Nga Tohu

In 1840 more than 500 chiefs signed the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand’s founding document. Ngā Tohu, when complete, will contain a biographical sketch of each signatory.


Signing

SignatureSheetSigned asProbable nameTribeHapūSigning Occasion
26Sheet 1 — The Waitangi SheetTauraTauraNgāpuhi?Ngāti HineBay of Islands Date unknown

Taura signed the Waitangi sheet of the Treaty of Waitangi in the Bay of Islands on an unknown date in 1840. He may have been a rangatira (chief) of the Ngāti Hine hapū (subtribe) of Ngāpuhi.

Taura was killed at Mawhekairangi. [1]


[1] T. Lindsay Buick, The Treaty of Waitangi: or, how New Zealand became a British colony, Mackay, Wellington, 1914, p. 204


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