Paraire Karaka Paikea

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name=Paraire Karaka Paikea
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birth_date= 1 June 1894
birth_place= Otamatea, Kaipara, New Zealand
death_date= 6 April 1943
death_place=Wanganui, New Zealand

Paraire Karaka Paikea (1 June 1894–6 April 1943) was a New Zealand politician who captured the Ratana Movement's third Māori seat of Northern Māori from Taurekareka Henare in 1938. He was Minister without portfolio representing the Māori race from 1941 to 1943 and was also Māori Recruiting Director on the War Administration Board. Known as "Piri Wiri Tua", after Tahupotiki Wiremu Ratana, his early death ended a promising career. He was succeeded as MP by his son Tapihana Paraire Paikea.

Early life

Of Te Uri-o-Hau and Ngati Whatua descent, Paraire Karaka Paikea was born in Otamatea, in the Kaipara area of Northland. New Zealand. An ordained Methodist Minister by 1921, he joined the Ratana movement and by 1924 was on the Ratana council. In June 1925 he was one of the original gazetted Ratana ministers.

External links

* [http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/P/PaikeaParaireKaraka/PaikeaParaireKaraka/en Biography in in the 1966 "Encyclopaedia of New Zealand"]

References

* Henderson, James Mcleod (1963). "Ratana The Man, The Church, The Movement" (1st ed.) A.H & A.W. Reed Ltd ISBN 0-589-00619-3.