HUI WHAKAPAPA.

Toa Takitini, Issue 70, 1 June 1927, Page 599

HUI WHAKAPAPA.

Itu te hui i tenei te 25 onga ra, kite marae, o Tawake-moe-tahanga. Ko te 12 tenei o nga tunga hui, ate Arawa mo tana whakapapa. Kua hurt i te 20 tau c whakaherea ana tenei whakapapa. He tokomaha nga kaumatua na ratau i timata tenei whakapapa, kua mpe, kei o ratau tipuna, he ruarua e ora nei. He mea whakarite e te hui, ko Pererika Peneti hei Tiamana, ko Ereatara Eruini Te Tikao hei hekeretari. Ko' Eaurcti Mokonuiarangi te Kai-korero o te kaupapa o te whakapapa. Henui ana whakarnarama. Na Mita Taupopoki, o Tnhourangi, na Rota o Tapuika, na te Morehu Kirikau, o XgatiPikiao, i tautoko nga whakamarama a Raureti. .1 kite marama hold te hui katoa, ko nga hapu maha o te Arawa, kua kotahi ki tana kaupapa. Ko te Ure-o-uenuku-kopako, te wahanga e taria atu ana, kia whakakopa mai, heoi ano kua oti, te whakapapa a te Arawa. He tino main nui, he main taumaha, he main roa. No reira e te tangata whakapapa, kia u ki tau main, te tangata kauhau, te tangata waiata, te tangata patcre, kia u ki tau main, ki tau main. Ma te marama, ma te manawanui, ma te kaha, ka tutuki pai nga main. “Ka mama te main—ehara kau ite main— Ka taumaha te mahi—Ka uaua te mahi—anaia te mahi, korero tia te korero o te toa.” EREATARA ERUINI TE TIKAO. Ohinemutu, 81st May, 1927.