Using red, yellow, green, blue, and black ink, covered in baroque abstract patterns as well as tiny drawings of a flax plant and a cross-shaped flower, and featuring the slogan ‘Whaimana ana tenei moni ki nga tangata’ (‘This money is valid for all people’), the kotahi pauna (one pound) note was issued by Te Peeke o Aotearoa (the Bank of Aotearoa) in the name of ‘Tawhiao, Kingi’. The Kingitanga’s bank was founded in the second half of the 1880s, and operated at Rewehetiki in the northern Maungakawas.
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