Tonight: Kawhena (Eru) Paenga, 85 years old. Like the people of the local Te Horo district, his parents farmed dairy cows and sent the milk for processing at the Ngāti Porou Dairy Factory located in Ruatorea. We also learn that he had a foster brother and that they both lived with their grandparents in a humble, clay-floor kāuta.
A series of conversations profiling some of our last remaining male elders, focusing on the transition of Maori to the present day.