NGĀPUHI LANDMARK OFFICIALLY RECOGNISED AS WĀHI TAPU

[Kiwi Frontline]

NGĀPUHI LANDMARK OFFICIALLY RECOGNISED AS WĀHI TAPU

A significant landmark in the Bay of Islands, held in high regard by Māori, has been officially recognised by Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga as a wāhi tapu. 

Te Tino a Taiamai is a prominent rock sacred to the hapū of Taiamai of Ngāpuhi. It has now been added to the New Zealand Heritage list. 

The Heritage Pouhere Taonga Act defined wāhi tapu as places sacred to Māori in the traditional, spiritual, religious, ritual or mythological sense.....

www.maoritelevision.com/news/regional/ngapuhi-landmark-officially-recognised-wahi-tapu

[second-class-citizen]

....and it's taken them over a hundred years to determine this rock is significant!!! Utter BS. Stoneage third world NZ, here we come!