The warriors wanted a piece of the chief, but there wasn't enough of his body for everyone, so they licked his blood from the rocks there.

For weeks and months following the wreck, bones washed ashore along the Hokianga, including on the beach at Mitimiti.

[14] At the same time, the marae was connected to fibre broadband, in a project named Mititmiti on the Grid.

[16] Te Kura o Mātihetihe is a coeducational full primary (years 1–8) school[17] with a roll of 6 students as of November 2024.

[21] Poet Hone Tuwhare wrote poem A fall of rain at Mitimiti: Hokianga which was published in 1974 in his collection Something Nothing.