Some Austronesian and Melanesian ethnic groups, including the Māori, some Sulawesi and some Papua New Guineans, count with the base number four, using the term asu and aso, the word for dog, as the ubiquitous village dog has four legs.

One result of their co-operation strategy was the establishment of the four Māori seats in parliament, in 1867.

Calling himself Piri Wiri Tua ( the campaigner ), he called the four seats in Parliament reserved for Māori the koata ( quarters ) of his body.

Not all Labour Party Māori MPs have been members of the Rātana Church, but the alliance with Rātana allowed Labour to hold on to all four Māori electorates from the 1940s until 1996.

In any event after four hours of battle, the Māori rebels withdrew.

The perpetrators had tried to implicate the neutral or friendly Māori of the area in the attack but they were captured by these same Māori and handed over to the British who hanged four of them on April 26.

Māori losses were between 13 and 20 ; the colonial force suffered four wounded.

The Tainui confederation comprises four principal related Māori iwi of the central North Island of New Zealand: Hauraki, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Raukawa and Waikato.

Māori men were given the vote and Māori were given four Members in Parliament who all argued strongly for modernisation and acceptance of the benefits of Pākehā civilization.

Chosen by an assembly of Māori chiefs in 1834, the flag was of a St George's Cross with another cross in the canton containing four stars on a blue field.

Te Rauparaha resisted, fighting broke out and 22 settlers and at least four Māori were killed. Te Rangihaeata the warlike nephew of Te Rauparaha insisted on killing the captured men as his wife, who was Te Rauparaha's daughter and Capt Benkinsop's ex wife, had been accidentally shot and killed.

A selection of three or four designs was sent from Australia, and one was chosen by the Māori chiefs at a meeting at his residency on 20 March 1834 ; see United Tribes of New Zealand.

Map of the Battle of Moturoa, 1868. The Māori camp had been established just four days earlier, in hilly, bush-covered country below the high wooded tableland of Okutuku, a village that had been raided in January 1866 as part of a " bush-scouring " campaign by Major-General Trevor Chute during the earlier hostilities.

Furthermore, the Kingitanga Māori insisted on their independence from the Colonial Government, in contravention of the Treaty of Waitangi which forty four Waikato chiefs had signed in 1840, including six from the Maniapoto tribe according to the facsimiles recorded by historian Claudia Orange in her book Treaty Of Waitangi.

Other versions are that three or four merchant seamen who had been drinking made no secret of their intention to clean up the visiting servicemen, or that Māori in a steak house objected to some " Yanks " being served first.

: The Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand accepts Te Tiriti o Waitangi as the founding document of Aotearoa New Zealand ; recognises Māori as Tāngata Whenua in Aotearoa New Zealand ; and commits to the following four Principles:

In any event after four hours of battle, the Māori rebels withdrew.

As expected, Labour also won all four Māori seats, maintaining its traditional strength there.

He took a Māori wife, Moengoroa, and they had four children, Susan, Maria Amina, Hauraki Hereward and Mary.

The winning of the four seats resulted in celebration for their supporters who anticipated seeing an independent, Māori voice in parliament.

Each union council comprised thirteen members elected from specified electorates: four men and two women elected directly by the general population ; two men and two women elected by peasants and workers ; one member for minority communities ; two members are elected jointly as the union mayor ( nazim ) and deputy union mayor ( naib nazim ).

Otago is divided into four parliamentary electorates with the city of Dunedin comprising two of these.

He was expelled from three parties, and represented four different electorates in two states.

The reforms of Cleisthenes replaced the traditional four " tribes " ( phyle ) with ten new ones, named after legendary heroes and having no class basis ; they were in fact electorates.

All Fijian citizens aged 21 or over, " or such other age as the Parliament prescribes ," who have been physically resident in Fiji for the two years immediately prior to their registration, are entitled to enroll on ( a ) a Common Roll, as an elector for one of the 25 " open electorates ," so-called because they are open to candidates of all races, elected by voters of all races, and ( b ) one of the four communal ethnic rolls, as an elector for a constituency reserved for one of the four recognized ethnic groups.

The five " general electorates ," reserved for Fiji's European, Chinese, and other minorities, showed similarly little change, with the General Voters Party winning four seats and the All Nationals Congress, one.

From 1868 to 1996, four Māori electorates existed ( out of a total that slowly changed from 76 to 99 ).

In the election, the new party won four of the Māori electorates.

However, in the election, they managed to increase their four electorates only to five.

In the end the setting up of Māori electorates separate from existing electorates assuaged conservative opposition to the bill-conservatives had previously feared that Māori would gain the right to vote in general electorates, thereby forcing all MPs ( rather than just four Māori MPs ) to take notice of Māori opinion.

All of these representatives were chosen by single-member geographical electorates, including four special Māori electorates.

Elections to the four Maori electorates were held the day before.

Elections to the four Maori electorates were held the day before.

Elections to the four Māori electorates were held the day before.

Elections to the four Māori electorates were held the day before — the 1949 elections were the last in which Māori voted on a different day.

In 1867, however, Parliament passed the Māori Representation Act, which created four special electorates for Māori.

In the 1935 elections, Ratana won two of the four Māori electorates.

By 1943, the Labour / Ratana alliance had won all four Māori electorates, establishing a pattern of dominance that many people thought was unbreakable.

A second leaped from his horse to the top of the bale, firing four arrows in such rapid succession it didn't seem possible they were in flight.

I knew that three or four of them were almost always present in the hall, but what they were doing, and exactly where, I could not tell.

He opened the myth book again and there ( along the margin next to Robert Graves' imaginative interpretation of the creation of the Dactyls from Rhea's fingertips ) were the names of four Munich bars and Meredith Wilder's address.

After a sort of death march during four days without food, Helion and his comrades were shipped by cattle-car to a labor camp at an estate farm in East Germany.

By early June they were a hundred miles off the coast of Ceylon, by which time all four missionaries were hardened seafarers.

Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at four o'clock at the home.

There were four from St. John's and four from Christ's, three from Pembroke, and two from each of the colleges, Jesus, Peterhouse, Queens', and Trinity, with Caius, Clare, King's, Magdalene, and Sidney supplying one each in the ordo senioritatis.

The maneuvers were held `` in secret '' after a regional seminar for the Minutemen, held in nearby Shiloh, Ill., had been broken up the previous day by deputy sheriffs, who had arrested regional leader Richard Lauchli of Collinsville, Ill., and seized four operative weapons, including a Browning machine gun, two Browning automatic rifles and an M-4 rifle.

It was a word he was proud of, a word that meant much to him, and he used it with great pleasure, almost as if it were an exclusive possession, and more: he sensed himself to be very highly educated, four cuts above any of the folks back home.

In contrast to the caravan of the previous night, there were only four cars parked across the street.

The enormous plates which had held Mr. Jack's four fried eggs and five strips of bacon were still stacked in the sink.

Within a few years various Du Pont manufactured items were filling the entire requirements of from four to seven of General Motors' eight operating divisions.

Although there were only four fluids tested, it was apparent that there were two distinct types.

All samplers were operated for a period of two hours except one, which was operated for four hours.

In contrast, Ditmars recorded the average length of seventy-two young of a 19-foot female as 38 inches, and four young were born in London at a length of 35 or 36 inches and a weight of from 14 to 16 ounces.

Numbers of registered persons in four age-and-sex classes were counted each year.

It ranged from those with no children, through students in various stages of pregnancy, to one 44-year-old male with four children, three of whom were teenagers.

If he is not told which of four or five readings was meant for him, he can more readily assess each item in a larger frame: `` Does that statement really sound as if it were for me, significant in my particular life??

Three agreed, but four declined and were suspended.

Selkirk persuaded eighty men and four officers to go to Red River where they were to serve as a military force to protect his settlers from the hostile Northwest Company which resented the intrusion of farmers into the fur traders' empire.

Those were his only interludes behind bars, although he collected four more charges on his police record in 1921 and 1922, three for burglary and one for robbery.