1873. `Appendix to Journals of House of Representatives,' vol. iii. G. 7, p. 87:
"Were not all your hapu present when the money was paid? My hapu, through whom the land Nvas claimed, were present: we filled the room."
1882. T. H. Potts, `Out in the Open,' p. 171:
"An important structure that engaged the united labours of the hapu."
1887. J. White, `Ancient History of the Maori,' vol. i. p. 290:
"Each of which is subdivided again into <i>Hapu</i>, or smaller communities."
1891. Rev. J. Stacks, `Report of Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science,' vol. iii. sect. G. p. 378:
"On arriving in New Zealand, or Ao-tea-roa, the crews of the colonizing fleet dispersed themselves over the length and breadth of these islands, and formed independent tribes or nations, each of which was divided into hapus and the hapus into families."
<hw>Hapuku</hw>, <i>n.</i> Maori name for a fish, <i>Oligorus gigas</i>, Gunth., called later <i>Polyprion prognathus</i> (see quotation, 1895), pronounced <i>hapuka</i>, frequently corrupted into <i>habuka</i>, the <i>Groper</i> (q.v.). It is variously called a <i>Cod</i>, a <i>Perch</i> and a <i>Sea-Perch</i>. See quotations.
1845 (about). `New Plymouth's National Song,' Hursthouse's `New Zealand,' p 217: