TE HURUHURU, a South Island chief of the early nineteenth century, belonged to the Ngai Tahu tribe. He had a narrow escape from death in a fight between Ngai Tahu and Ngati Mamoe on the Waitaki river, south Canterbury. Bishop Selwyn, who met him at the Waitaki ferry in 1844, found him a man of pleasing manners, and Edward Shortland, who found him as chief person at Te Puna a Maru, says that he acted as ferryman very conscientiously. He gave much information about the interior of Otago, and drew a map showing the position of the inland lakes.

Selwyn, Annals; Shortland; Hocken, Otago.

Reference: Volume 1, page 228

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