TAKING AN ACUTELY UNIQUE MĀORI
world view, we pay reverence to the prestige of Wai Ariki, to the whenua upon which it stands and to the iwi of Ngāti Whakaue (nō mua, nō muri, nō nāianei), who helped conceptualise and build, and now occupy, this significant Ngāti Whakaue whare as uri whakaheke.
E kō, kōia e tū mai nei!
E kō, kōia e ara ake nei!
Ka ū ki Matānuku! Ka ū ki Matārangi!
Ka ū ki ngā maunga whakahī o Kupe!
Ko Pūhanga Tohorā ka whai ki Te Ramaroa!
Ko Te Ramaroa ka heke ki Whiria!
Ko te paiaka o te riri, ko te kawa o Rāhiri!
Whiria, ka huri ki Panguru ki Papata, te rākau e tū papata ki Te Tai Hauāuru!
Panguru, Papata ko Maunga Taniwha Whakarongorua!
Maungataniwha ka heke ki Tokerau!
Tokerau ko Rākaumangamanga!
Rākaumangamanga ko Manaia!
Ko Manaia ko Tūtāmoe!
Tūtāmoe ko Maunganui!
Ka hārō i te kāhu, ko Te Kāhu Pōkere, ko Te Mānukanuka o Hoturoa!
Kei runga, kei te tonga ko Maunga Kiekie e tū noa, ko Maunga Whau te taha whakararo!
Ko Te Wai o Huakaiwaka! Nga Wai o Rakataura!
Ka rarapa mai ō kanohi ki Te Pūkaki Tapu o Poutūkeka
ki Te Puketāpapa ā Hape!
Ko Maunga Taketake! Ko Pukeiti! Kei Te Kei o Tainui!
Hoki whakamuri mai kei reira a Taramainuku, ko Kaiwhare, rāua ngātahi
