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Nelson Historical Society Journal, Volume 06, Issue 01, 1996

References:

page 16

References:

1e.g. see Nancy Taylor "Early Travellers in New Zealand". Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959.
2Mr Hohua MacDonald Whakapapa files, date unclear; sourced from Tanerau Hemi Kerei. Included in Brief of Evidence of Bradley family to Maori Appellate Court, Christchurch, June 1990.
3Nelson Minute Book #6 folio 60, 1907. Also from Mrs Kath Hemi and Mrs Kuini Mei Haeata. Omaka Marae, Blenheim.
4e.g. Nelson Minute Book No. 5, folios 78–79.
5The iwi (tribes) of Ngati Apa, Ngati Kuia and Rangitane are sometimes referred to collectively as the 'Kurahaupo' iwi, since they have a number of lines of common descent from crew members of the 'Kurahaupo' waka (canoe) from Hawaiki.
6e.g. Mr Maika Mason, a descendant from the marriage of Wereta Tainui (Poutini Ngai Tahu) and Kokore (Ngati Tumatakokiri).
7Charles Heaphy narrative. 'Nelson Examiner', March 1846. Also Nancy Taylor p195.
8e.g. Te Kawau of Ngati Apa was installed to hold territories in Golden Bay for Ngati Rarua and Te Atiawa; he discharged those duties with such diligence that he was arrested and fined in late 1842 for trying to protect those assets from exploitation by New Zealand Company settlers.
9Kehu is recorded, with other Maori and New Zealand Company survey assistants, among those carrying out these surveys, in the Surveyors' field books held by the Department of Survey and Land Information, Nelson.
10We cannot identify where, when or by whom Kehu was baptised; he is not listed (at least not as Kehu or Hone Mokekehu) in the earliest baptismal registers of the Wesleyan (Rev Ironside and Aldred) or Anglican missionaries (Rev Saxton and Reay) which date from late 1840. Earlier, in April 1836, the Methodist Rev William White spent one day in Port Underwood, and 14 months later Anglican Rev Samuel Marsden also paid a brief visit; it is not known whether they baptised any of the locals, but the need for a mission station in this district was emphasised. Many Maori in the Sounds received Christian instruction in 1839 and 1840; in mid-1839 a group of young Methodist Maori missioners were brought by Revs JH Bumby and J Hobbs, to work with and preach to Maori people at the whaling stations throughout the Sounds. They also taught reading and writing. Unfortunately no registers of any of these efforts prior to December 1840 seem to have survived.
11This was probably Hamiora Haeana Pito, freeman of Ngati Rarua of Motueka, who had also been employed from time to time in surveying parties. In 1841 he had guided the NZ Co's exploration by boat from Motueka of the Waimea and Whakatu coastline, eventually leading to the discovery of Nelson Haven, which became the preferred port and site for the establishment of the new settlement's main town.
12Frederick Tuckett: letter to Principal Agent. New Zealand Company. In National Archives, Manuscript No. NZC 208/2 No. 94.
13Later to become Sir William Fox, and Premier of New Zealand.
14 Nelson Examiner 14/3/1846
15 Nelson Examiner 7/3/1846.
16 page 17This might have been their first reunion for more than 15 years although Matanohinohi, who was mother of Kehu and Mahuika, and others of their family had travelled to Nelson from the West Coast to be baptised by Rev Aldred in July the previous year. "Hoard Waitere Mawika" was among those baptised (on 13th July 1845), being recorded as a "Native Adult" in the Wesley Church's Nelson Baptismal Register. 1842–1971.
17 Charles Heaphy journal (in Nancy Taylor).
18A recent television documentary names Kehu's wife as 'Mary', but we have not found her referred to by any name in Brunner's accounts of the expedition, nor in any other record, colonial or Maori.
19 Thomas Brunner. Journal, 22/11/1847.
20 Thomas Brunner. Journal, 27/1/1848.
21Nelson Minute Book No. 5, 30th April 1901; folios 78–79. Evidence of Hohaia Rangiauru and Tuiti Makitonore.
22Nelson Minute Book No.5, 30th April 1901; folio 81. Evidence of Hohaia Rangiauru.
23Eruera Rauhihi, who died in 1896 aged 75, was apparently called "Charley Brunner" by Nelson Europeans, but he was of Ngati Tama and Ngati Rarua descent. Temple and Richardson have claimed that this man was Kehu. This is impossible: Eruera Rauhihi's father, Rawiri, was one of the senior chiefs at Motupipi, Takaka, and their whakapapa is well known, as is Kehu's. Rauhihi would have been a generation too young to have been Kehu.