Dr Ranginui Walker

Ka tanuku ka tanuku

Te tihi o Makeo ka tanuku

Maturuturu noa te wai o aku kamo

Kotiritiri noa kotarara noa

Aue, te pane kotutitui, te pane koruturutu

E huri Ranginui tau atu ra

Ki tara wiwi, ki tara wawa

Tēnei te Kāhui Amokura e tangi nei

Tēnei Te Pōkai Tara e aue nei

Moe mai e Ra, waiho mai ra o tapuwae

Hei tauira whakapiki i ēnei ka mahue nei.

The Vice-Chancellors and the Māori Pro Vice Chancellors of New Zealand's eight universities collectively express our sincere sympathy at the passing and loss of Dr Ranginui Walker.

Our condolences to his immediate family, to Ngāti Whakatōhea and to Mātaatua waka.

This is a loss to the whole of the nation, and to the academic world.

Ranginui has been a pou turangi, a bastion for the advancement of Māori scholarship, and the contribution of Māori indigenous knowledge to the nation’s intellectual treasury.

We are saddened by his death, but comforted by his legacy.

Naia te mihi maioha te tuku atu nei.

He pou turangi ki te whenua

He pukainga matauranga ki te tahuhu.

Nā maua

Professor Harlene Hayne, Chair of Universities New Zealand - Te Pōkai Tara and Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith,  Chair of Te Kāhui Amokura