Rehua Marae
the city’s marae, the city's urban Māori community — under the korowai of mana whenua Ngāi Tūāhuriri
the city’s marae
The record
- Wharenui
- Te Whatu Manawa Māoritanga o Rehua
- Wharekai
- Te Hemo i te Raki
- It serves
- the city's urban Māori community — under the korowai of mana whenua Ngāi Tūāhuriri
- Iwi
- Ngāi Tahu · pan-tribal
- Address
- 79 Springfield Road
- Street
- Springfield Road
- Suburb
- St Albans
- District
- Christchurch City
- In this archive
- the register entry →
What the directories say
The city's urban marae — grown from a Methodist mission hostel for young Māori coming to Christchurch under the 1950s trade training scheme. Its whare tīpuna opened in December 1960 — the first fully carved wharenui raised in the South Island in over a century — and the district plan's register entry for it sits in this archive.
The marae’s own kōrero
The marae’s own telling belongs to its people, these doors go to their sites and the directories they speak through.
In the archive
- Documents naming it on the shelf →
- The record’s own search for it →
- Its register entry, in depth →
- The suburb it stands in →
A document a search names is a lead worth reading, not a claim the site makes.
The roll beside it
The kāinga and pā the record names nearest it, Ōtautahi — Tautahi's kāinga (1.2 km) · Puāri Pā (1.5 km).
Nearest on the roll by distance, proximity, not kinship; each marae’s own kōrero lives with its people.
The green nearby 2
Parks whose drawn outline sits within 400 m, measured to the outline itself, so a place on a big reserve’s edge still counts.
The register nearby 5
Heritage-register places within 300 m of the marae’s point, proximity, not a claim of place.
The reports nearby
763 council reports pinned within 250 m of the place, most often Water & drains and Rubbish & dumping, 619 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Water Leak
Hazard, vehicle
Water Leak
Water Leak
Hazard, vehicle
Dumped Rubbish
Dumped Rubbish
Dumped Rubbish
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Damaged RoadGetting there
The nearest stop the Metro map carries, measured to the pin, not the door.
Questions, answered briefly
79 Springfield Road, St Albans, Christchurch, on the map →.
Te Whatu Manawa Māoritanga o Rehua, the wharekai is Te Hemo i te Raki, as the directories the marae speaks through state it.
Iwi: Ngāi Tahu, pan-tribal.
the city’s marae, it serves the city's urban Māori community — under the korowai of mana whenua Ngāi Tūāhuriri. It stands in Christchurch City.
Sources: Rehua Marae — official site · Rehua Marae — Christchurch City Libraries Ti Kōuka Whenua · Te Whatu Manawa Maoritanga o Rehua and Setting — district plan schedule 499.
A directory, not a history: name, wharenui, affiliation and address as each rūnanga and the public directories state them. A listing is a lead, not a claim, each marae’s own kōrero lives with its people and is linked, not retold, here. Coordinates pin the marae site as the map layers and directories place it.