19 June, 2025
Stars aligning He’s Māori and he’s nine. She’s seven and she’s Pakeha. Katikati residents Pewee Tewhakaara-Matangi and Eden Cave are looking forward to their whole community coming together tonight, June 19, and tomorrow morning, June 20, to celebrate Matariki.
At 5pm tonight, June 19, Te Rereatukahia Marae is hosting the ‘Reading of the Stars’ – an event for everybody and anybody to gather and listen to Ngairo Eruera and Haimona Brown, who will help us connect and understand the star cluster Pleiades.
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Then the following morning, at 5.30am, Friday, June 20, the third Katikati Matariki Dawn service will take place at Te Whareorahi Reserve at the end of Park Road. The community is invited to come along, huddle around braziers and wait for Matariki to rise just above the horizon
in the eastern sky just before dawn. Event-goers are encouraged to utilise a free park-and-ride service which will operate from Katikati Primary School to the Park Rd reserve from 5am onwards. Read more on page 3. Photo / Merle Cave