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Moutoa Island
Moutoa Island, on the Whanganui River.
In the early 1860s upriver Maori adopted the Pai Marire (Hauhau) faith. In May 1864 Matene Te Rangitauira of Taumarunui led an upriver party to attack Wanganui township. The Putiki chiefs Hori Kingi Te Anaua and Hoani Wiremu Hipango refused their upriver cousins passage and inflicted a heavy defeat on them at Moutoa, a small island on the Whanganui River between Hiruharama (Jerusalem) and Ranana.
Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: 1/2-075310-F
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