Pukuohäkoma occupied a pä on the Tauranga side called Te Mangatawa. The western portion of Te Mangatawa was settled by Pukuohakoma, and the descendants of Kümaramaoa. His other main pä was Ongaraho at Te Puke, another portion of the Te Puke block closely associated with Te Pukuohäkoma is Te Puata. This was once the pä of Hataki, Iwikorokë’s wife.

20. The vocal leaders of the hapü in the 19^th century were people like Ïhaka Te Hiwi, Wi Wärena Mokopapaki who laid down the boundaries as follows. These boundaries include Ngäti Pükenga and Ngäti Te Pukuohäkoma interests:

Rangataua: Commences on the West and goes on to Matata and Ohara, thence up to Whaowhina and goes on to Otukopiri then goes along in the river to the south side of the Waitao, thence up to Ringiringitewai and goes on to Te Rahinahina, thence through (the?) bush to Herepi, thence to Te ….iriatematau, and again turns through the bush to Pukewharangi thence up to Te Tuahuateatua and goes down to Otara, Te Puata and into the Raparapaahoe river… then turns towards the East and goes along that river to Hororoa, Motungarara, Takapurauhue, Te Roto and Te Totara, turns again and goes on to Te Kaingapakura, Ohoe and into the sea, where the Eastern Boundary ends. Commences again on the West and goes to Omatata, Karikari, Pukepoto, Waikotokoto, Ruakirikiri, Oera (Orea?), and into the sea whence the Western boundary ends.

21 . Pukuohäkoma’s lands straddle the confiscation boundary, with the majority of the lands being on the Tauranga side of Ötawa. These were lost to confiscation. The confiscation boundary itself roughly follows a Ngäti Te Pukuohäkoma boundary, from ‘Ötara to Wairäkei’.

22. Te Kou-o-Rehua, a chief of Ngäti Te Pukuohäkoma and Te Tawera (Ngäti Pükenga), sent one of the original petitions to the government of the day in 1864 on behalf of Waitaha protesting against the sale of their lands by Ngäai Te Rangi in Tauranga. It can reasonably be assumed that the petition was on behalf of the wider Waitaha tribe, and also refers to his own hapü interests. Therefore, the Waitaha hapü to suffer significant losses in Tauianga Moana, was indeed Ngäti Te Pukuohäkoma.

23. After the Te Tumu fight when war ceased between Te Atawa and Ngäi Te Rangi, the boundary was set by Ngäti Whakaue and Ngäi Te Rangi at the Wairäkei stream, on the lands of Ngäti Te Pukuohäkoma. This boundary was set due to the killing of Hikareia Ruamoana by Te Ipututu Tatakawa, father of Takaanui Tatakawa at Te Houhou, the area becoming tapu as a result, hence the boundary being set at there.

Ngäti Te Pukuohäkoma — Te Puke Interests

24. After the Battles of Gate Pä and Te Ranga in 1864, and the subsequent imposition of the New Zealand Settlements Act, Ngäti Te Pukuohäkoma lost all of their lands in Tauranga for the so called rebellion of Hakaraia, and despite avowed loyalty to the Crown by some of its leading members.