I taiapotia ake ai e te mahara ēnei kupu, he nui nō te pōuri me te mamae o te ngākau mōna kua wehe atu nei i a tātau, nāna nei i māturu iho ai te roimata ki runga ki a ia (TPH 18/1/1904:6). / These words are retained in the memory because of the great sorrow and pain we feel for he who has left us and for whom the tears are shed.

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Kaua e taiapohina ngā pukapuka nā māu anake. / Don't take all those books for yourself.

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I titoa te taiapo mō te tamaiti rangatira ki te whakaako i taua tamaiti ki ngā kōrero a tōna iwi, ki ngā mate hei ngaki māna, ki ōna tātai whakaheke, ki ōna whenua me ērā tū āhuatanga. / A lullaby was composed for a chiefly child to teach that child the tribe's stories, the deaths to be avenged, his lineages, his lands and those types of things.

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