Hinemihi (Ngāti Maniapoto)
Hinemihi may refer to: * Hinemihi (Ngāti Tūwharetoa) (fl. 17th century), Māori woman of New Zealand * Hinemihi (whare) in Taumaranui, a Māori meeting house * Hinemihi (Rotorua marae) Ngapuna () is a suburb in eastern Rotorua in the Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand's North Island. The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "the springs" for ''Ngāpuna''. The Rotorua Wastewater Treatment P ...

Hinemihi (Ngāti Tūwharetoa)
Hinemihi was a Māori people, Māori woman of Ngāti Awa from Whakatāne in the Bay of Plenty, who married Tū-te-tawhā (son of Taringa), Tū-te-tawhā of Ngāti Tūwharetoa from the southern part of Lake Taupō, New Zealand. She is the ancestor of the Ngāti Hinemihi hapū of Ngāti Tūwharetoa. Te Ponanga saddle between Lake Taupō and Lake Rotoaira is named for an incident in her life. She probably lived in the seventeenth century. Life Hinemihi grew up at Whakatāne on the Bay of Plenty. She had one brother, Tū-hereua, an elder sister called Hine-aro, and a younger sister called Te Aki-pare. Te Ponanga-o-te-hei-o-Hinemihi One day, Hinemihi's sister Hine-aro came to Whakatāne along with a group of Ngāti Kurapoto, bringing ''huahua'' (cooked birds, preserved in their own fat). This was Hinemihi's favourite food, but when she tried to eat some, her brother Tū-hereua grabbed her hand and said "If you like ''huahua'' so much, why don’t you go to Taupō and marry Tū-te-taw ...
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Hinemihi (whare)
Taumarunui is a small town in the King Country of the central North Island of New Zealand. It is on an alluvial plain set within rugged terrain on the upper reaches of the Whanganui River, 65 km south of Te Kūiti and 55 km west of Tūrangi. It is under the jurisdiction of Ruapehu District and Manawatū-Whanganui region. It has a population of as of and is the largest centre for a considerable distance in any direction. It is on State Highway 4 and the North Island Main Trunk railway. Name The name ''Taumarunui'' is reported to be the dying words of the Māori chief Te Peehi Turoa – ''taumaru'' meaning screen and ''nui'' big, literally translated as Big Screen, being built to shelter him from the sun, or more commonly known to mean – "The place of big shelter". There are also references to Taumarunui being known as a large sheltered location for growing kūmara. In the 1980s publication ''Roll Back the Years'' there are some details on how Taumarunui got its ...
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