Rangiwaea. Te Waharoa was on Motuhoa in 1836 when he took ill and was then carried back to Matamata Pa where he died. His son Wiremu Tamihana Tarapipipi maintained the alliance with Tauranga Moana until his death in 1866.15
Mackay had earlier agreed to make other reserves for Ngati Haua, although they received no payment for the sale of the land. Mackay explained the Ngati Haua claims as follows in 1867:
The Ngatihaua tribe represented by both loyal and rebel natives, only succeeded in making out claims to a piece of land about four hundred acres at Omokoroa, and also fifty acres at Purakaunui. (Memo. Another reserve of about eight acres was afterwards made … 8 acres Huharua Reserve.) It appeared that at one time they had been entitled to occupy more land on account of the aid rendered to the Ngaiterangi by Te Waharoa (the father of William Thompson) in their wars with the Arawa and Thames tribes, but the Ngatihaua had given up all claims to these at a great meeting held some years ago at Ohuki, Tauranga. The pieces at Omokoroa and Purakaunui were reserved for them, this was however, much against the wish of the Ngaiterangi, who would rather have seen them receive cash compensation.
It was evident that the Ngatihaua had no claim either through ancestry or conquest; but merely from being allowed to occupy for the reason above stated. Te Waharoa had asked for permission to do so in order to be near a port where he could obtain supplies of gunpowder from trading vessels.16
The reserves made at Huharua were set aside after approaches from Ngati Tokotoko, regarding their rights, and those of Ngati Haua to land in the area. Stokes gives the following account of Ngati Tokotoko and their relationship with Pirirakau and Ngati Haua:
The Ngati Tokotoko and Ngati Hinerangi tribes occupied the Okauia area east of the Waihou River and into the Kaimai Ranges. They were a remant of Ngamarama who had been pushed eastward by the expansion of Ngati Raukawa and Ngait Haua, both of Tainui waka. They had close kin relationships with Pirirakau and Ngati Haua. Some of their ancestors were also among the Ngamarama who were dispossessed by Ngati Ranginui arrival in the lower Wairoa. However, many generations of intermarriage have made these kin relationships difficult to unravel. In the 1860s, Ngati Tokotoko and Ngati Hinerangi … maintained small settlements on the Tauranga side of the ranges. The Raukawa people were mainly in the lower Wairoa Valley; Ngati Tokotoko and others at Te Puna.17
In November 1866 Mackay decided to reserve land for Ngati Haua at Huharua after being told by Ngati Tokotoko that Wiremu Tamihana had claims to the area:
I visited Te Puna and some natives of the Ngatitokotoko hapu pointed out a piece of land at Huharua within the township surveyed by Capt Heale, about forty chains in length and two in width, or about eight acres, which they said William Thompson had formerly occupied. The Ngatihaua when present at the meeting in July 1866, never mentioned this piece, or made the slightest allusion to it. I however considered it expedient to reserve it and informed them it should be set apart. It appeared that
15 Stokes, 1990, p 171
16 James Mackay Jr ‘Report on the Katikati Purchase and other questions relating to the District of Tauranga, 1867’, in Stokes, 1992, p 109
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