Te Ao Hou was a bilingual quarterly published by the Maori Affairs Department, and printed by Pegasus Press, 'to provide,' as its first issue said, 'interesting and informative reading for Maori homes ….. like a marae on paper, where all questions of interest to the Maori can be discussed'.
'Surely
the best of all the Maori
stories', is how Margaret Orbell, then editor of the magazine Te Ao Hou, described the tale of the
impetuous 17th-century lovers Ponga and Puhihuia.
