An entry from Sue Davidson's blog for 23 October 2013 entitled, "Rehua Marae".
A photograph of Ngai Hau e Wha Marae on Pages Road.
A photograph taken inside Nga Hau e Wha Marae on Pages Road.
A photograph of Ngai Hau e Wha Marae on Pages Road.
A photograph of the earthquake damage inside Nga Hau e Wha Marae on Pages Road.
A photograph of a pouwhenua outside Nga Hau e Wha Marae on Pages Road.
A photograph of a sculpture inside Nga Hau e Wha Marae on Pages Road.
A photograph of a pouwhenua outside Nga Hau e Wha Marae on Pages Road.
A photograph of the earthquake damage inside Nga Hau e Wha Marae on Pages Road.
The story of the city’s urban marae, Ngā Hau e Whā, built from 1981 onwards, begins in the migration of Māori from their tūrangawaewae to cities. The marae project is linked to a desire among city elders to move Māori out of the city centre to the east.
A photograph of children playing around a pouwhenua outside Nga Hau e Wha Marae on Pages Road.
A photograph of people in a temporary Civil Defence Report Centre set up in the hall of the Nga Hau e Wha Marae on Pages Road.
A photograph of people in a temporary Civil Defence Report Centre set up in the hall of the Nga Hau e Wha Marae on Pages Road.
A photograph of people in a temporary Civil Defence Report Centre set up in the hall of the Nga Hau e Wha Marae on Pages Road.
The city centre and Tuahiwi Marae, the home of Ngāi Tūāhuriri, are now linked by names. The Anglican cathedral and Tuahiwi’s church, both called St Stephens, sit on land called Whitireia. Whitireia was the house of Paekia, the ancestor who landed on the North Island on the back of a whale at Tūranga, which is now the name of Christchurch’s city library.