Taite Te Tomo

Politician

1883 – 1939

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Who was Taite Te Tomo?

Taite Te Tomo was a Māori and Reform Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand.

He won the Western Maori electorate in a 1930 by-election after the death of Maui Pomare, but lost it in 1935 to the Ratana candidate Haami Tokouru Ratana.

In 1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.

He was a member of the Ngāti Tūwharetoa tribe, and of the Board of Ethnological Research. He died at Kākāriki Pā on 22 May 1939.

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Born
1883
Died
1939

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on July 23, 2013

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