Michael Rotohiko Jones CBE MM JP (14 September 1895 – 24 January 1978) was a New Zealand interpreter, land agent, sportsman, private secretary, public administrator and broadcaster.
Pare Te Kōrae remarried to David Jones, of Ngā Puhi, and both sons adopted their step-father's surname.
In World War I he joined the Māori Pioneer Battalion and served on the Western Front from 1916 to 1919, achieving the position of staff sergeant and receiving the Military Medal.
[1] He served on Hāwera's Borough Council and Hospital Board,[1] and as president of the South Taranaki branch of the RSA.
[1] In 1940, through the intervention of Āpirana Ngata, Jones became the private secretary to the Minister of Native Affairs, then Frank Langstone.
[1] In 1947, Jones organised the official Tainui party to Tonga for the double royal wedding of Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV and his brother Fatafehi Tuʻipelehake.
[1] He was on the managing board of the journal Te Ao Hou / The New World, sat on the council of the Polynesian Society from 1939 to 1955, and then served as its president.