Tuwhare's son, Rob Tuwhare, and other members of the Hone Tuwhare Charitable Trust arrived in Kaka Point last night, and plan to tidy up the site today before the meeting tomorrow.
The trust was formed in July 2010 to buy Tuwhare's crib and restore it for use as a writers' residency - the first to be established in the home of a Maori writer.
''Some of the trustees haven't been to Kaka Point.''
Mr Tuwhare said the project was expected to cost about $1 million for the restoration of the crib, connecting sewerage, and building a house on the same site.
The house would provide accommodation for the resident writer's family when visiting, and also include a visitors' centre which would be open to the public and available for school visits.
The project nearly ended before it began, until an Auckland-based private family trust stepped in to save the crib from being sold on the open market in 2012.
The Takutai Trust offered to buy the property on behalf of the trust, and still owned the crib today, Mr Tuwhare said.
The Otago Daily Times understands the Takutai Trust plans to gift the crib to the Hone Tuwhare Charitable Trust once the project is completed.
''It has taken us a while to get a good group of people together.''
Tuwhare lived the last 16 years of his life in the weatherboard, one-bedroom seaside crib, after moving to Kaka Point in 1992.
The 1969 and 1974 University of Otago Robert Burns Fellow and 1999 New Zealand Te Mata Poet Laureate died in Dunedin, aged 85, in January 2008.
''Otago was pretty good to Dad ... He loved it down there - loved the scenery, the people, the sea, and the kaimoana [seafood].''
Last year, Governor-General Sir Jerry Mateparae was named trust patron.
The public meeting will be held at the Kaka Point Community Centre at 10am tomorrow.
