Ngā Rauropi Whakaoranga

In the story the expectant Whaki-tapui desires and eats some of her own taro. Her sisters-in-law tell her husband Paihau that she has eaten his seed taro. Whaki-tapui used the unfair accusation as a reason to go and seek Turereao of Whanganui whom she'd heard of. She found Turereao gathering kākaho (toetoe culms) at Kokohuia for building a house by the Whanganui River. The culms were also used for poling canoe along the river.