
Historic Tīrau marae site redeveloped
For more than 30 years Tīrau’s Tapapa Marae sat vacant amongst farmland. Now it’s home to the South Waikato’s first rammed earth wharenui (meeting house). It comes after the Department of Internal Affairs granted $1.34 million for the first of three stages of the marae’s reconstruction earlier this year. A wharenui was built on the […]