-para district. In one day he took two Pa'

s and on the next day he took three Pa'

s more, and on the following day he took two more, and he slew that people till he arrived at Mahurangi (pulp of the kumara) and he continued his war, and attacking and killing this people even up to Motu-karaka (island of the karaka, corynocarpus laevigata) tree, near to Te-puru (the dam) opposite to Papa-roa (long flat) near Howick, and Motu-karaka was the last Pa he attacked in this war expedition in that district, and he returned to Kai-para. After he had returned to Kai-para, he lived in quiet and did not undertake any war expeditions, but soon after this his people went on a visit to Hiku-rangi (tail of heaven) consisting of one hundred. They arrived at Hiku-rangi near to Wai-takere (channel of the water) where they visited the tribe called Te- kawe-rau (straps of the nikau (areca sapida) leaves, to carry with) and this tribe of Kawe-rau murdered sixty of them, forty escaped and fled home to Kai-para, and told Ka-wharu of their misfortune, so Ka-wharu made war on the Kawe-rau (7) on the west coast, and he first attacked the Pa situate at the mouth of the Wai-takere river. This Pa is situate on an island which stands on the sea coast, and stands on the north side of the entrance to that river Wai-takere. And the water that is obtained by the occupants of that Pa is a spring of water which bubbles up on the top of the island Pa, this Pa he took, and then Ka-wharu went and laid siege to the Pa which was at the mouth of the Wai-takere, where the Pa stood was all bay, and the Pa was built on totara posts which were stuck up in the bay, and on a stage made on these posts the occupants built houses, protecting these with a fence made on the outside of the stage all around the Pa, encircling it all in one, but the war party of Ka-wharu swam to it in the night and in the dark made the attack, they took this Pa and killed all the occupants, and then Ka-wharu and his war party went to attack the Pa at the Ana-whata (cave of the ladder) and the day the attack was made on this, Ka-wharu and his war party took two Pa'