1 He Anakena	4 Tagaroa uri	7 Tua haro	10 Vaitu nui
Same as the previous month.	Cleaning up of the fields. Fishing is no longer taboo. Festival of thanksgiving (hakakio) and presents of fowl.	Fishing. Because of the strong sun very little planting is done.	Planting of sweet potatoes.
2 Hora iti	5 Ko Ruti	8 Tehetu'upú	11 Vaitu potu
Planting of plants growing above the ground (i.e., bananas, sugarcane, and all types of trees). Good time to fish for eel along the shore.	Cleaning of the banana plantations, but only in the morning since the sun becomes too hot later in the day. Problems with drought. Good month for fishing and the construction of houses (because of the long days).	Like the previous month. Some sweet potatoes are planted where there are a lot of stones (pu).	Beginning of the cold season. No more planting. Fishing is taboo, except for some fishing along the beach. Harvesting of paper mulberry trees (mahute). Making of tapa capes (nua).
3 Hora nui	6 Ko Koró	9 Tarahao	12 He Maro (June)
Planting of plants growing below the ground (i.e., sweet potatoes, yams, and taro). A fine spring month.	Because of the increasing heat, work ceases in the fields. Time for fishing, recreation, and festivities. The new houses are occupied (reason for the festivities). Like the previous month, a good time for surfing (ngaru) on the beach of Hangaroa O Tai.	Sweet potatoes are planted in the morning; fishing is done in the afternoon.	Because of the cold weather, nothing grows (tupu meme), and there is hardly any work done in the fields. Hens grow an abundance of feathers, which are used for the festivities. The time of the great festivities begins, also for the father-in-law (te ngongoro mo te hungavai). There is much singing (riu).

According to Metoro's manu rere at Ca1-22 he may have meant the warm and light season was over. The spirit bird of breath had to leave at the end of his term, but later, at a new beginning, manu rere would return:

"... Then the spirit was gathered in. And this was the chant for that work:

Let the spirit of the man be gathered to the world of being, the world of light. / Then see. Placed in the body is the flying bird, the spirit-breath. / Then breathe! / Sneeze, living spirit, to the world of being, the world of light. / Then see. Placed in the body is the flying bird, the breath. / Be breathing then, great Tu. Now live! Then man existed, and the progeny of Tu increased ..." (Antony Alpers, Legends of the South Seas)

At his end the 'old bird' had to leave in a canoe together with his relatives:

"... the first month of the Moriori year, was named Rongo (Lono). On the first of the new year the Moriori launched a small canoe to Rongo, although they built and used only rude craft for their fishing excursions. The canoe was manned by twelve figures symbolizing the personifications of the twelve months. Sometimes twenty-four figures were placed in the canoe, and Skinner interprets the additional twelve as representing the female counterparts of the months. As an old Maori once remarked. 'Everything has its female counterpart.'

... A curious diversion appears in the month list of the people of Porapora and Moorea in the Society Islands, which sheds light on the custom of the Moriori who sometimes placed 24 figures in the canoe which they dispatched seaward to the god Rongo on new years day. The names of the wives of the months are included, indicating that other Polynesians besides the Chatham Islanders personified the months ..." (Makemson, a.a.)