Eastern Māori

Eastern Maori was one of the four original New Zealand parliamentary Māori electorates, from 1868 to 1996. The electorate includes the following population centres: The electorate includes the following tribal areas: Eastern Maori included Rotorua and the Bay of Plenty, and the Poverty Bay area down to Gisborne. Originally the electorate extended down the East Coast and included the Wairarapa, but in 1954 the boundaries of the Southern Maori electorate were extended to include much of the East Coast of the North Island up to Napier and Wairoa in Hawke's Bay. The first Member of Parliament for Eastern Maori was Tareha te Moananui; he was the first Māori MP to speak in Parliament, and he retired in 1870. James Carroll represented the...