Taite Te Tomo

New Zealand Parliament
Years Term Electorate Party
1930–1931 23rd Western Maori Reform
1931–1935 24th Western Maori Reform

Taite Te Tomo (1871 or 1872 – 22 May 1939) was a Māori and Reform Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand.

Te Tomo was probably born in 1871 or 1872 near Ōtaki.

He won the Western Maori electorate in a 1930 by-election after the death of Māui Pōmare, but lost it in 1935 to the Ratana candidate Toko Ratana.

In 1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.

He was a member of the Ngāti Tūwharetoa tribe, and of the Board of Ethnological Research. He died at Kākāriki Pā on 22 May 1939.

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