‘The Legend of Para-Hia (Taniwha.) as Told to W. H. Skinner by Tu-Tanekaha of the Ngati-Maru Branch of the Ati-Awa Tribe, at Purangi’ in The Journal of the Polynesian Society No. 23 (September 1897).
The Polynesian Society was co-founded in 1892 by Stephenson Percy Smith and Edward Tregear, largely in response to a conviction, widely held at the time, that the Māori and other Polynesian peoples were a dying race. Smith and his friends hoped that it would help to preserve the traditional lore of the Māori before it disappeared and provide scholars with a forum for learned discussion of their ethnographic research (Byrnes 2006).
Giselle M. Byrnes. 'Smith, Stephenson Percy - Biography', from the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Te Ara - the Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, updated 1-Sep-10 (accessed 6 November 2012).