Mangakāhia, Meri Te Tai
1. (personal name) (1868-1920) Te Rarawa; woman of mana and a suffragist who argued in 1893 for women to have the right to participate in the Māori Parliament, Te Kotahitanga.
Nō te 18 o Mei 1893 ka whakaarahia e te kaiwhakahaere o te whare o raro o te Pāremata o te Kotahitanga he mōtini nā Meri Mangakāhia, e tono ana kia whakaaetia te whare kia whakamana i ngā wāhine ki te pōti mema mō rātou ki te Pāremata Māori (TTR 1994:54). / On 18 May 1893 the Speaker of the lower house of the Kotahitanga parliament introduced a motion by Meri Mangakāhia, requesting that women be given the right to vote for members to the Māori Parliament.
