Nga wai hono i te po annointed as 8th Maori monarch

Kiingi Tuheetia has taken his final journey, carried up the steep incline of the Taupiri Maunga by members of the Taniwharau and Turangawaewae rugby league clubs alongside rope handlers from the Raungaiti Rugby club- and his body finally laid to rest. It comes after tens of thousands of mourners gathered gathered at the Turangawaewae marae and alongside the Waikato river on a stunning spring day to bid farewell. Earlier, Nga wai hono i te po was annointed the eighth Maori monarch - succeeding her father Tuheitia. She becomes the second woman to head the Kiingitanga - the first was her grandmother Te Atai-rangi-kaahu - and at 27 she is also the second youngest. Pokere Paewai reports from Tuurangawaewae Marae.