Purakau Maika ( â 4 August 1917) was a New Zealand newspaper editor and publisher. Of MÃÂori descent, he identified with the NgÃÂti Kahungunu and RangitÃÂne iwi. He was born in New Zealand in about 1852, and died at Hurunuiorangi PÃÂ, Gladstone, on 4 August 1917.