Iriaka Matiu Rātana OBE (née Te Rio; 25 February 1905 – 21 December 1981) was a New Zealand politician and Rātana morehu who won the Western Maori electorate...
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Rātana (Māori: Te Haahi Rātana) is a Māori Christian church and movement, headquartered at Rātana Pā near Whanganui, New Zealand. The Rātana movement began...
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Howard were all from the Labour Party. The first Maori woman MP was Iriaka Rātana in 1949; she also succeeded to the seat held by her late husband. Women...
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Matiu Rātana (16 December 1912 – 7 October 1949), son of Tahupotiki Wiremu Rātana, was a New Zealand politician and president of the Rātana Church. A...
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woman MP was Iriaka Rātana, who represented the Western Maori electorate. Like Elizabeth McCombs, New Zealand's first woman MP, Rātana won the seat in...
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(1941), Mary Grigg (1942), Mabel Howard (1943), Hilda Ross (1945), Iriaka Rātana (1949, the first woman Māori MP), Ethel McMillan (1953), Esme Tombleson...
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the first women to be appointed to the Legislative Council. In 1949, Iriaka Rātana became the first Māori woman to win a seat in Parliament. By the late...
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Table footnotes: Matiu Ratana, the previous holder of the Western Maori electorate, died on 7 October 1949. His wife Iriaka Rātana stood for election instead...
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death, and was in turn succeeded by their son Terry McCombs in 1935 Iriaka Rātana first female Māori MP In the Philippines, a candidate that has died...
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and was ordained a minister (āpotoro rēhita or registered apostle) of the Rātana Church, serving as parish minister for Oparure, Te Kūiti and Piopio in the...
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