Official approval has been given to the proposal that the name Mokena shall be given to the soda water geyser in the Te Aroha Domain. Six names were submitted. Plans for the concrete catchment basin and storage tank are with the Public Works Department, and the work should start in the near future. Mokena was the tribal chieftain, the hereditary head of the Te Aroha Maoris. He was noted for his uprightness of character, his warm friendship for the Europeans, and his generosity. He presented numerous areas of land, including the domain, when the township of Te Aroha was being laid out. To him Te Aroha owes practically all its church sites.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 January 1939, Page 7
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