Wgtn marae for East Coast tribe
PA Wellington Thousands of East Coast Ngati-Porou Maoris living permanently in Wellington will have a marae of their own. The Horouta ki Poneke Marae Society, comprising descendants of the NgatiPorou ancester, Porourangi, have signed a 33-year lease with perpetual right of renewal for two hectares of Crown land above the police college at Porirua. The signing was the culmination of six years work by the society.
The chairman of the society, Professor Sid Mead, of Victoria University of Wellington, said that several thousand Ngati-Porou were permanently resident in Wellington and many knew they would never return to their tribal lands. Many were dying and being buried in Wellington, he said. The new marae was a step towards facing the reality that they would never go home. It would give them a place to hold their own ceremonies and to help their young people develop their tribal identity.
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Press, 24 April 1984, Page 16
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