Tata ki te tekau ngā tau e pukumahi ana te Te Taua-a-rangi o Aotearoa ki te whakatū marae, te marae tuatahi mō rātou. Ko tā tumu whakarae o te tauā, he tūrangawaewae tēnei mō rātou i te papa tauā ki Ohakea i te Papaioeaea. Kei a Aroha Treacher ngā kōrero.
He rangi hītori nui mō te Taua-a-rangi o Aotearoa.
Hei tā Tony Davies, Chief of Airforce, “This is the culmination of basically 8 years of work to get to this point and to this day and if you look at the hundreds of people that have been involved in this especially in the past two years with all the construction and the preparing for it the training that’s going into it it's all coming to a focal point right on today.”
Ko tā Douglas Wallace, Kaiwhakahere Marae. “Kei o mātou hoa o Ngāti Tumatauenga me te Taua Moana, he whare he marae mō rāua engari kaore mō mātou nā reira ko te mea hirahira ko tēnei te tuatahi ko tēnei te turangawaewae mō mātou Te Tauaarangi ara ko mātou te pōtiki.”
I iti noa te pūtea hei whakaea i tēnei moemoea. I hūnukutia mai ngā whare tawhito o Te Taua-a-rangi, ā, nā ngā ringa raupā tīni ngā whare i āta hanga, kia tū tūrangawaewae mai ai.
Hei tā Davies, “We're calling it a turangawaewae for all intents and purposes it's exactly the same but it hasn't got those ancestral links that a marae has.
I ngā wā o mua i noho ngā manuhiri a Te Taua-a-rangi ki marae kē i te rohe, heoi ināianei kua whai wharepuni motuhake rātou - Te Ara Wheturangi a Kai.
Ko tā Wallace, “Ehara i te mea mō mātou ngā maori noa iho engari kia mātou katoa ahakoa kiri parauri kia mā rānei.”
Ināianei, kua whakatutukingia tētahi o ngā whainga matua e Te Taua-a-rangi, ara te whakarei tō rātou mana me te ahurea Māori hoki.
