Ko Tainui te waka
Ko Kapuarangi te maunga
Ko Wainui te awa
Ko Torerenui-a-rua te Tipuna
Ko Manaakiao te tangata
Ko Ngaitai te iwi
Located in the heart of the Opotiki District, Torere is the ancestral home of the Ngaitai Iwi, descendants of Torerenuiārua (the first born of Hoturoa of the Tainui waka) and Manaakiao. Torere is the turangawaewae tuturu o Ngaitai. Our ancestral homelands are the remote coastal lands and foreshore and the sea that has nurtured our many generations.
Story of Torere and Manaakiao
Torerenuiarua derives her name from her father’s sister, Hinetorere, who died in Hawaiki prior to the migration of the waka Tainui to Aotearoa.
Torere - After her aunt
nui a rua - The cave where Hinetorere was buried (an historic site on the island of Maui, Hawaii)