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This year s celebration of the birthday of Rātana founder Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana has been seen fewer followers make the annual pilgrimage, but morehu who did attend say they re committed to the faith. The blustering winds at the pā mirrored the conflict between factions of the church that have 2021 seen this years annual celebrations restricted to morehu (followers). The only politicians present were Labour MPs Nanaia Mahuta and Adrian Ruruawhe, who is also the great-grandson of Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana. The marae committee originally said celebrations were to be one day only but the church executive said that decision was supposed to lie with them, resulting in no manuhiri (guest) being invited to the pā. ....