Hānara Tangiāwhā Te Ōhakī "Arnold" Reedy (16 August 1903 – 8 April 1971) was a New Zealand tribal leader, farmer and soldier. Of

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descent, he identified with the

Ngāti Porou Ngāti Porou is a Māori iwi traditionally located in the East Cape and Gisborne regions of the North Island of New Zealand. Ngāti Porou is affiliated with the 28th Maori Battalion and has the second-largest affiliation of any iwi in New Zealand ...

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. He was born in

Whareponga Whareponga is a bay and rural community in the Gisborne District of New Zealand's North Island. It is located north of Waipiro Bay, and is the mouth of Whareponga Stream and Wharekaka Stream. The area has a rugged landscape, featuring green bus ...

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, New Zealand, on 16 August 1903. He was the eldest son of

Materoa Reedy Materoa Reedy (née Ngarimu, 1881–1944) was a New Zealand tribal leader. Of Māori descent, she identified with the Ngati Porou iwi. She was born in Maraeke, East Coast, New Zealand in 1881, the daughter of Tuta Ngarimu and Makere Rairi. ...

, née Ngarimu, and John Marshall Reedy, himself the eldest son of Thomas Tyne Reedy, an Irishman, and Mihi Takawhenua Ngawiki Tuhou. Hekia Parata is his granddaughter. He was appointed an

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, for services to the Māori people, in the 1970 Queen's Birthday Honours. He was educated at

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and

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. He was a captain in the Māori Battalion in World War II, serving alongside his cousin

Moana-Nui-a-Kiwa Ngarimu Moana-Nui-a-Kiwa Ngarimu VC (7 April 1918 – 27 March 1943) was a New Zealand soldier and posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth ...

, and returned to farming after the war. He was a foundation member of the New Zealand Maori Council for ten years, and was chairman of the Horouta Tribal Executive between 1956 and 1970. In 1949 he was a Māori member of the New Zealand delegation to the United Nations. He contested the Eastern Māori seat several times; in and (when he came second) for Social Credit and in , and the 1967 by-election for

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