Heni Materoa Carroll

Heni Materoa Carroll (1850s to November 1, 1930) also known as Te Huinga was a leader of the Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki (a group of the Māori)) and wife of politician James Carroll.

She became chief of her people when her mother died in 1887.  When her husband was elected to Parliament, she did not move from Gisborne.  During World War I she worked to support Māori soldiers.  She became chairperson of the Eastern Māori Patriotic Association.  She was given the Order of the British Empire in 1918.

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Category:1930 deaths
Category:1850s births
Category:New Zealand Māori people