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Pēwhairangi

1. (loan) (location) Bay of Islands.

(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 78;)

Kua hoki mai a Tā Tānara Mākarini i Pēwhairangi, i te ahiahi o te Wenerei kua hori nei, i reira e whakaoti ana i ētahi atu tohetohe tawhito a ngā Māori (TW 12/2/1875:9). / Sir Donald McLean has returned from the Bay of Islands last Wednesday afternoon, after satisfactorily arranging some long-pending Māori disputes.

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