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The Māori name Waiuku comes from a local legend that two prominent brothers, Tamakae and Tamakau,  from the local iwi, Ngati Te Ata, vied for the hand of a beautiful Waikato chieftainess from Tainui. Tamakae was the cultivator and provider, Tamakau the orator. Tamakau was the first to meet her, but she requested that Tamakae be presented to her also. Tamakae had been working in the kumara gardens and had to be cleaned up in the wai (water) and uku (a particular type of clay) at the stream that flows into the Manukau Harbour just behind the Waiuku Museum, before he could come before her. Tamakae instantly won her heart and they married. This is how Waiuku was named.
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