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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Puhipuhi

Puhipuhi.

Puhipuhi is the name given to an extensive district, about 124 miles to the north of Auckland, with which it has communication twice a week by steamer, via Whangarei. Puhipuhi is in the Bay of Islands County.

Eruera Nehua, was baptised at Pakaraka by Archdeacon Williams, in the year 1837. He belongs to the Ngatirahiri branch of the great Ngapuhi tribe. Ngatirahiri was the branch of the Ngatirahiri was the branch of the Ngapuhi from which the famous fighting chief Hone Heke sprang, and the mother of Eruera Nehua was a younger sister of Hone Heke's mother. Eruera Nehua came to reside in the Puhipuhi district with his mother and other members of the tribe at the time of the fight at Ruapekapeka After the fight was over Eruera with some of his relatives went to reside at Ruatangata at the Ngamako settlement, whence they moved to Pehiawiri. In 1860 he removed to his present residence at Taharoa, Puhipuhi. There were no roads from Whangarei at that time and he cut the first road himself. The Puhipuhi block was afterwards surveyed at Eruera Nehua's instigation by the late Sydney Taiwhanga, and was adjudicated upon by the Native Land Court before which Eruera Nehua proved the claim of himself and his tribe to 20,000 acres, and 5000 acres were adjudicated to the late chief Kawiti Maihi of Waiomio. Eruera Nehua has reserved to himself and his family 2000 acres. The railway is now constructed to Puhipuhi and great advances have been made in civilization. Eruera Nehua is much respected by his fellow settlers. In 1862 he married Te Tawaka, the grand daughter of the famous chief, Tamati Waka Nene, the friend of the white man in the early days of the settlement of New Zealand. Mr. and Mrs. Eruera Nehua have had fourteen children, nine of whom are alive, and the chief lives in friendship with all his Pakeha neighbours.