Wi Te Tau Huata, 1917-1991, (Ngāti Kahungunu)

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Nā Bill Kepa te waiata Auē e Ihu i hāpai. Whai muri iho, ko Wi Te Tau Huata, nāna te karakia i taki e wātea ai te wāhanga ki te pōwhiri.

I te tau 1943 i haere a Huata ki Īhipa hei kāpene mō te rōpū tautoko. I rongonui a Huata mō ngā mahi huhua, pēnei i te taki karakia, whutupaoro, whakarite konohete aha atu, aha atu.

Ka whai ia i ngā tapuwae o ōna mātua tūpuna i noho hei minita mō te hāhi mihinare. Pēnei i tana pāpā a Hēmi rāua ko tana tūpuna, a Tamihana. I kuraina a Huata i Mōhaka, Frasertown, me Turiroa. Ka mutu, i te tau 1933 ka haere a Huata ki te Kāreti o Te Aute, ako ai i ngā āhuatanga mihinare, tae noa ki te tau 1938.

Whakaahua: Padre Wi Te Tau Huata (front) disembarks from the Dominion Monarch. Framegrab from "Weekly Review 232: Maori Battalion Returns", NFU, 1946 (F726 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision)