NIKORIMA TE RANGI-NOHO-IHO (?-1876), one of the last of the old chiefs of Taranaki, traced a distinguished line of ancestry back to Ao-nui. His hapu were Ngati-Haumia and Nga-Ruahine. He is said to have lived in the time of Captain Cook. His first noteworthy expedition was under the leadership of Te Rangi-i-Runga at Patupohue, where he is said to have killed two men. Later, under the same leader, he killed three men at Te Ahoroa (Hingakaka, Waiapu). At the battle of Rewarewa in 1805 he took prisoner the Ngamotu chief Takarangi. He himself escaped severely wounded from the fight at Tawhiri-Ketetahi. Being surprised in the Pukekohatu pa with only a few children, the men and women being away, he put it in a state of defence and threw down the ladder to prevent the entrance of the enemy, who thereupon retired. Nikorima died on 27 Jul 1876.

S. P. Smith, Taranaki.

Reference: Volume 2, page 66

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