E74 Dr Malcolm Patterson - EIC - Ngāti Whātua Orākei [pdf, 2 MB]
...Ōrākei anticipates continuing to work closely with the Auckland Waterfront Development Agency in the selection and bestowing of such names. ‘Named features present a cultural grid over the land which provides meaning, order and stability to human existence without which we are strangers on the land, lost souls with nowhere to attach ourselves.’ Professor Hirini Moko Mead The whenua of Auckland is part of the body of Papatūānuku, the earth mothe...