Rakaipaaka "Was a rangatira whose movements were to have an important bearing on the settlement of the Wairoa District."

Rakaipaaka's eventful life concluded when, in a ripe old age, he slipped off on the spirit journey to the Reinga, mourned by a very large and powerful tribe of people who dominated the Nuhaka district. His name is commemorated today in the tribal name of the Nuhaka people, Ngati Rakaipaaka. Also memorialising this paramount chief is the bridge over the Nuhaka River on the Gisborne highway, which has been named the Rakaipaaka bridge.

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