Mrs Paeroa Wineera - the koauau

An interview with Mrs Paeroa Wineera of Ngāti Raukawa at the Māori culture display, organised by the Māori Women's Welfare League, at the culture centre in Elizabeth Street [Wellington?]. The unidentified interviewer claims at the time of the recording Mrs Wineera was the last exponent of the art of playing the kōauau.

The interview includes two kōauau tracks (including a piece Mrs Wineera says was played by Tutanekai on Mokoia Island.) Mrs Wineera is the aunt of opera singer Hana Tātana.

She also sings part of a waiata that she sang as a girl in the party which welcomed King George V (then the Duke of York) to Rotorua in 1901: 'Aue i noa i te terenga i kupa mai Rotorua.'