Ka tae mai te manuhiri, ka tīmata pea te āwangawanga: kua mā te whare? He nui rānei te kai? Kei te pai ngā kapu? Engari ehara te manaakitanga i te whakaaturanga o te rawa. Ko te tino pātai, kua rangona rānei te tangata, kua noho haumaru rānei ia, kua whakanuia rānei tōna mana?
I roto i te ao Māori, he tikanga tawhito te whakatau me te whāngai i te manuhiri. Kei te marae ōna kawa me ōna tikanga motuhake. I te kāinga, ka taea tonu te kawe i te wairua o te manaakitanga mā ngā mahi māmā, me te whakaute ki ngā tikanga o te tangata whenua.
Whakaritea he wāhi
Kāore e hiahiatia kia nui te whare. Whakawāteatia he tūru, he wāhi mō ngā koti me ngā hū, ā, whakamāramatia kei hea te wharepaku.
Mō te kaumātua me te tangata hauā, tirohia ngā arawhata, te mahana me te wāhi noho.
Tonoa, kaua e whakapae
Pātai mēnā he mate pāwera kai, he tikanga kai, he hiahia ā-ahurea rānei. Kaua e kī māu tonu e mōhio ki ngā hiahia katoa.
Ko te pātai māhaki he tohu whakaute.
He iti te kai, he nui te aro
Ka taea te manaaki mā te kapu tī, te parāoa, te huarākau, tētahi kai māmā rānei. Ko te tohatoha me te noho tahi te mea nui.
Kaua te manaaki e waiho hei taumahatanga pūtea mō te whānau.
Whakarongo ki te kōrero
Kaua e noho noa te manuhiri hei kaiwhakarongo ki ngā kōrero a te tangata whenua. Hoatu he wā kia kōrero ia, ā, kaua e tirotiro waea i a ia e kōrero ana.
Mā te whakarongo ka tipu te hononga.
Tiakina te mana me te tūmataiti
Kaua e tango whakaahua, e tuku kōrero ki te ipurangi rānei me te kore whakaaetanga. He kōrero anō mā te tēpu, he kōrero anō mā te ao whānui.
Mēnā ka puta he kōrero taumaha, kaua e tere ki te whakatika, ki te tohutohu rānei.
Ka hoki te manaakitanga
Ehara i te nama tauhokohoko, engari ka rere te manaaki i waenga i ngā tāngata. I tētahi rā ko koe te tangata whenua; āpōpō ko koe te manuhiri.
Mā te whakarite wāhi, te tuku kai me te whakarongo ka kī te whare i te aro. Ko te whare tino pai, ko te whare e taea ai te tangata te noho hei tangata.
