Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Kotahi rau tau neke atu a Mataatua wharepuni e noho mokemoke ana i tōnā ūkaipō, i Whakatāne. Kotahi rau tau neke atu kāore a Ngāti Awa i reira ki te whakamahana i a ia. Ka tangi tonu a Ngāti Awa. Maranga mai e ngā pou o te whare, ngā tūpuna o te whare i hoki mai, e koko ia, e ara e.

For over 100 years Mataatua wharepuni was uprooted from its home soil in Whakatāne, over 100 years in which Ngāti Awa could not be there to keep its fires burning. Ngāti Awa still mourns. Let the ancestral carvings of the house that came home arise! Arise!
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Te Whare i Hoki Mai
Ringatohu: Kahumako Rāmeka