Porourangi meeting house (image) Share this item. Aoraki/Mount Cook You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. Dated: 1888. Thanks to the foresight of a group of women on the scholarship committee, who identified the need for Maori conservators, she gained a scholarship to study in Canberra for a Bachelor of Applied Science in conservation of cultural materials, specialising in paper . Porourangi Meeting House, built in 1888, designed by Major Ropata Wahawaha. [1] It is part of the wider Ruatoria-Raukumara statistical area.