| Excavations have shown the remains of not just one wharenui, but possibly three. |
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| In the wharenui, the group has been introduced to the haka, the long pois, and short sticks, and has had an opportunity to try them all. |
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| In the wharenui the group has been introduced to the haka, the long pois and short sticks and has had an opportunity to try them all. |
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| Perhaps two years later, Maori went back to the site and built the big wharenui on top of the site. |
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| The first new wharenui in a century was opened on the South Island when the Rehua Wharenui was completed. |
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| The media have been allowed time to film set-up shots before the hui begins in the wharenui. |
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| It has been the local people's wishes that they have uninhibited time to deliver in the wharenui. |
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| A carving of the whale, mounted by its rider, occupies the prime spot above the local wharenui, a permanent reminder of the tribe's beginnings. |
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| The new wharenui is a tribute to the kaumatua and people of the iwi who have worked so hard to establish it as a thriving and progressive marae once more. |
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| Visitors walk under the bargeboards of a wharenui decorated in whale-like patterns and topped with a carving of a whale rider. |
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| The Oligarch, Alexander Abramov, is providing assistance to rebuild Ngatiwai's Te Uri o Hikihiki wharenui at Mokau Marae, north of Whangarei. |
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| Fortunately the wharenui sustained only minor structural damage and continued to have running water, power and sewerage. |
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