William Turakiuta Cooper (c.1886 – 4 August 1949) was a New Zealand interpreter and land officer.
Cooper was of Māori descent, identifying with the Ngāti Kahungunu iwi.
[1] Cooper was one of three members of a royal commission set up in 1926 to inquire into confiscations of native lands after the land wars of the nineteenth century as well as other grievances alleged by Māori.
The other two commissioners were William Sim and Vernon Herbert Reed.
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