relations death_date death_place parliament birth_place constituency_mp predecessor successor birth_date spouse term_start image article_title term_end name
tame -rrb- albert asher -lrb- brother-in-law -rrb- ernie asher -lrb- brother-in-law parata -rrb- john atirau asher -lrb- brother-in law -rrb- -lrb- father -rrb- ned parata -lrb- brother 08 january 1918 wellington , new zealand new zealand puketeraki , near karitane , new zealand southern maori tame parata hopere uru 1865 katherine te rongokahira asher -lrb- m. 1896 -rrb- 1911 taare parata -lrb- free lance -rrb- . gif taare parata
 1918 taare parata
taare parata

taare rakatauhake parata -lrb- 1865 -- 8 january 1918 -rrb- , also known as charles rere parata , was a māori and a liberal party member of parliament in new zealand .
parata was born at puketeraki near karitane in 1865 , the son of tame parata -lrb- later the mp for southern maori -rrb- and his wife peti hurene , also known as elizabeth brown .
he affiliated to the ngāi tahu , kāti māmoe and waitaha iwi -lrb- tribes -rrb- .
his paternal grandfather was captain pratt , a whaler from massachusetts .
he received his education at dunedin normal school .
in 1896 , parata was a working for the native land court as a clerk and licensed interpreter .
on 15 june of that year in tauranga he married katherine te rongokahira asher , who belonged to the te arawa tribe .
she was the daughter of a jewish trader , david asher , and granddaughter of asher asher , the first captain of the auckland fire brigade .
her brothers included rugby players albert asher and ernie asher .
another brother , john atirau asher , came to live with te rongokahira and charles parata in wellington in about 1906 .
the couple had one daughter and two sons of their own .
charles and te rongokahira parata were among the leaders of `` progressive '' māori society and strongly supported the manifesto of what become the young māori party .
they often spent time in wellington , and moved there permanently in 1905 .
parata left his position with the native land court and joined william moffatt in business as land and estate agents , interpreters and native agents ; moffatt running the palmerston north branch and parata the head office in wellington .
following his father 's elevation to the legislative council in 1911 , parata succeeded his father as member of parliament for the southern maori electorate in the 1911 general election , and he held the seat until 1918 , when he died in wellington .
his body was returned to puketeraki for burial .
