Plaque Wording: This memorial commemorates the arrival in the Waitemata Harbour of the Tainui Canoe under its Commander Hoturoa, and which made its landfall near this site. Tainui was one of the seven canoes of the Migration Fleet of the Maori people circa 1350 A.D. The bird on the orb was presented to Devonport by King Koroki on behalf of the Maori people. It is a replica of the sacred bird image named Korotangi - "Weeping Dove" - which was brought on the canoe on its journey from Hawaiki, the former homeland of the Maori. This memorial was erected by the Devonport Council November 1959