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Mohi Ngāponga

Nga Tohu

In 1840 more than 500 chiefs signed the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand’s founding document. Ngā Tohu, when complete, will contain a biographical sketch of each signatory.

Signing

Signature Sheet Signed as Probable name Tribe Hapū Signing Occasion
12 Sheet 8 — The Cook Strait (Henry Williams) Sheet Napuna Mohi Ngāponga Taranaki Ngāti Haumia Port Nicholson, 29 April 1840

Mohi Ngāponga signed Te Tiriti at Port Nicholson on 29 April 1840. Details of his life are recorded in Nga Tupuna o Te Whanganui-a-Tara: 

In about 1834 [Mohi] led a group of people from Waikanae to settle first at Ngauranga and then Te Aro Pā … Mohi was present at the special gathering of iwi on Matiu Somes Island before Pōmare and most of the Ngāti Mutunga left for the Chatham Islands. At that meeting he was given the areas of Te Aro and Paekawakawa (Island Bay).

Nga Tupuna o Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Vol. 1, Wellington City Council, 2001, p. 15.

 

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