Signing
Signature | Sheet | Signed as | Probable name | Tribe | Hapū | Signing Occasion |
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194 | Sheet 1 — The Waitangi Sheet | Hohepa Poutama | Hōhepa Poutama | Kaitāia 28 April 1840 |
Hōhepa Poutama signed the Treaty of Waitangi on 28 April 1840 at Kaitāia.
He was appointed as a land assessor in 1850.
Hōhepa Poutama died on 14 May 1876 at the age of 75. A death notice in Te Waka Maori o Niu Tirani noted that he ‘had been an assessor for many years, and was very attentive and painstaking in the discharge of the duties of his office.’ [1]
[1] Te Waka Maori o Niu Tirani, 30 May 1876, p. 1
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