Tūreiti Te Heuheu Tūkino V ( – 1 June 1921) was a notable New Zealand tribal leader and politician. Of

Māori Māori or Maori can refer to: Relating to the Māori people * Māori people of New Zealand, or members of that group * Māori language, the language of the Māori people of New Zealand * Māori culture * Cook Islanders, the Māori people of the C ...

descent, he identified with the Ngāti Tūwharetoa

iwi Iwi () are the largest social units in New Zealand Māori society. In Māori roughly means "people" or "nation", and is often translated as "tribe", or "a confederation of tribes". The word is both singular and plural in the Māori language, an ...

, and was the son of

Te Heuheu Tūkino IV Horonuku Te Heuheu Tukino IV (1821–1888), also known as Patātai (also spelt Patatai or Pataatai), was paramount chief of Ngāti Tūwharetoa, a Māori tribe of the central North Island of New Zealand. His birth name was Patātai; he assumed t ...

. He was born in Waihi, New Zealand in about 1865. He was appointed to the Legislative Council on 7 May 1918. He served until his death. He unsuccessfully contested the in the electorate against

Wi Pere Wiremu "Wi" Pere (7 March 1837 – 9 December 1915), was a Māori Member of Parliament in New Zealand. He represented Eastern Māori in the House of Representatives from 1884 to 1887, and again from 1893 to 1905. Pere's strong criticism of th ...

, and unsuccessfully stood in the electorate in , , , and .

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