Postcard of the interior of the meeting house:
"Interior of the Meeting House of Hotunui: Lighting used to be from fires on the floor, and these would cause paua shell eyes of the carved figures, which represent ancestors, to gleam in the flickering light."

Postcard of the meeting house:
"Hotunui: A meeting house for tribal assemblies and the entertainment of guests. Named after the ancestor of the Ngati-Maru people of Thames."

THE MEETING HOUSE HOTUNUI, at Thames.
Moved from Thames to the Auckland War Museum approx 1925
Page 102: Thames & the Coromandel Peninsula 2000 years by Zelma & John Williams
Williams Publishers Thames 1994