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Horioka

1. (loan) (personal name) Holyoake - Sir Keith Holyoake (1904-1983), New Zealand statesman, prime minister 1957 and 1960-72.

I te toanga o te Rōpū Nāhinara i te pōtitanga i te tau 1949, whakatūria ana ko Kerēhi hei hēkeretari tūmataiti mā te Minita Māori, mā Te Kōpata, ā, whai i muri i a ia mā Te Horioka (TTR 2000:61). / When the National Party won the 1949 election Grace became private secretary to the minister of Māori affairs, Ernest Corbett, and later to Keith Holyoake.

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