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Tāmaki-makau-rau

1. (location) Auckland.

Therefore, it is correct that we of Tamaki-makau-rau, who invited the first Governor to Waitemata, should greet his successor and again utter that song of our ancestor Titai. Link here Nā reira e tika ana kia tūtaki tātou o Tāmaki-makau-rau, i pōwhiri ai i te Kāwana tuatahi ki te Waitematā, ki tana piki tūranga, ka waiata anō ai i tērā waiata a tō tātou tupuna, a Titai. /

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