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Old Maori Place Names Round Akaroa Harbour OLD MAORI PLAC NAMB ROUND AKAROA HARBOUR BY THE LATE LOUIS ]. VANGIONI, M.B.E., WITH SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES BY D. ]. C. PRINGLE -_.------------_._._-----_._-- Old 'Hnori PlncEl Nal'!lea round l..KARotl. HiJ.RBOUR, as told to o. the Staff. Barrys Bay_~ or TaraoutC'. Urnu To Rehua French Farm (The oven of Te Rehua) Te Rautnhi Takamatuc Bay (Rest nfter a Journey) Orukuw <:1. =Diving water Otipua Childrens Bay Otahunhua (eggs) Okoropcke = ot['.hukokn~ (Burn dry flaX) ~~kO Creek Opukutuhi ..... 1C.i-iti·\-;"'- ..-------- tream \"-. tutoreingT~kl ~ ~ \~ WAINUI tore~!:''''''' Green P .~lpirnu TanGutn- uu ukapuneke "~trel1n ~ ~ti Knknhn Red House -y I ~ Te Ul!lU I ~aki Nsamotaurun • Cape I Three 0- Points Hinep knrarilti Pipi Ke,retu wr1:IE..J{AIK Creek onu~~~woman cooked in the aUl!lataki broilinG sun) To Lhlterai Kop~ Te:rehU'''- (1 I Dan .,. T 5 thouse JOtuhaeknr:n or tThe Lon; Boat Rock ____________. __..._. -J PAGE I OLD MAORI PLACE NAMES ROUND name, Te Hall. was the grandfather AKAROA HARBOUR of Aperahama Te Allr:B. who fought against the Npti-Ttoa at Kaiapohia in 1828, when Te Rauparaha's uncle, by the late LouIs J. VBIIIicmJ, KAlTUNA is the of another name Te Pehi, a.nd seven other northern M.B.E., with supplemeatary DOtes o6mall creek running Barry's Bay. into chiefs were ldlled.-D.J.C.P. by D. J. C. PrIngle. ("kai" food; "tuna" eel.) Kaituna is also the old name given to the Head Ona.we was the la.st occupied Maori (By questioning the older generation of Ba.rry's BelV, near the present cheese fortress on the peninsula and was the of the local Maori people some 50-60 !Bctory. scene of a great battle between the years ago the late Louis J. Vangioni local M'8oris and Te Raupa.ra.ba a.nd elicited ma.rv original Maori place­ KAIWAITAU is the old Maori name his warriors from Kapitl in 1832. This names. Some of this information I had of the land in the middle of the bay. was the culmination of several south­ in recent years passed on to certain In the ea.rly days this part was thickly ern raJ.dB by this northern wa.rrior interested scbooJboys, using an improv­ covered with cabbage trees, right down chief. Ised map to supplement the notes. to the water's edge. Waitau w&s the In 1828, to punish the chief Rere­ The unearthing of a. bundle of print­ name of· the food the Maoris got from the heart of the CIIlIbbage tree. Another waka of Kaikoura for boe.sting tha.t if er's proofs of UIlk.nown date by the Te Ra.uparaha ventured any fa.rther present Editor of the "Akaroa. Mail" food called Kauru was made from the younger branches which were cut in south he would rip opan his stoma.ch reveeJs tbat Ill' VangioDi at ODe time with a ba.rraoouta tooth, the northern . wrote a series of articles for this paper, lengths of about two 1Ieet, stripped of bark a.nd wood, the flbres inside tied chief nmde a sudden ra1d a.nd va.n­ and included, many more naJD8Il than qulshed tbe days later, in bund!les, and cooked in the Maori boaster. Ten 1 could have ~ OD the map. two-thirds his ovens. w&s of their principal and after sending of As some of the names on the short This one force back to Kapiti with prisoners, Te foods. list had no English trllM1atlon I asked Rl9.Upa.ra.ha moved on Kaiapohia is to the Rev. Klng1 Ihaka, MJaor:l Pastor of ONAWE the name ot the pear­ (KBiapoi) . the WeJ.lington Anglican Diocese and shaped peniDsula at the head of Aka­ At first he attempted to allay t.~e well-known radio speaker on Maori­ roo Harbour, between Barry's Bay a.nd Bead of the Bay <Duvauchelle). It is suspicions of his hosts and pretended ta.nga to comment, and he kindly did to t:e friendly, but the contemptuous BO.-D. J. C. Pringle.) about 60 a.cres in area.. Mr Vangicml wrote: "The name Ooawe means behaviour of his uncle, Te Pehi. pre­ 'covered with sores or scars.' I don't cipitated a. fight in whioh the la.tter know whether it is &0 named on a.nd seven other northern chief were a.ccount of the many fights there, or killed. Te Raupe.-raha retreated' to Kapiti with the survivors. Many little bays and points round because of the grea.t boulders that cover the northern portion u1 the Aka.roa. ha.rbour have descriptive and Two years later, with the assistance pen1nsula." historic tha.t perpetuate of the infamous Captain Stewart and names some (Rev. KingI. Iha.ka comments:­ incident or custom well known to the his brig, the "F-liza.beth" he salled to While early Maori inhabitants of Banks Ona.we: the literal translation Aka.roa, captured the paramount chief Peninsula. In some cases the original of this is "your scars" it could also Te-ma.i-bara-nul, who had been 9t mea.n of course "belonging to Nawe:' Maori names have been supplanted by Kaiapohia., and who lived at Taka­ -NaWe w&s perhaps a. local chief.) European terms, a.nd in others, with punek:e (now Red Bouse Bay), sacked A. W. Reed translates Onawe as the passing on of the older Ma.oris, who his pa., and returned triumphantly to liVed· during the exciting times of the "The pla.ce set on 'flre."-D.J.C.P. Kapitt. ea.rly 19th century, they have just been In 1831 he S9.iJed south ODJCe more forgotten. TE PA NUl 0 BAU is the highest and invested Kaiapohia, capturing it Let us begin where the road from point on Onawe pen1nsula. ("pa" afller six months. Flugitives warned the Hill Top dips down to Barry's B~. house; "nul" great; "0" belonging to; Altaroa. Maoris who ftocked to their "hau" wind). The meaning of the fortress on Onawe. TARAOUTA is the old Maori ne.me ne.me ha.s been given &S "the great, or chief, home of the spirit of the wind," A deep trench had been dU~ a.round of Barry's Bay. (No translation given. the place selected and strong palisad­ In: ''']JIr:akohe,'' "tara" means thorn.­ prompted probably by the mooDing of a strong southerly through the pilla.r­ ing erected on the bJnk made from D.J.Q.P.). It also means tern and other thO! excavated earth. All round the sea. birds. like boulders on the apex. (Rev. Kingi IhAka writes: "Te Pa inside of the palisading was a covered Nui 0 Hau-It is always easy to give way for the protection of the defend­ IBUTU ("ibu" nose, "tu" stmight) is a literal translation to.a Maori place ers. A covered trench led to a sorinl!', the name of the point near Barry's name. I would suggest ... 'The great and large ca.noes dra"oged into the pa Bay wharf. pa of Ban, a chief.' Hau is a well­ w.ere fllled with water and covered known Maori name for a chief Who, with matting to prevent evaporation. TE WAIRORI is the name of the according to various stories, was a Early one morning in 1832 sentinels main creek in Barry's Bay. The old great navigator,") a,t the lookout at Op!lkia ("Brough's Maori road or creek to Walrewia w&s This is -a truly interesting suggestion. Bay) observed a fleet of war canoes up the gully alongside this creek. paddling up the harbour. FaUin'.{ t{) Hence the name "Wairori," which' In his article No. XLII on "The south­ ern Maori," published in "The otago surorise- the defenders Te Rauparaha means road by the creek. ("wai" water; landled his Ngati-Toa warriors near "rori" roa.d). Witness," Ma.rch 24, 1931, Berries Beat­ tie writes of a fa.mous Ngai Tabu war­ where the short wharf in B ..rry's Bav (Rev. Jdmri Ihaka. has an interest­ rior chief, Toe Hau-Tapu-o-Tu, mean­ was afterwards built while the Nl?ati­ ing c~t:-"I doubt whether 'rori' ing "The sacred wind of Tu, the god Awa la.nded further east. A dense bush here means road. If this is an ancient of wa.r," who w&s the great-~nd­ and swampy ground separated the (pre-European) name then 'rori' woUld father of Tuhawaiki, commonly known partl?S, who Prepl[U'ed to cook food. not mean road, &S this is but a coined as "Bloody Jack," a famous otago Tangatah!lra, who had killed Te word for road. I would suggest that chief, and contemporary of Taiaroa Pehi at Kaia.pohia, was in command 'Wairori' means 'the staggering waters' aDd 'I1angata.hara. Reckoning 25 year~ of the Akaroa Ma.oris. Hoping to over­ in the sense that they do not flow to a Maori genera.tlon, Te Han would come the Nga.ti-AWa by a sudden easily, perhaps because of rocks and have been born &bout 1725. attack he led the party of warriors debris.") Another Ngai Tabu chief with the down the oauseway. PAGE 2 OLD MAORI PLACE NAMES ROUND AKAROA HARBOUR Ngati-Awa sentries in the wood A.ceording to S. Percy Bmith, author of ROBINSON'S BAY derives ita name obeet ved b1m; gave the aJann and "Ha.wa1ld, the whenae of :the Maori," from Obarles Ba.rrington Robinson, one ca1led for help to the Ngati-Toa who they took their name from Tahu­ of the two magistrates sent by Cup- strugled acroB8 the muddy beach, fIr­ potiki, a descendant of one of the crew .
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