whakapōtae
1. (verb) (-tia) to crown, cap (with a degree), graduate.
Rere ana te whiu a Rātana i a Te Tāite he mea nōna kei te whai kē a Rātana ki te whakapōtae i a ia hei kīngi mō Aotearoa (TTR 1998:204). / Rātana accused Te Tāite of saying that he, Rātana, wanted to crown himself king of New Zealand.
2. (modifier) crowning, graduating, capping.
He rā whakapōtae tēnei ki Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi (Te Ara 2014). / This is a graduation day at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi.
whakapōtaetanga
1. (noun) crowning, capping, graduation.
Ahakoa anō te whakapaipai o ngā kōrero i whakatakotoria mōna, karekau tonu ia i kite me whakahōnore rawa, engari i te taenga ki te pō whakapōtaetanga, i āhua puta anō tōna ngākau whakahīhī (EM 2002:233). / Despite how nice the statements made about him were, he could not see why he should be honoured, but when the capping night arrived, it became apparent how proud he was.
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.
Ngata, Apirana Turupa
1. (personal name) (1874-1950) Ngāti Porou; national leader, land reformer, politician and scholar. Educated at Waiomatatini Native School, Te Aute College and Canterbury College, Ngata graduated with a BA, an MA and LLB. First Māori to complete a degree at a New Zealand university. Knighted in 1927.
(Te Kākano Study Guide (Ed. 1): 38; Te Kōhure Textbook (Ed. 2): 20;)
Mataira, Kāterina Te Heikōkō
1. (personal name) (1932-2011 ) Ngāti Porou; teacher, author of books written in Māori, and co-founder, with Ngoingoi Pēwhairangi, of Te Ātārangi, a method of teaching adults Māori in their communities. Kāterina was a graduate of Victoria University of Wellington, Massey University and The University of Waikato from which she was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1996. Awarded CNZOM in 1998. In 2001 she was awarded Te Tohu Tiketike a Te Waka Toi/Te Waka Toi Exemplary Award and in 2007 the Storylines Betty Gilderdale Award for her writing in Māori. In 2008 she received the third Pou Aronui Award from the New Zealand Academy of the Humanities for distinguished service to the humanities. Shortly before her death she was to awarded a damehood (DNZM).
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.
Mead, Hirini Moko
1. Ngāti Awa; carver, writer, professor and leader of Ngāti Awa. Educated at Te Teko, St Stephen's School, Te Aute, University of Auckland and the University of Southern Illinois from which he graduated with a PhD. Lecturer at the University of Auckland and then founding Professor of Māori at Victoria University of Wellington. Establish Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi at Whakatāne. Chief negotiator for the Ngāti Awa claims settled in 2005. He was appointed to the Waitangi Tribunal in 2003.
