1. 'Terina, Terina Pomare' is sometimes sung instead of 'Terina, auë Terina.'

2. Terina or Te Rina? Note the different names on the record tracks below. The little girl was apparently named Terina Pomare (pronounced TE-ri-na PO-ma-re), and thus the song was originally titled "Terina" on the first recording Tommy Taurina made of it in 1975. But the middle syllables are stressed in the song, "Te-RI-na Po-MA-re," and when Howard Morrison recorded it in 1982, he titled it as it sounded, "Te Rina" and Ms Pomare now calls herself Te Rina.

3. Kaua e huri kë. (Don't turn away). This is a reference to a young sapling tree growing straight and tall, figure of speech telling the young child "Don't lose your way in life".
4. Taku nei raukura (my most precious feather). In other words "You are my special spiritual treasure." A feather (of the white heron? ...or of the albatross?) was rare and treasured. ie Terina Pomare was a child of an esteemed family, to be treasured.
   
   

   Parihaka prophets Te Whiti & Tohu

5. Tïtapa e (sacred family tree) According to Williams' dictionary this is a regional figure of speech. Usually rau o tïtapa is a white feather head adornment.

The Raukura conveys this message:

Thus the three elements as represented by the Raukura (which has three feathers) are:

• An acknowledgement of spirituality and spiritual forces.
• The importance of making peace within yourself and with others.
• The necessity of maintaining goodwill, despite conflict.

And so Taranaki tribes wear the Raukura (albatross feathers) on their heads to demonstrate their continued commitment to resolve conflict through peaceful means.

From the Raukura webpage of the Te Atiawa tribe

His home is in Nuhaka. He has written many other Maori songs, including Tirama mai.

He was the director of the Center for Polynesian Cultural Studies, in Hawaii, from about 1960 on. In the 1990s he was a tutor at Manukau Polytechnic's Nga Mahi a Tane Rore, a course which gave young Maori and Polynesian people the basis for a career in the entertainment industry.

He has served as a National Kapa Haka Festival judge and he has taken Maori concert groups to cultural festivals in Europe and the USA.

Te Rina has had many years of experience in Polynesian dance, music, and knowledge. For most of those years, she had been teaching at a University level in Performing Arts.

A member of a distinguished family, including Sir Maui Pomare, (below), she was born in 1973 and was trained by her maternal grandfather Tommy Taurima in Maori performance arts from a young age. She went on to work with him at the Polynesian Cultural Center in Hawaii, assisting him in choreographing songs there. At the same time she developed her knowledge of other Polynesian cultures.

She then taught at various institutions around New Zealand, including the Manukau Institute of Technology and, more recently, the Te Awamutu campus of Te Wananga O Aotearoa. She trained students at these institutions in the performing arts, and then took her groups all over Europe and the U.S.

Since 2004 she has spent some time teaching Polynesian dance and music at Salt Lake City, in the USA.

Prof. Eru Pomare (1943-1995), was Dean of the Wellington School of Medicine. He made outstanding contributions to the fields of gastro-enterology, clinical research, medical training and Maori health.

Maui Ormond Pomare, (1941-1995) Eru's brother, was a Plimmerton farmer and a board member of the national museum. He devoted himself to retrieving mokomokai (tatooed heads) and other taonga from museums overseas.

NOTE: There is also another unrelated family, from Northland, with the Pomare name,.
Whetoi (b.? fl.1814, d.1826), allied to Honi Heke, was impressed by the civilizing efforts of Pomare the newly Christian king of Tahiti. So he took the name Pomare when he himself was baptised. Whetoi is now known in history books as Pomare I. DNZB biography