nohoanga
1. (noun) seat, chair, seating, dwelling place, abode, encampment.
Ko te nohoanga o Tangaroa-mihi kei te taha hau-waho o Moe-rangi maunga (JPS 1909:205). / Tangaroa-mihi lived outside of Moerangi Mountain.
Synonyms: tūru, nōhanga, nohonga, pae noho, tāwhanawhana, whakanohonoho
2. (noun) session, sitting, hearing.
Ka whakaritea e Taiaroa te kamupene rōia o Izard rāua ko Bell hei āwhina i a ia i ngā nohoanga o te kōmihana o Smith rāua ko Nairn (TTR 1994:102). / Taiaroa arranged for the legal firm of Izard and Bell to assist him at the Smith–Nairn commission's hearings.
3. (noun) position of responsibility, position.
Ahakoa te noho a te rōpū Riwhōma hai kāwanatanga ā tae noa ki 1928, i tino kaha rawa atu te mau o te awe o Ngata, inā rā, i te nohoanga ake ko Te Kōti hai minita Māori i 1921, ā, hai pirimia i 1925 (TTR 1996:106). / Although the Reform party remained as the government until 1928, Ngata had a great deal of influence, especially after Gordon Coates gained the position of native minister in 1921 and prime minister in 1925.
tūru
1. (loan) (noun) chair, stool, seat, bench, pew.
Kapi tonu ngā tūru katoa, kāti, rau atu, rau atu ngā mea i tū tonu i te kore tūru (TP 10/1909:3). / All the seats were full with hundreds and hundreds having to stand because there were no seats.
Synonyms: nōhanga, nohoanga, nohonga, pae noho, tāwhanawhana
Reeves, Paul Alfred
1. (personal name) ONZ, GCMG, GCVO, CF, QSO (1932-2011 ) Puketapu and Te Ātiawa; educated at Victoria University of Wellington and Oxford University. Bishop of Waiapu, Bishop of Auckland and Archbishop and Primate of Aotearoa/New Zealand (1980-1985). First Māori Governor-General of Aotearoa/New Zealand (1985-1990) and since then he was the Anglican Observer at the United Nations, elections observer in South Africa and Ghana and chair of the Fiji Constitution Review Commission, Commonwealth Secretary General's Special Envoy to Guyana. From 2005 until his death he was the Chancellor of the Auckland University of Technology.
Kāwharu, Ian Hugh
1. (personal name) ONZ, FRSNZ (1927-2006) Ngāti Whātua; academic and ariki. Educated at Auckland Grammar School, University of Auckland (BSc), Cambridge (MA) and Oxford (MLitt, DPhil) Universities. Became the foundation professor of Social Anthropology and Māori Studies at Massey University in 1970. Professor of Māori Studies and head of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Auckland (1985-1993). Chair of Ngāti Whātua o Ōrākei Māori Trust Board (1978-2006). Served on the Royal Commission of the Courts (1976-1978), the New Zealand Māori Council, the Board of Māori affairs (1987-1990) and the Waitangi Tribunal (1986-1996). He was a Aotearoa/New Zealand delegate to UNESCO and a consultant to the United Nations economic and Social Council and the Food and Agriculture Organization. He was also President of the Polynesian Society. Knighted in 1989 and appointed a member of the Order of New Zealand in 2002.
