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Ray Ahipene-Mercer
Ray Ahipene-Mercer (born 24 October 1948) is a New Zealand politician serving as city councillor in Wellington,〔Wellington City Council. ("Councillor - Ray Ahipene-Mercer." ) wellington.govt.nz. Retrieved on 2007-06-18.〕 only the second Māori to be elected to the Wellington City Council and the first Māori to be elected since 1962.〔"Councillor's journey from pop to politics." ''The Evening Post'', 5 May 2000, edition 3, page 8.〕 He is also a guitar-maker, musician, and well-known environmentalist,〔〔Career Services. (ca. 2003, ("Local Government Representative: Kanohi Kāwanatanga a-Rohe — Ray Ahipene-Mercer, City Councillor". ) Career Services/Rapuara: Seek the Path. Retrieved on 2007-06-18.〕 and was one of the leaders of the Clean Water Campaign, which led to the end of sewage pollution of the Wellington coast.〔 He was a candidate for mayor of Wellington in the council elections of 2007,〔Community News Limited. (2007-03-07). ("Ray Ahipene-Mercer: 'I am your mayoral candidate.'" ) CNews. cnews.co.nz. Retrieved on 2007-06-18.〕 the first Māori ever to contest the position.He was runner-up to the incumbent.〔http://wellington.govt.nz/haveyoursay/elections/results/2007/final/2007results.html〕 As a musician and guitar maker he usually uses the name Ray Mercer, and has used the name Ray Ahipene-Mercer for other purposes including his environmental work and politics.
== Family background ==
Ahipene-Mercer is of Māori, Welsh, Swedish, and Scots descent.〔''The Evening Post'', 3 May 2000, edition 3, page 5.〕 He descends from the ancient Wellington tribes of Ngai Tara〔The Edge of Tangaroa's Domain Dominion Post 4 September 2003〕 and Ngati Ira. Direct ancestors were members of the Ngati Ira people displaced after conflict in the Wellington area in the 1820s to the Wairarapa.〔("Tamairangi." ) ''Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.'' Retrieved on 2007-06-18.〕 Ahipene Mercer's closest Māori links now are at Pirinoa, and Kohunui Marae, the people of his maternal grandmother. His mother's father, from whom the name "Ahipene" was passed down, was of the Ngati Kahungunu, tribe from the area around Porangahau, and also of Ngai Tahu descent. This grandfather was also of Scots descent, through James Wybrow, a whaler. There is a strong family link with Ruapuke Island, between Stewart Island and the South Island.
Ahipene Mercer's mother, Ramona Ahipene, married Eugene (Gene) Mercer, a seaman of mixed Welsh and Swedish ancestry who arrived in New Zealand after World War II. Both parents were both active members of the celebrated Ngati Poneke Māori club in Wellington City, and later the famous Hutt Valley Mawai Hakona group. The whole family was closely associated with the urban Orongomai Marae. Eugene Mercer was a staunch trade unionist.
Ahipene-Mercer married Christine (Chris) Viggars in 1972. After an extended overseas experience in the UK they returned to New Zealand, where Chris died, suddenly, in 1981.
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