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The Aotea meeting house (front) and Te Waipounamu buildings were erected for the Kotahitanga (Māori parliament) which sat at Papawai marae in 1897 and 1898. The form of Aotea evokes a traditional Māori meeting house, with a gabled roofline and deep entrance porch. The buildings were damaged in a storm in 1934 and later demolished.
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