Taumarunui

Taumarunui is a small town in the King Country of the central North Island of New Zealand.
Tainui Canoe
In the ancient land of Hawaiki, a great ocean voyaging canoe was fashioned from a great tree that grew at the burial site of an infant child who sadly did not survive childbirth. Tainui was the name given to that child and eventually to the canoe that brought our ancestor to Aotearoa.
Led by the chief Hoturoa, the Tainui waka was one of the migratory canoes that voyaged from Hawaiki across the Pacific Ocean to Aotearoa over 800 years ago.
Landfall was made in Whangaparaoa. After extensive exploration of the new found land the Tainui canoe and its people arrived at Kawhia where she lies buried at her final resting place at Te Akau Maketu.
Rereahu
Rereahu is a direct descendant of Hoturoa, the captain of the Tainui canoe which voyaged from Hawaiki to Aotearoa (New Zealand) over 800 years ago.
He was born, the eldest son of Raukawa and Turongoihi. Rereahu was a man of peace. His younger siblings were Takihiku, Whakatere and Kurawari.
As a young man Rereahu went off to find adventure and a wife. At Taumarunui, Rereahu met and settled down with Rangianewa. They made a home at Okahukura and had a child who they named Te Ihinga-a-rangi. They then moved north to the village of Tihikoreoreo not far from the present town of Waimiha.
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