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Rangatira o Te Rarawa

Nopera Panakareao

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Nopera; and Ereonora at Te Ahu, Kaitaia. The child is probably their
daughter Wharo, who later married Irishman John Harding and lived at
Whangape.

Ereonora Kaimanu was the granddaughter of renowned Rangatira Papahia,
she was the first of three women permitted to sign te Tiriti O Waitangi.

Nopera or Noble was the son of Te Kaaka Kutukutu whose brother Tuperere
signed the sale of land documents for the Kaitaia Mission Station. Nopera’s
great, great grandfather was the first chief ever to visit a foreign sailing ship,
probably around 1772 aboard the French vessel Mascarin in the Bay of
Islands. Nopera was also a signatory to the Declaration of Independence
1835.

Nopera’s; grandmother Moiria is a sister of Ngamotu grandmother of Te Ripi;
Rangatira o Pukepoto and Ahipara.