Ngāti Hinepare, Ngāti Māhu, Ngāti Matepū, Ngāti Paarau, Ngāi Tahu Ahi, Ngāi Tāwhao, Ngāti Tū, Ngāi Te Ruruku, Ngāti Kahungunu, Kahungunu of the many winds, this is my greeting, this is my lament. This is my lament to our dead, to the frequent deaths of this time, to the old people who have cleared the way for you to bring this work to completion today. Therefore, it is right to lament, to acknowledge and to farewell them. Therefore, to the dead of this time, to those who have died in the many years that have before, to those who have held the authority and the life force of this Ahuriri claim, this is my lament. Go, go, go forth. Go forth upon the storied pathway forged by the many before you. Farewell to beyond Reitū, beyond Reiao on the horizon, to where the multitudes are gathered, to Pleiades; to you all who now rest in peace, farewell, farewell, farewell.