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Opening of Parewahawaha wharenui at Ōhinepuhiawe Marae, Bulls 1967.
Announcer welcomes listeners to the programme and informs them that the proposal to construct a new wharenui (meeting house) originated at the home of tribal elder Kereama Te Ngako in 1946, from local builder Whitireia Taylor Brown. Twenty-one years later the opening occurred on 15 April 1967.
Karanga (call of welcome) and wero (challenge) at the dawn opening.
Karakia (prayer) and whakatūwhera (formal opening) whare.
Commentary: Te Amo Tamihana knocked in the first peg in 1950, she being a chieftainess of Ngāti Parewahawaha.
Whaikōrero tuatahi [Unidentified speaker].
Commentary: Hēnare Toka and wife Mere taught whakairo (carving), tukutuku (panel weaving), and kōwhaiwhai (koru decorating) to locals.
Eruera Manuera (Ngāti Awa) mentions he is the only person (kurī rorirori) to attend from Mātaatua waka. "He kotahi nā Tūhoe, ka kata te pō.” Kōrero whakapapa.
Kelvin Kereama led carvers in their work. Ada Brown and Mrs Kay Hammond led the tukutuku and kōwhaiwhai work.
Waiata tangi: ‘Papā te whatitiri ka hiko te uira te tara ki’, see Ngā Mōteatea, Vol. IV, p 29.
Commentary: The name of the dining hall is Raungaiti.
Waiata oriori: ‘Pōpō e tangi ana’
Commentary: Presentation of flag, and a second presentation of a whalebone patu were made by Hepi Te Heuheu.
Whaikorero by Te Iwingaro Hēnare, a university student.
Commentary
Speech by Norman Kirk, the Leader of the Opposition.
Commentary
Mr R. Jack, Speaker of House of Representatives
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Bishop of Wellington, the Reverend W. Baines gives Benediction.