Name Hone Ngapua | Role Member of Parliament | |
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Died February 9, 1909, Wellington, New Zealand | ||
Hone Heke Ngapuha (6 June 1869 – 9 February 1909) was a Māori and Liberal Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand. He was born in Kaikohe, and was named after his great-uncle Hōne Heke.
Biography
Ngapua was born on 6 June 1869 at Kaikohe, the eldest child of Niurangi Puriri and Hone Ngapua. His paternal grandfather was Tuhirangi, the elder brother of Hōne Heke Pokai.
He won the Northern Maori electorate in 1893, with the support of Kotahitanga. He was adjudged bankrupt and vacated the seat on 29 October 1900. However, he was re-elected to the seat in a by-election on 9 January 1901 (as Joseph Ward was in 1897). He died in Wellington of tuberculosis at only 40 while an MP in 1909.
He was influential in the development of the Young Maori Party, and helped defuse the conflict of the Dog Tax War of 1897. He introduced a Native Rights Bill, some of which was incorporated into legislation passed in 1900.