Pepene Eketone

1856 – 9 November 1933) was a New Zealand interpreter, native agent, assessor and politician.

Of Māori descent, he identified with the Ngāti Maniapoto iwi.

[1] The official return for the 1931 election lists him as Pepene Tango Eketone;[2] the middle name is not mentioned in his Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.

[1] Eketone was politically active and contested his first general election in 1887, when he stood in the Western Maori electorate; he came third out of five candidates.

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