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Taite Te Tomo
Māori politician and Member of Parliament / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Taite Te Tomo (1871 or 1872 – 22 May 1939) was a Māori and Reform Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand.
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Years | Term | Electorate | Party | ||
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1930–1931 | 23rd | Western Maori | Reform | ||
1931–1935 | 24th | Western Maori | Reform |
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Te Tomo was probably born in 1871 or 1872 near Ōtaki.[1]
He won the Western Maori electorate in a 1930 by-election after the death of Māui Pōmare, but lost it in 1935 to the Ratana candidate Toko Ratana.[2]
In 1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.[3]
He was a member of the Ngāti Tūwharetoa tribe, and of the Board of Ethnological Research. He died at Kākāriki Pā on 22 May 1939.[4]