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Hekia Parata Biography
Hekia Parata is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on November 1, 1958 in Ruatoria, Gisborne District, New Zealand.
Born and raised in Ruatoria, Parata shares Scottish, Irish, English, Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Porou ancestry.
She was one of eight children to her mother, Hīria Te Kiekie Reedy of Ngāti Porou.
Hekla parata biography of alberta
Her maternal grandfather was Arnold Reedy. Her father, Ron Parata, was of Ngāi Tahu descent and was raised in Puketeraki, near Dunedin. He served in the Māori Battalion and was a teacher and then principal at Ngata Memorial College in Ruatoria.
Tame Parata, a Member of Parliament from 1885 to 1911, was Hekia Parata’s great-great-grandfather. One of Parata’s sisters, Nori Parata, is Principal at Tolaga Bay Area School. Another sister, Apryll Parata, is a Deputy Secretary at the Ministry of Education (although was first employed in this role prior to Hekia Parata’s appointment as Minister of Education).
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