Pukepuke Tangiora was known to discuss Temperance outside Saint Luke's Church at the height of the Temperance Movement. Both Pukepuke Tangiora and Mohi Te Ātahīkoia laid the Foundation Stone for the WCTU in Napier on 30 August 1911 alongside Mrs Oldham and G W George William Venables, a local businessman who established the printing firm Venables & Co. in Tennyson Street, Napier.
