Ko tāna mahi i tēnei o ōna hokinga mai he hohou haere i te rongo i waenganui o ngā hapū e pakanga tonu ana tētahi ki tētahi (TP 6/1907:5). / His work on this return trip was to establish peace amongst the kinship groups that were still at war with one another.
E mōhio ana ētahi o tātou i te wā i pakangatia ai ā rātou kēhi i roto i te Hupirimi Kōti i whakataua ai kua manakore rātou ki ō rātou whenua i te mea kua nuku atu i te 20 tau te Pākehā e noho pōhēhē ana i runga i aua whenua, ā, i roto i aua tau kāore rātou, ngā Pākehā, i utu rēti, i tonoa rānei kia utu rēti, i whakararurarutia rānei mō tā rātou noho pōhēhē i reira (TTT 1/12/1923:5). / Some of us know that at the time their case was being fought in the Supreme Court it was determined that they had no authority over their lands because the Pākehā had been living mistakenly on those lands for more than 20 years and in that period they, the Pākehā, had not paid rent, or been asked to pay rent, or been harassed about their mistaken occupation at that place.

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He tino tata tō rātou pākanga atu ki a Ngāti Toa (TTR 1990:201). / Their connection to Ngāti Toa was very close.

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Ko Tamarau Waiari, ko ōna atu ingoa anō ko Te Mākarini Te Wharehuia, ko Te Mākarini Kaikino, otiia, he rangatira manu taupua nō ōna hapū pākanga kiritahi o Ngāti Koura, o Ngāi Te Riu, o Ngāti Muriwai, o Ngāti Hinekura nō roto o te iwi o Tūhoe (TTR 1994:113). / Tamarau Waiari, also known as Te Mākarini Te Wharehuia and Te Mākarini Kaikino, was a high ranked chief of his closely related hapū of Ngāti Koura, Ngāi Te Riu, Ngāti Muriwai and Ngāti Hinekura, within the Tūhoe tribe.

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Ko rātau ētahi o ngā hōia tāpiri atu ki Te Hokowhitu-ā-Tū kua tae kē ki te pae o te pakanga (HP 1991:33). / They were some of the additional troops of the Māori Battalion that had already been to the battlefield.

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Nō reira, e kui mā, e koro mā, huaina iho tā koutou pōtiki ki a 'Te Hokowhitu-a-Tū' hei whakamaharatanga ki ā koutou tamariki, mokopuna, e takoto mai rā i runga i ngā māra o te pakanga (TTT 1/7/1922:4). / Therefore, elderly men and women, name your infant child 'Te Hokowhitu-a-Tū' as a memorial to your children and grandchildren lying on the battlefields.

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I a mātau i rāwāhi, i Ihipa, i te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao, ka noho tō mātau ope ki Māti, e pātata atu ana ki Kairo (HP 1991:53). / When we were overseas, in Egypt, in the Second World War, our company lived at Maadi, close to Cairo.

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Nō mua atu i te Pakanga Nui o te Ao Tuatahi mai i te 1914 ki te 1918 (HP 1991:21). / It was before the First World War from 1914 to 1918.

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