Ka haere tonu nga akoranga o rātou ma, mo ake tonu āke. The teachings of those that have gone on, will go on forever.
J Ferris-Delemare
Kōkiri Marae is near the bank of a river, at the seaward edge of a valley the Orongorongo mountains to the east the city of Wellington west, across Whanganui a Tara and the open sea to the south.