Maori welcome planned
PA Wellington About 200 Maori people from Arahura, Westland, plan to turn Picton Harbour into a huge marae to welcome the rail ferry Arahura on her first crossing of Cook Street next week. A spokesman for the Poutini-Ngaitahu people of Arahura in Westland, Mr Stephen O’Regan, said he believed it would be the first Maori welcome for a rail ferry.
“The Arahura River is the traditional source in Maori myth of pounamu (greenstone),” Mr O’Regan said. “It is a central source of our identity. That identity is focused on the Arahura (ferry).” When the Arahura berths at Picton on December 21, about 200 Maori people will be assembled along the terminal to give the pohiri, or welcome.
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