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mutunga

1. (noun) end, conclusion, finish, terminus, finite.

(Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 147;)

Ko te mutunga tēnei o ngā karakia mō tēnei kōtiro, mō Tirarangi (JPS 1912:111). / This is the end of the ritual chant for this girl, Tirarangi.

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mutunga

1. youngest of a family.

Ngāti Mutunga

1. (personal noun) tribal group of the west coast of the North Island north of the Waitara river and the Chatham Islands.

(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 89, 113;)

kaute mutunga

1. (loan) (noun) full-time score.

mutunga kore

1. (modifier) endless, eternal, perpetual, infinite.

Ahakoa nā ngā whakatupuranga o mua i heke haere ai te rahi o ōna whenua i te mahi hokohoko me ngā rīhi mutunga kore, ko Hapi tonu te tino rangatira whai whenua i Waiwhetū tae noa pea ki te tau 1942 (TTR 1996:74). / Although the family estate had been reduced by previous generations through sales and perpetual leases, Hapi was the largest landowner at Waiwhetū perhaps until 1942.

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wā mutunga

1. (noun) full time, end of a game.

mutunga wiki

1. (loan) (noun) weekend.

I ngā rā o te mutunga wiki haere kē ana ia ki te whakangau poaka, ki te tākaro whutupaoro rānei mō te karapu whutupaoro o Pito-one (TTR 2000:107). / In the weekends he went pig-hunting or played rugby for the Petone Rugby Football Club.

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Pōmare, Māui Wiremu Piti Naera

1. (personal name) (1875/76?-1930) Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Toa; leader, medical officer, health reformer and politician, he graduated MD in 1899. He held the Western Māori seat from 1911 until his death.

Ko Māui Wiremu Piti Naera Pōmare tētehi o te whakatupuranga o ngā kaingārahu Māori i kuraina i te Kāreti o Te Aute i te tekau tau atu i 1890 (TTR 1996:137). / Māui Wiremu Piti Naera Pōmare was one of the generation of Māori leaders educated at Te Aute College in the 1890s.

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Tūhawaiki, Hōne

1. (personal name) (?-1844) Ngāi Tahu; leader, whaler, mariner and trader. His home was on Ruapuke Island but he moved about his tribal territory. He led successful battles against Ngāti Tama, Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Toa.

(Te Kōhure Textbook (Ed. 2): 152-159;)

Rangi Hīroa, Te

1. (personal name) Sir Peter Henry Buck (1877?-1951) Ngāti Mutunga; doctor, military leader, administrator, politician, anthropologist, researcher and Bishop Museum director (Honolulu). First Māori to graduate from the University of Otago and first Māori doctor to graduate from a New Zealand university.

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