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Source: Auckland Council Te Kawerau ā Maki, in partnership with Auckland Council and a member of the original settler Bethells family, have finally acquired ancestral land at Te Henga/Bethells Beach in the Waitākere Ranges for the building of a new marae and ‘kāinga whakahirahira’ or settlement of significance. Te Kawerau ā Maki have been without a formal marae and papakāinga since the mid-20 th century when their last remaining lands at Waiti (Te Henga) were alienated. The hunt for suitable land for a Te Kawerau marae goes back to the early 1990s, and negotiations ov...

Chris McKeen/Stuff Te Kawerau ā Maki have acquired ancestral land at Te Henga/Bethells Beach where they can build a marae (File photo). Auckland-based iwi Te Kawerau ā Maki have finally acquired land at Te Henga/Bethells Beach to build a marae and kāinga whakahirahira (settlement of significance). Te Kawerau ā Maki have been without a formal marae and papakāinga since the mid-20th century, when the ownership of their last remaining lands at Waiti (Te Henga) were transferred. But in partnership with Auckland Council and a member of the original settler Bethells family, they have acquir...