the “Oturereao” canoe, from whom the Tairongo Tribe of Ohiwa derived their name.

This canoe made the land at Ohiwa, where her crew settled. It is said that she arrived about the time of the historic migration, and that she brought the aute shrub (paper-mulberry) to this land. Colonel Gudgeon states that Taikehu was the chief of the “Oturereao” canoe, and that Tairongo was chief of the people of Ohiwa when the vessel made the port. Hamilton, in his “Maori Art,” gives “Oturereroa” as the name of a vessel which reached these shores from Hawaiki. This is probably a misprint.

I am inclined to think that my Ngatiawa informants are right, and that Tairongo was chief or “Oturereao,” for they say of him, “Tairongo belonged to Hawaiki-nui. He was an important chief of that land, as also was Rongoatau. They lived at Te Whakao, at Hawaiki-nui.”