Te Puke Te Ao (1834 – 28 October 1886) was a 19th-century

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member of the

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. Te Ao was a chief of the

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tribe. Early in his life, he was converted by missionaries. Te Ao was a sheep farmer at Ōtaki on the

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. He represented the

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electorate from

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when he defeated

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, to 1886 when he died. He was related to

Ropata Te Ao Ropata Te Ao (died 23 April 1908) was a nineteenth-century Māori member of the House of Representatives. His father was Te Aotuta-hanga and his mother was Te Raute. Te Ao was an elder of the Ngāti Raukawa tribe and lived in Ōtaki on the K� ...

, who represented the Western Maori electorate from to 1896.

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