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Howard Kevin (Howie) Tamati, MBE, is a New Zealand former professional rugby league footballer and coach who played for his country. He is the cousin of fellow international Kevin Tamati.
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- Howie tamati gearing up to win te tai hauauru for maori party
- Team howie tamati waiata tuku iho
- Playing career
- Coaching career
- Administrative career
- Political career
- Personal life
- Honours and awards
- References
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Playing career
Tamati played for the Waitara Bears and represented Taranaki locally before selected for the Kiwis in 1979. Tamati played a total of 50 games for the Kiwis, including 24 tests for them between 1979 and 1985.
Tamati played for Wigan between 1983 and 1984. He played against his cousin in the final of the 1984 Challenge Cup.
Coaching career
Tamati began his coaching career with the Wellington side. He then coached the New Zealand side for two years from 1992. He was replaced in 1994 by Frank Endacott.
Tamati coached the Taranaki Rockets in the 1996 Lion Red Cup and the 1997 Super League Challenge Cup.
In 1997 he was appointed the coach of the Oceania Nines Fiji national team.
Since 2007 he has been the convener of the New Zealand Kiwis selectors.
Administrative career
Tamati currently serves as the Chairman of the New Zealand Māori Rugby League starting in 2004.
Tamati has been the CEO of Sport Taranaki since 1994. In 2013 he was appointed the president of the New Zealand Rugby League.
Political career
Tamati served three terms as a New Plymouth District Councillor from 1999 to 2007. He was re-elected as a councillor in October 2010. He is the former chairman of Te Ihi Tu Maori Prisoner Habilitation Centre in New Plymouth.
In 2016 he announced he would not seek re-election to the council in 2015 and won the Māori Party nomination for the Te Tai Hauāuru electorate in the 2017 New Zealand general election.
Personal life
Tamati is the cousin of Kevin Tamati. He is of Te Atiawa, Ngāti Mutunga and Ngai Tahu heritage. Tamati and Joanne Smith had children Ebony, Erina, James. He is married to Aroaro and had four children: Moerangi Te Wai, Hawaiki and Erana. Tamati has five grandchildren, Takarangi, Rihari, Jahnikka Hine-maire, Rongomai and Rangiwahia Sampson.
Honours and awards
Tamati was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1994 New Year Honours for services to rugby league.
Tamati was selected as the patron of New Zealand Police recruitment wing 245 in 2007.
In 2008 he was named in the Taranaki Rugby League Team of the Century.