Kahukuranui

He led an expedition to Te Pōrangahau in order to avenge Tūpouriao and marry his widow Tū-teihonga.

He was born at Nukutaurua on Mahia Peninsula and was the only one of their children to receive a whare-kōhanga ("nest house"), a building specially erected for the mother to give birth in.

[4] Mitchell characterises him as a man of peace, like his father, who secured his position through marriages, notably with Ruatapu-wahine, an adoptive daughter of his maternal grandfather.

[5][6] Kahukuranui's brother Tuaiti had married Moetai daughter of Moeahu and settled at Rurutawhao at Aranui (near Frasertown).

The elderly Kahungunu went to Wairoa and got the rangatira Wekanui to lead a war party to get revenge on Rongo-whakaata.

[17] At Kahungunu Marae at Nūhaka, which is linked to Ngāti Rakaipaaka, Kahukuranui was depicted on one of the original poupou (carved wall panels) of the wharenui, when it was opened in 1947.