Track 3 from the 1978 album Te reo o Ma-wai-hakona: the voice of Ma-wai-hakona, by Upper Hutt kapa haka group Māwai Hakona. 'Kia ora e te Tairawhiti' is an action song by Dovey Katene-Horvath. It was performed at the Royal Polynesian Festival opened by Queen Elizabeth II at Gisborne in 1977.
