456 Transactions. —Miscellaneous. 
The Migration from Wairoa to Heretaonga. . 
Wairoa was formerly the home of the Maoris now occupying the inlan 
portion of Hawke's Bay about Te Aute and Poukawa. 
The reason for their leaving Wairoa was this:—A chief named Iwi- 
Katere, living at a pa near Turiroa Wairoa, had a pet tui (parson-bird, 
Prosthemadera nove-zealandie), which had been taught to repeat the proper - 
prayers and incantations used while planting kwmaras, taro, etc., and thus 
was very valuable as an economizer of labour. Tamatera, a chief of the 
adjoining pa, borrowed the bird of Iwi-Katere. After having detained it for 
a length of time, Iwi-Katere sent for his pet, but Tamatera would not give 
it up, so Iwi-Katere went and fetched it away. When night came on 
Tamatera went by stealth and took the bird. The tui kept repeating to its 
master the following words :—“ I am gone, I am gone, on the handle of a 
paddle; I am tired of fighting. Oh, Sir, I am gone!" It was waste of 
words on the bird's part, for its master did not understand the meaning. 
So Tamatera took it safe away. On the following day Iwi-Katere attacked 
thethieves, but was repulsed, so he obtained the assistance of Rakaipaka 
from the Mahia, who had been driven away from Turanga, and attacked 
and killed Tamatera, Taupara, and many others; but many were destroyed 
on both sides. After this Ngarengare and the survivors, including his 
granddaughter Hine-te-moa, moved to Heretaonga and settled in the neigh- 
bourhood of Poukawa and Te Aute, driving away the original owners from 
that district, viz., Tane-nui-a-rangi and others. A great battle took place 
near Tahoraite, in the Seventy-mile Bush, and from the length of time 
the people who had been killed took in cooking in the kangi or umu, the 
place was called Umutaoroa,—that is the site of the present village of 
Danevirk. These events happened in the days of Rakaipaka, a contempo- 
rary of Kahukuranui and Rakai-te-hikuroa, viz., in the second and third 
generation after the arrival of the canoe * Takitimu." 
