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    Rangiaowhia (or Rangiawhia, or Rangiaohia) was, for over 20 years, a thriving village on a ridge between two streams in the Waikato region, about 4 km...
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    village, the assault on Rangiaowhia was an almost "incomprehensible act of savagery". The role of Bishop Selwyn in the Rangiaowhia attack is unclear. He...
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    Maungakawa, Maungatautari, Mohoaonui, Otawhao, Patetere, Rangataiki, Rangiaowhia, Taupō, Te Kopua, Te Rore, Tireke, Tuakau, Waitetuna, Whaingaroa and...
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    defeat at the Battle of Rangiriri and war crimes at the trading centre of Rangiaowhia, Tāwhiao led the exodus of Tainui to the land of Ngāti Maniapoto, establishing...
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    Parewaeono, and the Waikato Tainui hapū of Ngāti Ngutu and Ngāti Paretekawa. Rangiaowhia, or Rangiaohia Highway Board administered the roads in the town until...
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  • 1868 Poverty Bay, Gisborne 54 Part of Te Kooti's War Rangiaowhia massacre 21 February 1864 Rangiaowhia, Waikato 11 Part of the Waikato War Gilfillan family...
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    moved out with at least 700 heading for Rangiaowhia. Reaching an old pā site at Hairini, on the road to Rangiaowhia, the Māori began entrenching themselves...
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    Waipa county in 1876: Newcastle, Hamilton, Mangapiko North and South, Rangiaowhia, and Pukekura. In 1902, it covered 282 sq mi (730 km2) and had an additional...
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    attack mounted on 21 February 1864 by government forces on the village of Rangiaowhia near Te Awamutu in 1864. His sister was killed in defence of nearby Hairini...
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    was designed to block the main approaches to the agriculturally rich Rangiaowhia district, east of Te Awamutu. On 20 February 1864, Cameron by-passed...
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    than any other engagement of the New Zealand Wars—and the attack on Rangiaowhia (February 1864) a village largely occupied by women, children and older...
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    Invasion of Waikato, being present at Rangiriri, Waiari, Paterangi, Rangiaowhia, and at the siege and capture of Ōrākau. For his services during this...
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    reach food-producing villages like Rangiaowhia. Guided by local Māori friendly to the British, the force raided Rangiaowhia in February 1864, prompting the...
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    975 354 Rotoorangi 1,935 682 Te Rahu 900 330 Kihikihi Flat 798 291 see Rangiaowhia Allen Road 204 72 Rotongata 816 291 Te Awamutu West 1,305 474 Te Awamutu...
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    from wounds received in an attack earlier in the year on a village at Rangiaowhia. He was also a Member of Parliament, representing the largely rural electorate...
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  • Taranaki. Kereopa had lost his family in the bloody British raid on Rangiaowhia the previous year and blamed much of the massacre of women and children...
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    served in the Invasion of the Waikato, seeing action at the battles of Rangiaowhia and Hairini. He was promoted to captain in 1864. Following the end of...
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  • Zealand electrical engineer, inventor and local politician. He was born in Rangiaowhia, Waikato, New Zealand, on 3 October 1888. He is credited with nine hydroelectric...
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    settlers when, in 1864, his troops attacked the unfortified village of Rangiaōwhia, home to elderly men, women and children, and set fire to the church...
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    all who resided within, including the sorcerer there. Kāhukura visits Rangiaowhia; along the road, he finds a lot of mackerel on the side of the road,...
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    forces, and his involvement in the burning of women and children at Rangiaowhia in 1864, damaged his and the church's relationship with Māori, which...
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  • the Waipapa is contested. Various accounts place the landing point at Rangiaowhia, Taipa, Oruru, or Karikari Peninsula. The captain asked his crew to take...
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    Hillsborough area near the Manukau Harbour was traditionally referred to as Rangiaowhia, the name of a settlement and waka landing site south of Onehunga High...
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    settler families at Matawhero or the deliberate burning down of a whare at Rangiaowhia while several Māori were inside". Another review noted the importance...
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  • Catholic mission was established nearby, but by 1844 it had moved to Rangiaowhia. In 1865, Josiah Firth began buying up land in the surrounding area from...
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    Matamata, Ōpōtiki, Maketu, Auckland, Otago, Wellington, Ōtaki, Rotorua, Rangiaowhia and Whakatāne. The mission station in Kororareka encompassed the area...
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  • the New Zealand wars. The students had visited battle sites, including Rangiaowhia, in 2014 and talked with kaumātua who often had stories of cruelty to...
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    times, and for New Zealand 39—both large numbers for the time. Born at Rangiaowhia, near Te Awamutu, on 8 July 1874, Cunningham was the son of Hera (Sarah)...
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  • the militia during the Invasion of the Waikato; killed in action at Rangiaowhia William Odgers VC - first man to win the Victoria Cross in the New Zealand...
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