AOTEA TUA-TORU Opened at Makirikiri Visitors were challenged by warriors on two platforms erected at the side of the road leading to the marae. The Prime Minister, accompanied by Mr Lui Paewai, picks up the wero-stick as he arrives at the Makirikiri marae. Aotea Tua-Toru, at Makirikiri, near Dannevirke, was opened by the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon. K. J. Holyoake on Saturday 17 June, and blessed by the Metropolitan of New Zealand, Archbishop P. T. B. McKeefry. This new house, built of concrete blocks on a steel frame, and with modern amenities, incorporates old carvings from Aotea Tua-Rua, which stood at Tahoraiti. Also opened was a well-equipped dining room, Te Kurairirangi, which stands alongside the meeting house. In a pre-dawn ceremony. Queen Te Atairangikaahu with her Waikato elders and people advanced slowly across the marae, and were given the name of the house by Taane Nikora and Kurairirangi Paewai, who stood by the