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Sir Māui Wiremu Pita Naera Pōmare KBE CMG (1875 or 1876 – 27 June 1930) was a New Zealand medical doctor and politician, being counted among the more prominent Māori political figures. He is particularly known for his efforts to improve Māori health and living conditions.
Māui Pōmare was the first Māori doctor. As Māori Medical Officer, toured Māori districts in this role, advising people about public health. Pōmare became a member of Parliament in 1911, and minister of health in the 1920s.
Māui Wiremu Piti Naera Pōmare was one of the generation of Māori leaders educated at Te Aute College in the 1890s who were to assume positions of leadership in both the Māori and Pākehā worlds. His birthplace was Pāhau pā, Ōnaera, near Urenui, Taranaki.
2 de abr. de 2024 · Māui Pōmare (born January 13, 1876, Pahou Pa, New Zealand—died June 27, 1930, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) was a Māori statesman and physician whose public health work helped revive New Zealand’s Māori population, which had declined nearly to extinction by the late 19th century.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
When conscription for military service was introduced in 1916 it was initially imposed on Pākehā only. Pōmare and Ngata wanted it applied to Māori as a matter of self-respect. Māori blood had been spilt overseas, and Māori had a duty to respond; utu was required.
Taranaki Stories. Sir Māui Pōmare: A Life-long Quest. by Virginia Winder. Share this. Sir Māui Pōmare with Governor-General Sir Bernard Fergusson (1974). Bernard Woods. Collection of Puke Ariki (WD.039445). 02 03. When Parihaka was invaded on 5 November 1881, a five-year-old boy lost his toe.
The first Māori medical graduate, Pōmare had been a health reformer and Cabinet minister. During the ceremony, the governor-general, Lord Galway, unveiled an imposing white Sicilian marble statue of Pōmare, and a beautiful newly carved wharenui (meeting house).
