The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 10, Issue 8 (November 1, 1935)
Pongakawa:
Pongakawa:
Ponga = the fern-tree Cyathea deal-bata; kawa = unpleasant to the taste, bitter. Kawa was also a ceremony in which a sprig or branch of a shrub, sometimes a small plant pulled up, used in house-opening ceremonies.