Tūrongo
1. (personal name) an important ancestor of the Tainui people who married Māhinārangi, a puhi from the East coast tribes.
(Te Māhuri Textbook (Ed. 2): 117-120;)
I te hononga o Tūrongo rāua ko Māhinārangi ka hono hoki ngā tātai nunui o te Tai Rāwhiti ki ngā tātai o ngā iwi o Tainui (NIT 1995:73). / When Tūrongo and Māhinārangi married they united the chiefly lineages of the East Coast with those of the Tainui tribes.
