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• Ngoi Pēwhairangi,

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• Ngoi Pēwhairangi,

  E tū tautoko noa

  The waiata-ā-ringa ‘Tō Reo Karanga E’ was composed for the opening of the dining room at Mataura in the South Island in the mid-1980s. Ngoi’s hapū, Te Whānau-a-Ruataupare...

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Nau mai ki a Tāmata Toiere

He pātaka waiata, he pātaka haka a Tāmata Toiere e mau ana i ngā tikanga, i ngā āhuatanga a Tāne-rore, a te Rēhia hoki. Ko te pūtake o te pākata nei kia whakarauika katoa ngā kōrero e pā ana ki ngā titonga a te Māori arā; ngā kupu, tētahi whakapākehātanga o ngā kupu, ētahi whakamahuki mō te horopaki o te waiata me te take i tito ai te waiata rā, ētahi kōrero mō te kaitito, tētahi pāohotanga, tētahi kōnae whakaata o te waiata, ētahi whakaahua e hāngai ana ki te waiata, me tētahi rārangi rauemi hei āwhina i te tangata e hiahia ana ki te rangahau tonu i te waiata.