Whakarongotai

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Te Runanga o Ati Awa ki Whakarongotai Inc.

Established in 1990 to represent the interests of Nga whänau (families), nga hapü (sub-tribes) and nga iwi (tribes) who are descendants of those ancestors of Ati Awa and kindred tribes (Ngäti Tama, Ngäti Mutunga, Ngäti Maru Wharanui) who remained in Waikanae after 1848 and who identify with the land from Kukutauaki to Whareroa (seaward) inland to Pukemore and to Maunganui northward to Kapakapanui and Pukeatua to Ngawhakangutu then westward to Kukutauaki.