ohun.

1862 A. S. Atkinson Jrnl. 18 Apr. in Richmond-Atkinson Papers (1960) I. 755 In evg. went up to the foot of Totaraiahua to an ohu of Tutanekai who are digging potatoes there.

1949 P. H. Buck Coming of Maori iii. iv. 378 Co-operation in labour took the form of working bees which were termed ohu and they were frequently organized for clearing bush land for cultivations.

1988 M. King Apirana Ngata (caption) in Dict. N.Z. Eng. (1997) (at cited word) The ohu, or working bee, which cleared and sowed the Panguru block.

1974 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 13 Aug. 10/4 The New Zealand Government outlined plans today for New Zealand's first ohu—the Maori equivalent of the commune.

1981 M. Hayward Diary Kirk Years 183 The Listener in 1979 published a feature on the kibbutz or ohu scheme which described it as originating from ‘a chance remark by Norman Kirk’.

1991 North & South (Auckland, N.Z.) Dec. 52 This was at a time when communes and ohus were fashionable, even government-funded in some cases.

2000 Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.) 2 Oct. 13 New Zealand's last remaining Ohu—a commune of alternative lifestylers established in the 70s, on state land given away to the flower power generation by the Norman Kirk Labour government—survives downstream.