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Story: Ngāti Tūwharetoa

Mōtū River

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Mōtū River

Tūwharetoa’s second wife, Hinemōtū, was a beautiful woman from Te Whānau-ā-Apanui. Her tribe named a rock in the Mōtū River after her.

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Martin Wikaira, Ngāti Tūwharetoa – Tūwharetoa, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/1181/motu-river (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by Martin Wikaira, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 March 2017.