Tapu Te Ranga | Island Bay closing early

Tapu Te Ranga | Island Bay Library will close at 5:30 today due to staff illness. The afterhours slots will be open and we expect to be open as usual tomorrow.

Systems maintenance - Wednesday 23 July

From 8.30am-9am you may experience a short outage as we undertake some work on this website - we apologise if you experience any impact. NB. The online library catalogue and access to your library card will not be affected by this work.

Tainui - Tainui

Ko Mōkau ki runga
Ko Tāmaki ki raro
Ko Mangatoatoa ki waenganui.
Pare Hauraki, Pare Waikato
Te Kaokaoroa-o-Pātetere.


Mōkau is above
Tāmaki is below
Mangatoatoa is between.
The boundaries of Hauraki, the boundaries of Waikato
To the place called ‘the long armpit of Pātetere’.

-- (Waikato, Hauraki)

Waka -

Tainui

Iwi/Hapu -

Many, such as Waikato, Pare-Hauraki, Ngati Raukawa, Ngati Maniapoto, Ngati Haua, Ngati Toarangatira.

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