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In March 1842 Pehi Tu-te-pakihi-rangi led some 400 people, including John, Te Aitu and their son, born the previous year, to live at Te Kopi-a-Uenuku, Palliser Bay. In 1845, after the first European sheep stations were established in Wairarapa, John and Te Aitu moved inland, up the Ruamahanga River, to land called Waka-a-paua, later the Waka-a-paua block.
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I te whakapaunga o te tau 1840 ka houhia te rongo, ka hokihoki ngā rangatira ki Te Wairarapa. I te marama o Maehe 1842, ka haria e Pēhi Tūtepākihirangi ngā iwi e 400, rātau ko John ko Te Aitū me tā rāua tama tāne ki Te Kopi-a-Uenuku, i Palliser Bay, noho ai. I whānau tā rāua tama tāne i te tau 1841. I te tau 1845, i muri i te tūnga tuatahi o ngā teihana hipi a te Pākehā ki Te Wairarapa, ka neke whakauta a Te Aitū rāua ko John, ki te moutere o Te Uretā (Jury's Island); e huaina ana te whenua nei i nāianei ko te Waka-ā-pāua. I te wā i kitea e Te Aitū a Kauorarangi, he mea huna ki reira i mua, ka taumautia e ia ngā whenua o Waka-ā-pāua hei kāinga mōna. He taonga pounamu tēnei i whakakāherutia te āhua. I te moetere tonu, ka hangaia tō rāua whare tuatahi i te wāhi mārakerake, i kīia ko Ngaki-a-Tōtara. Ka huri rāua ki te ahu whenua, ka whakatō i te ōti me te witi; i whai kararehe anō hoki rāua, he nanekoti, he hōiho, ā hui ā rāua kau e 200.
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