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Ko Rangataua te Tahuna

Ko Mataatua te Waka

Ko Mangatawa te Marae

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Mangatawa Papamoa Blocks Incorporation (MPBI) is a Maori Incorporation that was formed on the 27th May 1957 by the Maori Land Court. Numerous whanau of Nga Potiki amalgamated several smaller land blocks of their whenua, for the sole purpose of stopping further confiscations of the lands.

Blocks vested in to Mangatawa Papamoa Blocks Incorporation

Mangatawa 4A P
Mangatawa 4C
Mangatawa 4D
Mangatawa 4F
Mangatawa 3B No 2
Pt Papamoa 2 Section 8B no 2
Pt Papamoa 2 section 7A
Mangatawa 2B2
Mangatawa No 1
Papamoa A12
Papamoa 2 Section 9B

Our Organisational Structure

Our Original Shareholders

Here is a list of our Original Shareholders who vested lands in to Mangatawa Papamoa Blocks Inc.

Our Whenua

Mataraunui: Ngā Marae o Tauranga Moana is a special video series in partnership with Ngai te Rangi & Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Ranginui, to showcase marae and areas with historical significance around Tauranga Moana, following the waiata ‘Tūmokemoke.’ Below is the series of Mangatawa.

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Our Legend

Name: Nga Tohora e toru
Voice: Wakata Kingi

Long, long ago, a whale and her baby swam into the Tauranga Harbour. They swam through the entrance, past Mauao and Te Moutere o Matakana.

They decided to venture further into the harbour, so they swam up past Te Papa and Matapihi toward Maungatapu. Once there, they found the water getting shallower, so they decided to return to deeper water. However, instead of swimming back out through the entrance, they turned and headed into the Rangataua arm of the harbour between Matapihi and Maungatapu.

They struggled over the mudflats of Rangataua, trying to find a way back to the open sea. They knew which direction the ocean lay; they could hear the sound of the waves pounding on to the beach at Omanu and Papamoa. Tired and thirsty, they stopped at Karikari on the eastern shore of Rangataua to drink from a spring. They did not know that the spring was magic and that drinking from the spring would turn them into stone. They began to drink. Suddenly all life departed from them.

The father whale came in search of his family. He saw that they had turned to stone. He too, drank from the spring and became fixed behind the mother and baby whale, and is known as Kopukairoa. The mother whale, Mangatawa, lies at the southern end of Rangataua Bay with the baby whale, Hikurangi, nestled beside her.