Manaia

* a deity by whose assistance Haungaroa traveled from Hawaiki to New Zealand as she went to tell Ngātoro-i-rangi that he had been cursed by Manaia.

In 1886, he was part of a peaceful occupation of land near Manaia.

A statue has been erected in Manaia, New Zealand in his memory.

Cameron's force, by then boosted to 2300, moved again on 2 February, crossing the Waitotara River by raft and establishing posts at Waitotara, Patea and several other places before arriving at the Waingongoro River, between Hawera and Manaia, on 31 March, where a large camp and redoubts were built.

On 9 June 1868, Ngāti Ruanui warriors escalated their campaign, shooting and tomahawking three settlers felling and sawing timber on the east side of the Waingongoro River, between Hawera and Manaia.

On 25 November he was charged with threatening to burn a hotel at Manaia in October and using insulting language to troops at Parihaka in November.

Manaia View School ( formerly Raumanga Primary and Raumanga Middle schools, amalgamated )

* Manaia ( mythological creature )

Manaia Studio and the Niue Broadcasting Corporation are the only recording studios on the island.

Manaia is 29 km to the southeast.

State Highway 45 passes through Manaia, Opunake and Oakura en route to New Plymouth.

Bream Head and surrounding islands viewed from neighbouring Mt Manaia

South Taranaki is a territorial authority on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island that contains the towns of Hawera, Manaia, Opunake, Patea, Eltham, and Waverley.

* Manaia ( mythological creature )

The present Mayor is António José Manuel Manaia Sinogas, elected by the Unitarian Democratic Coalition.

Mawake Taupo took as wife a woman of the Hapuoneone named Hahuru and their son Manaia would eventually take the name Tuwharetoa