Paratene Waiora (or possibly Kowaiora) signed the Treaty of Waitangi on 28 April 1840 at Kaitāia.
He gave the last speech before Nōpera Pana-kareao closed proceedings: ‘There is only one great man who cannot be killed, that is the tongue; it often stirs up great wars. My father, Nopera, was sitting in his house reading his Bible when they said he was gone to the north to kill the people. I say send away Pikopo [Bishop Pompallier]. Send him back; he is the cause of strife amongst us.’ [1]
[1] Quoted in T. Lindsay Buick, The Treaty of Waitangi: or, how New Zealand became a British colony, Mackay, Wellington, 1914, p. 149