Rongowhakaata "Rongo" Pere Halbert (2 February 1894 – 11 April 1973) was a Māori tribal leader, interpreter, historian and genealogist.
[1] As a historian and genealogist, Halbert contributed to John Hikawera Mitchell's Takitimu (1944), a record of the migration of the Ngāti Kahungunu.
[4] He also contributed to the Whakatane and District Historical Society's first memoir, Te Tini o Toi, as well as papers on the dating of Maori genealogies.
He died at Lavington Private Hospital in Epsom, Auckland on 11 April 1973 and was buried at Taruheru Cemetery in Gisborne.
He left three main collections of papers: a manuscript called 'Horouta', 130 complete whakapapa charts, and a series of maps and historical data with iwi and hapū.