John Patterson (Southern Maori politician)

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| native_name = Hōne Paratene Tamanuiarangi

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| birth_date = {{circa}}1821

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| term_start = 1868

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Hōne Paratene Tamanuiarangi ({{circa}}1821 – 30 April 1899), also known as John Patterson, was a Māori member of Parliament in New Zealand. He was one of four Māori elected in 1868 for the new Māori electorates in the New Zealand parliament

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He represented the electorate of Southern Maori from 1868 to 1870 when he retired.{{cite book |last= Wilson |first= James Oakley |title= New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 |edition= 4th |orig-year=First published in 1913 |year= 1985 |publisher=V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |location= Wellington |oclc=154283103 }}

As a young man, Patterson was involved in whaling with Philip Ryan at Oashore Bay, south of Lake Forsyth on the southern coast of Banks Peninsula. He also participated in the West Coast gold rush of the mid-1860s. He died aged 78 years at Kaiapoi in 1899.{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=CHP18990502.2.45 | title=Death of a well-known Maori | date=2 May 1899 | work=The Press | access-date=17 January 2015 | page=6}}