Pepene Eketone (ca. 1856 – 9 November 1933) was a New Zealand interpreter, native agent, assessor and politician. Of Māori descent, he identified with the Ngāti Maniapoto iwi. He was born in Taranaki, New Zealand in circa 1856.

He sometimes used an English name, which was based on missionaries, and was thus known as Fairburn Eggleston or Fairburn Eccleston. The official return for the lists him as Pepene Tango Eketone; the middle name is not mentioned in his Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.

Pepene Eketone

Eketone was politically active and contested his first general election in , when he stood in the electorate; he came third out of five candidates. In the , he came second after the incumbent, Hoani Taipua. In the , he was one of 13 candidates in the Western Maori electorate and came seventh.

Pepene Eketone

He had one last (unsuccessful) attempt of getting elected in the Western Maori electorate in the general election; of the six candidates, he came fourth.

Pepene Eketone

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1850s births

1933 deaths

Interpreters

People from Taranaki

Ngāti Maniapoto people

New Zealand Māori public servants

Unsuccessful candidates in the 1887 New Zealand general election

Unsuccessful candidates in the 1890 New Zealand general election

Unsuccessful candidates in the 1893 New Zealand general election

Unsuccessful candidates in the 1896 New Zealand general election

Unsuccessful candidates in the 1908 New Zealand general election

Unsuccessful candidates in the 1931 New Zealand general election

19th-century New Zealand politicians

Colony of New Zealand people