Helmut Modlik & Callum Katene on the return of Whitireia Maunga

Ngati Toa have regained land at Whitireia in Porirua 177 years after it was gifted to the Anglican Church under the promise that a school would be built for their children. But that promise was never honoured and the land was not returned to the iwi. Recently Tu Runanga o Toa Rangatira bought 53 hectares of land at Whitereia from Radio New Zealand and yesterday morning a ceremony was held to commemorate the return of their whenua. RNZ's Maori News Journalist Pokere Paewai was there and afterwards he sat down with the chair of Te Runanga o Toa Rangatira, Callum Katene, and the Kaihautu-Chief Executive, Helmut Modlik.