Te Heuheu Tukino V1 Hoani 1897 1925 Waikato Nz

edmondsallan - Good morning - I am continuing with journals on the
" Te Heuheu " ancestry this morning . Many many " Kiwi's " in the Waikato / Kingcountry / Bay of Plenty / Australia are related to this family tree.Many with european names . I am hoping these journals on their family ancestry may assist many to form a base for knowledge on their whakapa's to be handed on to their mokopapa's in the future . In doing so it could assist our people's to become as one , " Kiwi's "
Te Heuheu Tukino VI, Hoani.Ngati Tuwharetoa leader, trust board chairman
Hoani Te Heuheu Tukino, sometimes known as Hoani Te Rerehau or John Heuheu, was the youngest of five children of Tureiti Te Heuheu Tukino V of Ngati Tuwharetoa and his wife, Te Rerehau Kahotea (also known as Mere Te Iwa Te Rerehau). The principal hapu of the Te Heuheu line was Ngati Turumakina, based at Waihi and Tokaanu at the southern end of Lake Taupo. Hoani Te Heuheu was related to other southern hapu of Ngati Tuwharetoa, and through his mother had kin links to northern hapu, and to Ngati Maniapoto and Ngati Raukawa.

Hoani was born on 25 October 1897 at Waihi. The family were strong supporters of the Catholic mission, and it is likely that he received his primary education at the convent school there. If Hoani had secondary education there is little evidence; later in life he was described as ‘fairly versed’ in English, but his official letters were written in Maori.

Hoani Te Heuheu's youth was spent in the shadow of his father, one of the most prominent Maori political figures of his day. His elder brother, Hepi Kahotea, was expected to succeed Tureiti, but died during the influenza epidemic of 1918. When Tureiti died in June 1921, Hoani, still in his early 20s, succeeded to his father’s title and status. On 24 December 1922 he married Raukawa Maniapoto, daughter of Te Maniapoto and Wakahuia of Taupo, in the Catholic church at Waihi. The couple were to have six children.

Hoani Te Heuheu was soon thrust into a leading role in the complex situation then facing Ngati Tuwharetoa. In his father's time, an agreement had been entered into with the Tongariro Timber Company granting cutting rights over much of the timber lands between Lake Taupo and Taumarunui. This was on condition that the company constructed a railway and paid the owners substantial royalties. The agreement was later modified by both parties. The Tongariro Timber Company then entered into an agreement with the Egmont Box Company, which was to finance the railway. This agreement permitted delayed royalties for Ngati Tuwharetoa owners of the land. The changes were validated by legislation, and the new agreement was endorsed by Tureiti in 1919. The timber company was often in arrears with its payments, although up to 1926 the owners did receive substantial if irregular sums. However, by 1929 the company was substantially in debt to Hoani’s people. The decline of the income from royalties and increasing difficulties with the two companies led to demands that the agreements be cancelled and the owners be permitted to recover their lands. Because of the fluctuations in their incomes, Hoani Te Heuheu and his people tended to depend on store credit for those of their needs that could not be supplied by farming.

At the same time, questions were being raised by irate Pakeha and foreign anglers about the right of Hoani's people to derive income from selling fishing rights for trout. Especially in the Tongariro and Waitahanui rivers, substantial income was derived by local hapu and individual landowners by charging for the right of passage over their lands. In 1924, pending negotiations with Ngati Tuwharetoa, sales of land blocks around the lake and bordering the principal fishing rivers were prohibited other than to the Crown. The Te Heuheu family and their close relatives, the Grace family, were among the largest owners, and Hoani asked through a representative for removal of this prohibition over his lands at Tauranga-Taupo.

Negotiations over the fishing rights were to have begun in February 1925, but were postponed. That year was very difficult for Hoani; protest meetings were held at the northern end of the lake at Tapuaeharuru and Mokai; the many independent hapu there alleged that the Waihi--Tokaanu people had already come to an agreement with the government favouring themselves. Another bone of contention was the sale by Hoani Te Heuheu and other Waihi people of the Tongariro fishing rights to Robert Jones, the storekeeper Hoani patronised. A petition demanded that the northern hapu be represented at any meeting concerning Taupo waters, and that the meeting be at Taupo and not at Tokaanu. In my research I found that when I was looking into these different family trees , I needed to have a very big understanding of their inherited problems .This doesn't seem to change , no matter what race of people's we come from . Till we meet again - Regards -edmondsallan