Hānara Tangiāwhā Te Ōhakī "Arnold" Reedy (16 August 1903 – 8 April 1971) was a New Zealand tribal leader, farmer and soldier. Of

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descent, he identified with the

Ngāti Porou Ngāti Porou is a Māori iwi traditionally located in the East Cape and Gisborne regions of the North Island of New Zealand. It has the second-largest affiliation of any iwi, behind Ngāpuhi, with an estimated 102,480 people according to the ...

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. He was born in Whareponga, East Coast, New Zealand, on 16 August 1903. He was the eldest son of Materoa Reedy, née Ngarimu, and John Marshall Reedy, himself the eldest son of Thomas Tyne Reedy, an Irishman, and Mihi Takawhenua Ngawiki Tuhou.

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, a former member of Parliament, is his granddaughter. He was appointed an

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, for services to the Māori people, in the 1970 Queen's Birthday Honours. He was educated at

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and

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. He was a captain in the

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in World War II, serving alongside his cousin Moana-Nui-a-Kiwa Ngarimu, and returned to farming after the war. He was a foundation member of the New Zealand Maori Council for ten years, and was chairman of the Horouta Tribal Executive between 1956 and 1970. In 1949 he was a Māori member of the New Zealand delegation to the United Nations. He contested the

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seat several times; in and (when he came second) for Social Credit Party and in , and the 1967 by-election for

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