Te Kotuku - Koanga 2012

PAANUI KOANGA 2012

Te Kōtuku rerenga whā He mihi kau ana, i raro i ngā kāwai atua, kāwai ariki a o tātou tūpuna mātua, ko Iō Matua nui i te Rangi, te mārire, mai te Rangi, ki te mata o te Whenua, te āiō, te hā o Papatūānuku, i nuku ai a o tātou mate huhua, hurinoa ngā marae tō pito, o ngā Kāhui Maunga e tū ake nei, ki ngā pāpāringa o te kōpua kānapanapa o Taupō nui a Tia.

Ko Tūwharetoa te Iwi, hei tangi ki ngā mate.

Ko Tūwharetoa te Iwi, hei mihi ki ngā iwi o te motu i waenganui i a mātou.

Ko Tūwharetoa te mana motuhake, te rangatiratanga, mai ngā tūpuna mātua.

Tēnā rā koutou ngā uri o Tūwharetoa!

Ko Tongariro te Maunga, hei tuara kia rātou kua ngaro ki tua o te ārai.

Kei te pāoho whānui ngā mihi ki runga i a koe e Timoti. I tū pakuhiwi tahi ki te maha ki te tautoko i ngā kaupapa ā motu, ā iwi rānei.

I runga i tō kaha i hono pai te tini me te maha ahakoa ko wai, ahakoa nō hea.

I to kaha hoki ki te manaaki i to tuakana, tō tātou Arikii a Tumu, me te utaina i wētehi o ngā

Inside this issue of Te Kōtuku we look at the current freshwater and MOM (mixed ownership model) work being undertaken by the Board. We’ll also look at developments relating to the Upper Waikato River and the Lake Taupō fishery, as well as some of the education and cultural initiatives the Board is currently working on.

After a sojourn the Tūwharetoa Māori Trust Board pānui Te Kōtuku, has been re-launched and will be published

He Maimai Aroha mo Timoti te Heuheu Tēnei te ara o ngā tūpuna o ngā atua.

Tēnei te ara o ngā tauira o ngā tawhito He ara ki Hawaiki-nui, ki Hawaiki-roa, He ara ki Hawaiki-taketake nā Ruamatua e...i!

quarterly, with each season.

taumahatanga ki runga i a koe hei kawe. Koinei kei te noho mokemoke tātou i tō ngaronga. Āu nā puku mahi me te nohonga roa ki runga i te Poari Kaitiaki Māori ō Ngāti Tūwharetoa. Kei te kite, he wāhanga ngaro kei waenganui i a mātou, mā wai hei whakakī?

E te karanga maha, ngā mihi nui ki a koe, ki tō whānau hoki. Nō reira e Timoti okioki atu, moe mai te rangatira i te moe roa. E turuturu nei ngā roimata. Tau atu i kōnei.

Inside this Issue: Update from the Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer He maimai aroha mō Timoti te Heuheu Update on MOM and Freshwater mahi Cultural and Education updates

Next Issue: Raumati Out in January 2013 For feedback please contact us by email on web@tuwharetoa.co.nz

CHAIRMAN’S KORERO After a long journey Te Kotuku has returned and will be just one way we will improve our communication with you.

I am committed to bringing you my perspective of the work, endeavours and vision from the Board of the Tūwharetoa Māori Trust Board. This issue seeks to update you on some of the work of the Trust Board – however I would like to focus on governance related matters.

Over the last 12 months there has been a lot of change.

Last year the Trust Board endorsed the organisational review which highlighted a number of important issues for the Trust Board and led to the appointment of the organisations first CEO. In February 2012 the Board election also brought new members to the Board. Reluctantly, and with heaps of soul searching, the newly appointed Board also accepted the resignation of Sir Tumu te Heuheu in July.

Following the resignation of Sir Tumu I was appointed Chairman, the Hon Georgina te Heuheu as Deputy Chairman and Te Kanawa Pitiroi as Pou Tikanga by the Board.

While the resignation of Sir Tumu from the Trust Board may have prompted some to doubt the direction of our organisation the Board took comfort in the following sentiments from his letter of resignation: “I recall the reflections of may late father Sir Hepi and I know I share the thoughts of my predecessors in acknowledging the extraordinary role the Trust Board has played in, and advancing, the best interests of Ngāti Tūwharetoa... Despite my resignation, I confirm that am most willing to continue to lend my support to the Board on matters where our objectives are mutually compatible and beneficial to the greater interests of Ngāti Tūwharetoa. Finally, I sincerely and respectfully wish the Board the very best in its immediate and future endeavours.”

The process of evolution and change continues; many of you may have seen the recently advertised vacancies within the Trust Board which will improve our ability to focus change and improve services to Ngāti Tūwharetoa. I and the Board support these organisational changes.

However, some fundamental organisational beliefs have not changed. Highest amongst those is our ongoing support and commitment to Sir Tumu and Ngāti Tūwharetoa.

Mauriora ki a tatou katoa John Bishara Chairman

CEO KORERO We have decided to rejuvenate Te Kotuku as a means of improving our “on line” communication presence and encourage feedback from you on those matters that are important to Ngāti Tūwharetoa..

The last six months, since joining the Trust Board, have been ‘full-on’ and no less challenging than I expected. It’s an honour, which carries with it a high level of responsibility, to work for your people - and I know this is a sentiment that is shared across the team here at the Trust Board.

The Trust Board is progressing a number of major kaupapa including: • continuing engagement with Mighty River Power and Genesis Energy - whose power generation activities utilise our taonga lakes • continuing support for the Tuwharetoa Cultural Knowledge project and the Pou Tikanga programme • appointment of four Leadership positions at the Trust Board (for which a high level of interest was received) • reviewing the Trust Board’s strategic plan which will feed into next year’s annual plan • reviewing the iwi services provided by the Trust Board In the next edition I would like to discuss kotahitanga and consolidation amongst our iwi entities. Finally, I would also like to thank all those people who received an education grant and took the time to write a thank you email or letter to the Trust Board.

Tamarapa Lloyd CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

The Tūwharetoa Māori Trust Board in partnership with the Department of Conservation, is undertaking a project to explore future opportunities for Taupō Sport Fishery. Whether you fish or not, we are interested in hearing your views.

To do this complete the online survey at www.doc.govt.nz/taupofishery and have your say about the future of the Taupō Sports Fishery. Everyone who takes part in the survey goes into the draw to win one of two amazing fishing weekends for two, provided by some well-known local fishing lodges. Tongariro Lodge and Turangi Bridge Motel have provided weekend accommodation packages as prizes. Hunting and Fishing Taupō have also provided a number of $100 vouchers to give away.

The survey closes on 12 November 2012 so make sure you complete it before then!

SHARES PLUS HUI AT WAIRAKEI Shares-plus was recommended by the Waitangi Tribunal as a way to possibly resolve iwi rights and interests in water by providing shares in the large hydropower generators that are being put up for partial sale.

Those shares could carry other additional prescribed rights to the iwi shareholder. While the Crown is consulting on the shares-plus option there is little support for it within the National party.

Shares-plus is it not an optimal outcome for Tūwharetoa as it fails

TMTB/DOC SPORT FISHERY SURVEY to resolve in any meaningful way the ancestral connection and responsibility between Tūwharetoa and our taonga but could usefully form part of a suite of options.

Ariki Tumu te Heuheu provided an opening address and laid out Tūwharetoa concerns in relation to the proposal as did many other iwi attending the hui.

The Trust Board made a submission on the shares-plus proposal before it closed on 5 October 2012 and assisted other iwi to also make submissions.

FRESHWATER UPDATE The hui called by Kingi Tuheitia at Tūrangawaewae on 13 September 2012 provided an opportunity for the NZ Māori Council, Iwi Leaders Group and claimants to discuss issues concerning freshwater issues.

Resolutions were presented toward the end of the hui, which sought a platform for a united voice among Māori and the mandating of a group of selected representatives to negotiate a pan-Māori settlement with the Crown.

The following day, the quarterly meeting of the Iwi Chairs Forum at Tūrangawaewae Marae was held. Over 45 Iwi Chairs were in attendance and two of the major issues discussed that day was ‘water’ and the ‘mixed ownership model’. The first item on the agenda was the resolutions from the

day previous, which were not supported by the Iwi Chairs Forum. Rather, the Iwi Chairs Forum, passed unanimously to continue to engage with the Crown, in the context of the development of a new Freshwater Framework for Aotearoa and the utilization of ‘Ngā Matapono o te Wai.’

The development of a framework which will allow hapū and iwi to better manage freshwater within their rohe is important.

The health and wellbeing of our waterways is of the utmost importance, ensuring our rights to usage and allocation as hapū and iwi should For more information on the Land and Water be guaranteed. Tūwharetoa favours a direct Forum visit the site at: approach to the Crown. All indications are the http://www.landandwater.org.nz/ Government will reach a decision on the new freshwater regime sometime in the second quarter of next year.

The ‘Land and Water Forum’ LaWF is scheduled to provide a second and final report by early

The Pou Tikanga wānanga programme was started after prompting from hapū to help develop their paepae. Kawa and Tikanga Tūwharetoa are key discussion points, each wānanga providing participants the opportunity to share knowledge and hone their skills in the oratory arts such as whaikōrero, karanga and mōteatea.

In 2011, a pānui was sent out to all marae asking each of them to select and nominate members of their hapū to participate and attend each wānanga.

All wānanga are delivered in Te Reo and facilitated

by Te Kanawa Pitiroi, Paranapa Otimi and Kataraina Pitiroi. They are further supported by pakeke and kaumātua from each marae where wānanga are held.

POU TIKANGA TŪWHARETOA

If you haven’t registered your interest with your marae already, contact your marae secretary to do so.

For any further queries please contact Henare Kuru by email to henare@tuwharetoa.co.nz

FRESHWATER UPDATE Over the past few months Ngāti Tūwharetoa has been developing customary fishing regulations for the Upper Waikato River. This has been done in conjunction with Raukawa and Te Arawa River Iwi and the Ministry for Primary Industries.

Once complete the purpose of the regulations are to enable iwi to actively manage taonga fish species and customary fishing within the Upper Waikato River. The regulations will apply to the area extending downstream from Huka Falls to, and including, Lake Karapiro. In developing the regulations, the Upper River iwi have collectively agreed to manage the fisheries area as one area, reflective of the interconnectedness and holistic nature of the awa, working together to achieve jointly agreed outcomes.

November. This report will cover water quality, limit setting and allocation. The different factions around the LaWF table sit across a spectrum with recognition of iwi rights and interests at one end and no recognition at the other. While getting the different factions to agree to support a recommendation on iwi rights and interests was not possible LaWF did agree to make a statement supporting the resolution of iwi rights and interests as part of the new freshwater regime

To date there have been six wānanga held at various marae around the Ngāti Tūwharetoa rohe

at Waitetoko, Korohe, Te Rangiita, Rongomai, Pukawa and Waihi. A different kaupapa is chosen by facilitators at each wānanga, upon which kōrero on karanga, whaikōrero and waiata kīnaki is based.

These wānanga allow hapū to share their histories and knowledge with participants and also serve to support whakawhānaungatanga, strengthening hapū relationships and sustaining our ties with each other.

Attendance at each wānanga averages 40-50 people, which has been positive. It is envisaged that each participant will eventually become a Pou Tikanga for their respective marae, so that they may in turn grow the numbers of kaikaranga and kaikōrero upon their paepae. A further eight wānanga have been planned from October 2012 to June 2013. To participate simply register your interest with your marae or for any further queries please contact the Trust Board office.

Protecting, restoring and enhancing the fisheries resources of the Upper Waikato River in accordance with customary practices and respective tikanga and kawa of Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Raukawa and Te Arawa River Iwi, will be a key feature of this collaborative approach.

• providing advice for setting sustainable harvest levels (part of the TAC) for customary fish species; and • programming research and scientific information to support future management decisions.

Currently regulations allow the Upper River iwi to collectively manage the fisheries resources by employing a range of different management tools and actively participating in existing management processes. Management tools and existing processes include:

The regulations also provide for the establishment of a Fisheries Management Committee (FMC). The FMC is comprised of the Upper River iwi, supported by the Ministry for Primary Industries and is primarily an advisory body to support the Upper River iwi to achieve the outcome for the customary fishery (as noted above).

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issuing customary fishing authorisations to take, store, hold and transfer fish; proposing bylaws to the Minister to restrict or prohibit fishing, for the whole or part of the Upper Waikato River fisheries area;

Once drafting regulations are complete, public consultation will be undertaken.

EARLY CHILDHOOD KOHANGA REO SECONDARY SPECIAL NEEDS TERTIARY

EDUCATION GRANTS 2012 In conjunction with the Tūwharetoa Settlement Trust, the Board paid 1043 education grants totaling more than $400,000. At present the majority of grants are paid to tertiary students. The current grant and scholarship policy is currently under review. Any updated information will be available on our website: http://www.tuwharetoa.co.nz/iwi/educational-support/ grants-scholarships.htm

The next teacher PD day will be held at Hīrangi Marae in the next term.

The next Tūrangi teacher PD day will be held in December – call the Trust Board office for details.

PŪTAIAO WĀNANGA PĀPĀKAI I te tuatahi me mihi ki a koutou o Pāpākai Marae.

Nā koutou i manaaki, i tiaki, i tohatoha mātauranga ki a mātou ngā tauira o te taiao. Kei te mihi, kei te mihi!

Ahakoa he powhiri, he kaupapa manu, he kōrero whānui e pā ana ki te Ahi Tipua, ahakoa he tangi, nā koutou i whāngai, nā koutou i awhi, ahakoa he aha te kaupapa.

Kīkī te wiki kua pahure i ngā ngohe rapu mōhiotanga e pā ana ki te kaupapa matua, arā, te Taiao o Ngāti Tūwharetoa. E toru ngā wahanga na; he aha kei raro i a Papatūānuku, he aha kei waenganui i a rāua ko Ranginui, he aha anō kei runga i a Papa. Hīhiko ngā whakaaro a ngā tauira ki ngā ngohe o te hunga o Te Pū Ao arā ko GNS (Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences) me te whakaako mai i ngā tohunga o Ngāti Tūwharetoa. Tērā hoki te mātakitaki me te mahi i roto i ngā taiao o Rotoaira, o Whakapapa, o Tongariro awa, o Ruapehu maunga hoki. Nā reirā kua tutukihia te kaupapa o te wānanga. E ai ki ngā tauira, he wiki whakahirahira nā te whanaungatanga, nā ngā ngohe ā ringa, nā te mea he taiwhanga nui te taiao!

TŪWHARETOA CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE UPDATE

assisting hapū who have stories ready to be told in preparation for the next release of cultural knowledge. Some hapū have expressed the desire to tell more stories with a focus on tūpuna, another wishes to relate their experiences of the environment, another is focusing on telling who have made a difference, while another wishes to relate more about their immediate surroundings and some of the contemporary issues the hapū are facing.

Since the launch of the Kete Rauemi in March 2012, the Project team have been providing professional development training sessions to assist kaiako to find their way around the resource, then implement the content in their teaching programmes. Te Ara Bell from Taumarunui High School is one of the committed teachers in our rohe who sees the potential that Tūwharetoa Cultural Knowledge has to support student learning.

Located at the confluence of three iwi, Te Atihaunui ā Paparangi, Ngāti Maniapoto and Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Ara manages to include all three iwi in her teaching programmes as Head of Māori.

Kaiako have been able to express their teaching and enjoyment of Tūwharetoatanga through the Taiopenga which was recently held in Taupō in September. The song Horomatangi released as part of the resource kit was a resounding success. Whaea Arahi Wall of Taupō Community Kids Centre (above) and her tamariki and kaiako performed this on stage as did four other schools and centres on each of the two days of the festival. A great way to showcase local iwi curriculum!

On the hapū front, work continues with

TE TAIOPENGA O TŪWHARETOA

Nā reirā kua mutu mō tēnei tau, ka tiro tātou ki te tau e heke mai, tēra pea he wahanga whakataetae i roto rā i te Taiopenga, ā tōna wā ne!?!

Once again the sounds of kapa haka resonated from the Taupō Events Centre stage at the annual Tūwharetoa Taiopenga held in September.

Each year schools, Early Childhood Centres and Kohanga Reo showcase their performance skills with this year no exception as 40 groups performed poi, haka and action songs taught as part of their curriculum.

Haruru ana te atamira anō i ngā mahi a Tāne Rore arā te tū kapa haka a ngā kura o Ngāti Tūwharetoa rohe i te Mahuru kua hipa atu. I te taite me te paraire te 20 ki te 21 o Hepetema, i whakaatu mai te hunga kura mai i ngā nohinohi tae atu ki te wharekura i ngā taonga a kui mā a koro mā e pā ana ki te waiata ā ringa, te haka, te waiata mōteatea, te poi me te whakawātea.

Again too the sound of Te Reo o Tūwharetoa was heard from the MC’s right through the Centre to backstage in the dignitaries and kaumātua dining room and changing areas. Of particular note was the song ‘Ko Horomatangi’, recently released with the launch of the Tūwharetoa Cultural Knowledge Project, which delighted the audience as much as it did those singing it.

Ko wai rā i kii kua ngaro te reo o ngā tūpuna ināianei, nā ko te reo rangatira e rere ana i roto i te Events Centre i Taupō i te katoa o aua rā. Te hunga karere i runga i te atamira ko ngā akonga tawhito o Te Kura o Hīrangi, tae atu ki wharekai, ki te kauta, ki te hunga whakaatu mai ko te reo tēra i rangona e tātou! Kātahi te reka o te kapa haka o Tūwharetoa! Kātahi hoki te reka o taua waiata ‘Ko Horomatangi’ i puta mai ia i te Tūwharetoa Cultural Knowledge Project, he wahanga tautokohia e te Tūwharetoa Māori Trust Board.

The featured group this year came from the Junior school at Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Rakaumangamanga, Huntly who were named best group in this year’s national Primary School competition.

A height many will aspire to as we await a competition section in next year’s programme perhaps? We will just have to wait and see!

He roopu whakahirahira hoki i tū; ko te kura teina o Rakaumangamanga, nā rātou i toa i te whakataetae ā motu mō ngā kura tuatahi, te rawe hoki o ā rātou mahi i runga i te atamira! Tau kē Tainui waka!

Upcoming Events:

Tūwharetoa Health Services

Lake Taupō Forest Trust

Tūwharetoa Settlement Trust

• Lake Rotoaira Forest Trust Meeting - Saturday 1 December - Otukou Marae • Lake Taupo Forest Trust AGM - Saturday 8 December - Taupō, Bayview Resort Wairakei

• Tūwharetoa Settlement Trust AGM - Saturday 15 December - Taupō, Bayview Resort Wairakei

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Whakamaru Community County Fair - Saturday 3 November - Whakamaru Reserve Taumarunui Kaumatua Olympics - Friday 2 November - Taumarunui War Memorial Hall Turangi Prevention First Expo - Saturday 15 December - Tūrangi, McLaren Park