Tūwharetoa a Turiroa

Tūwharetoa a Turiroa made his base at Pōnui on Rangatira Point, which forms the western arm of Tapuae-haruru Bay (location of modern Taupō township).

[5][6] Later, Tūwharetoa a Turiroa went to Pahautea (located on the modern State Highway 5, between Taupo township and the Rangitaiki River), with his daughter Tawhanga-rangi and a slave, in order to prepare and preserve some kākā.

In revenge for that killing, Te Ata-inutai's grandson, Tū-te-tawhā, eventually organised an attack on Ngāti Tūwharetoa.

[8][9][10] Tūwharetoa a Turiroa was not in the village, since he had taken to sleeping in a cave called Matanuku and Matarangi in the cliff overlooking Lake Taupō.

When he realised that they were being attacked told his wife Rauhato to take their son and swim across Tapuae-haruru Bay to Wharewaka (now a suburb of Taupō township), a distance of about 3 km, to safety.

It was Paroparo-houmea, the same club that had been used to murder Rua-wehea and spark the cycle of revenge that culminated in Tūwharetoa a Turiroa's death.