Tōia Mai
Piri Poutapu was born in Maungatautari in 1905. His parents were Pouaka Winikerei and Rangitaau Paraki. In 1921, he travelled to Ngāruawāhia with his whāngai mother, Te Puea Hērangi, to help fulfill her vision of establishing Tūrangawaewae Marae.