Ihaia Porutu Puketapu, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Ihaia Porutu Puketapu

Te Ati Awa leader, butcher, roading contractor, labourer

Date of Birth: 07-Feb-1887

Date of Death: 01-Jul-1971

Nationality: New Zealand

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Ihaia Porutu Puketapu (1887–1971) was a New Zealand tribal leader, butcher, roading contractor and labourer.
Of Maori descent, he identified with the Te Ati Awa iwi.
He was born in Waiwhetu, New Zealand, in 1887. As a young man, he was trained by the prophet Te Whiti at Parihaka, before returning to the Wellington region.
He was active in the early New Zealand Labour Party and had close friendships with Peter Fraser and Walter Nash; he was active in the campaign for the Maori Social and Economic Advancement Act 1945.Puketapu married Amiria Ake Ake, in Hawera about 1907, but she died in 1916.
He remarried Pakeha [Vera May Yeates (1904–1991) on 15 March 1930, at Wellington.
They had many children, including Ihakara Puketapu and Erenora Puketapu-Hetet.In the 1960 Queen's Birthday Honours, Puketapu was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for social welfare services to Maori youth.Puketapu died in Lower Hutt on 1 July 1971.