Ngāti Raukawa oral history - Matenga Baker

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Piripi Walker interviews Matenga Baker.

Matenga Baker speaks about his family, about the talented D'Ath and Tāhiwi family and their musical background.

- Other memoirs - horses/training

- Railway line construction (Te Kākākura Parata was in charge).

- Tā moko on many of the women of his area.

- Food - dried shark, fruit, dairy farming.

- Compares today's times to yester year.

- Kuia and koura Heeni te Rei and Hōri te Waru who owned a lot of land.