Name Taite Tomo Died 1939 | Role Member of Parliament | |
Taite Te Tomo (1883 – 22 May 1939) was a Maori and Reform Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand.
He won the Western Maori electorate in a 1930 by-election after the death of Maui Pomare, but lost it in 1935 to the Ratana candidate Haami Tokouru Ratana.
In 1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.
He was a member of the Ngati Tuwharetoa tribe, and of the Board of Ethnological Research. He died at Kakariki Pa on 22 May 1939.
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