Signing
Signature | Sheet | Signed as | Probable name | Tribe | Hapū | Signing Occasion |
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12 | Sheet 8 — The Cook Strait (Henry Williams) Sheet | Napuna | Mohi Ngāponga | Taranaki | Ngāti Haumia | Port Nicholson 29 April 1840 |
Mohi Ngāponga signed Te Tiriti at Port Nicholson on 29 April 1840. Details of his life are recorded in Nga Tupuna o Te Whanganui-a-Tara:
In about 1834 [Mohi] led a group of people from Waikanae to settle first at Ngauranga and then Te Aro Pā … Mohi was present at the special gathering of iwi on Matiu Somes Island before Pōmare and most of the Ngāti Mutunga left for the Chatham Islands. At that meeting he was given the areas of Te Aro and Paekawakawa (Island Bay).
Nga Tupuna o Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Vol. 1, Wellington City Council, 2001, p. 15.
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