Taupō chief Hōhepa Tamamutu wrote a letter to the Māori-language newspaper Te Wānanga in 1875, and included a lament by a Ngāti Raukawa visitor to Taupō, Parāone Taupiri. Taupiri’s horses had died, and he requested horses from the Taupō chiefs in a waiata (song). The letter and waiata are translated below.
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