Taite Te Tomo

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Taite Te Tomo in circa 1930

Template:NZ parlbox header Template:NZ parlbox Template:NZ parlbox Template:NZ parlbox footer Taite Te Tomo (1871 or 1872 – 22 May 1939) was a Māori and Reform Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand.

Te Tomo was probably born in 1871 or 1872 near Ōtaki.[1]

He won the Western Maori electorate in a 1930 by-election after the death of Māui Pōmare, but lost it in 1935 to the Ratana candidate Toko Ratana.[2]

In 1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.[3]

He was a member of the Ngāti Tūwharetoa tribe, and of the Board of Ethnological Research. He died at Kākāriki Pā on 22 May 1939.[4]

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