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TRANSLATIONS
The reason why a 'kuhane station' should be regarded as beginning already one glyph before a position equal to a multiple of 59, is perhaps to make a mark in form of two flanking glyphs:
The Polynesian way is to save the precision of an appellation to the last 'word', here the glyphs one position after those at multiples of 59. The main 'word' comes first, the determinant after. The 'names' of the 59 stations appears to be - I think - documented in the 'determinant positions' (Gb1-7 etc). Let us try out these ideas (also that we must begin with a 'preliminary word' one glyph ahead of the one which is located at a multiple of 59) on the set of 4 stations at the other side of Te Pei:
With the exception of Hanga Takaure the determinant idea is given support by the glyphs. As to Hanga Takaure the lack may be mine rather than the text's. Or else the series ends beyond One Tea. Hua Reva suggests we should focus on 4 glyphs, that our model is good. 4 + 4 = 8 lunar double-months is equal to 236 nights. A 'season' is 8 lunar double-months. Te Pou initiates the 2nd such 'season, at number 9 * 29.5 = 265.5:
I have added one more column, because 265.5 (etc) lies between two glyphs. The 'determinant' (name) glyph apparently comes one glyph after 266 (etc). But I cannot recognize any name at Gb4-5 or Gb6-2. Maybe these two glyphs (at multiples of 29.5 + 1.5) did not have any name known to the creator of G. The span of attention for the reader surely must be greater than 5 glyphs, though. A clear example is offered by One Tea, which probably ends with Gb8-5 (leaving 25 glyphs at the end of side b free for other purposes):
The 'net' of 29.5 appears not be as tightly woven as that of 59, and I suspect One Tea begins at Gb8-1 and is cut short before reaching next lunar month. At this point attention should be drawn to how the lunar months are coordinated with the structure of glyph lines. One Tea (at 15 * 29.5 = 442.5) knits together the end of b7 with the beginning of b8. If we create a table of accumulated glyph numbers (counted from Gb8-30) the result is thought-provoking:
The sums at the beginning of side a seem to be related to fundamental measures (60 = 5 * 12 and 84 = 7 * 12), while on side b 354 points to Hatinga Te Kohe (6 * 59), 383 to Roto Iri Are (13 * 29.5 = 383.5), and 442 to One Tea (15 * 29.5 = 442.5). Both Roto Iri Are and One Tea are located with one 'foot' at the end of a glyph line (b5 respectively b7) and one 'foot' at the beginning of a glyph line (b6 respectively b8). Tama (7 * 59 = 413) is located at the beginning of line b7, Akahanga (11 * 29.5 = 324.5) at the beginning of line b4, Hua Reva (5 * 59 = 295) at the beginning of line b3, and Te Pou (9 * 29.5 = 265.5) not very far from the beginning of line b2:
Te Pou is not as close to the beginning of line b2 as the other examples. Te Pei (4 * 59) is more close to the beginning of line b1 than Te Pou is to the beginning of b2:
With 8 + 8 = 16 glyphs lines and 8 + 8 multiples of 59 there will of course be a tendency to arrange each multiple of 59 within one glyph line. When this evidently is not the case, as e.g. with Te Pei beginning later than at Gb1-1, it can be a sign. But it can also be the result of difficulties in accommodating stations into glyph lines. In the latter case, the most important of the stations should have priority, which certainly explains Hatinga Te Kohe at the end of glyph line b4:
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