A Difficult Decision All the people of Awhitu know that the people of Maungawhau will come for Puhihuia, and their chief has to make the difficult decision as to whether to send her back; if she does stay, it may well cause the death of many of his people. Finally, mostly because of her high birth and the ties of blood between the two tribes, he allows her to remain with them as Ponga's wife. At the beginning of this last instalment the people of Awhitu are awaiting the arrival of the warriors of Maungawhau. Readers may be interested in the photograph of a painting of Mount Eden, once Puhihuia's home, on Page 26 on this issue of ‘Te Ao Hou’. The young artist Selwyn Muru portrays it as it appears to him today, some three hundred years after the events in this story: a tall hill with a dark crater, in the midst of a sea of red tin roofs.
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Te Ao Hou, March 1964, Page 12
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