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Matakarapa
Kete Horowhenua2020-03-23T16:52:49+00:00From G. Leslie Adkin, Horowhenua (1948):
Matakarapa kainga. A native village on the left bank of the Manawatu River nearly opposite the present town of Foxton. It is one of the very few of the river-bank settlements still in occupation. The inhabitants belong to the Ngati-Takihiku hapu, this hapu owning the land in the tip of the great loop of the Manawatu River in this locality. The village possessed (until recently, when it was destroyed by fire) a carved meeting house named Aputa-ki-wairau; the carver of this house was Hokowhitu Makirika (McGregor), who also carved the slabs of the Takihiku meeting house at the former Pua-o-Tau kainga at Paiaka Road, near Koputaroa. This descendant of Takihiku and Raukawa still lives (1940) at Matakarapa.