Sunday, 26 June 2011

26 Pipiri 2011

“Kia ngū te hoe i te wai.”
Move your paddle silently through water.
This week's whakatauki is explained by Awhina Twomey nō Ngāti Kahungunu, Tainui.

When one of the oldest Māori farming incorporations celebrated one hundred years of farming recently, among those celebrating were Sisters of Compassion from the nearby community of Jerusalem. Maraea Rakuraku had a chat with Sisters Sue and Margaret Mary of the Suzanne Aubert Sisters of Compassion.

Awhina Twomey is about to leave the comforts of home in Whanganui for the vast pacific oceans as one of the crew members aboard the waka Te Matau a Maui under the pacific voyager programme Te Mana o te Moana. Justine has a chat to Awhina a few weeks out from her departure.

In an archival recording from 1992, Henare te Ua (1933-2007) is at Aurere beach in the northland awaiting the arrival of te waka hourua (doubled hulled waka) Te Aurere on its return home from its maiden voyage to Rarotonga.

Waiata featured

Waka performed by Che Fu from the album What becomes of the broken hearted (1999);
Hinemoana performed by Wairere Barnsley from the album He waiata mā te katoa: Songs for everyone by Hirini Melbourne (2003).