One of the speakers outside the new dining hall, Aroha a Te Arawa New Centre at Rotorua National Publicity Studios photographs Kapa Ehau, now confined to a wheelchair, but still one of the silver-tongued orators of Ngati Whakaue Mataatua marae, Rotorua, was crowded for the opening of the ‘Aroha a te Arawa’ dining hall and community centre on 8 March. The new building was opened by the member of parliament for Eastern Maori, Mr P. Reweti, and dedicated by Rev. H. Tangohau of Gisborne and Rev. W. P. Foster of Northland. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, a movement was initiated by the Tuhoe people for the Maori Land Court to set aside an area of land for a marae reservation in Rotorua. The area now called the Mataatua marae was made avilable by the original owners, Ngati Whakaue, a branch of the Arawa tribe. The name of the hall, ‘Aroha a te Arawa’, acknowledges the gratitude of the Tuhoe people to the Arawa people for the gift of the land on which the hall stands. Development of the area has been going