Issue 10 June 2008

WAIRARAPA M OANA ISSUE TEN: TEKAU JUNE 2008

New Zealand Order of Merit Award to James Rimene IN THIS ISSUE: Introducing the Wairarapa Moana Incorporation’s New General Manager and Operations Manager p2 Introducing Annette Pile

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www.wairarapa moana.org.nz

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Maori Freehold Land Registration Project

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Developing Our Future Leaders

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Wairarapa Moana Trust 2008 Future Leaders Scholarships Approved

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Operating Your Ahu Whenua Trust

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Shareholder/ Beneficiary Search

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Golden Shears Sponsorship

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A Look Back In Time p10 Shareholder Bank Account Details

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50 Unclaimed Dividends

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Working with at-risk young people in the community has earned Masterton kaumatua, James Rimene, the New Zealand Order of Merit. This award was bestowed during the Queen’s Birthday honours awarded last year.

Seventy-six year old James, who works for Rangitane O Wairarapa, is modest about this award and says that it is good that the work he does is recognised as valuable by the community. He feels that his background work experience has helped him to work in an elder status for Rangitane O Wairarapa which is a Masterton based organisation offering a social service to at-risk youngsters.

Says James: “I’ve had quite a lot of experience in the past working with young people, many Maori, who have got themselves into trouble.

At one time I was a deputy warden in charge of those who were recommended by the courts for periodic detention. I also worked, together with my eldest brother, as kaumatua with the Youth Court for the court judges. I was also a trustee on the Makoura school board.

“Regarding my current work, you could say I’m a volunteer but I do sit on the board of Rangitane O Wairarapa and my kaumatua status allows me to work with young people who also work for the board. Many of them unfortunately are unable to speak tikanga

James Rimene Maori and are not always aware of the rich history connected with their people in this area. As I’m very interested in genealogy and have done considerable research to find out more about our people in Wairarapa, I feel I can help here,” he says. “Fortunately, things are changing for Maori in general and they are finding out more about their tribal history. Not having that awareness of their culture has led some into non-productive lives and this we feel needs to be dealt with as soon as possible.”

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James considers that for today’s young Maori te reo Maori is much stronger now than it was forty years ago. He considers that kura kaupapa, the kohanga reo and manu korero `are the tops!’

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INTRODUCING THE WAIRARAPA MOANA INCORPORATION’S NEW

General Manager and Operations Manager “The Incorporation is pleased to announce the appointment last month of two new management positions,” says Chairman, Kingi Smiler.

“Mr Andy MacLeod has been appointed General with overall responsibility for all Incorporation activities and will reside in Taupo. Mr Chris Berry appointed as Farm Operations Manager and will Mangakino.”

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Kingi Smiler says these appointments are timely as the Incorporation has now reached a stage in its development where full-time skilled and experienced management is required to achieve the new strategic business goals planned for the next five years.

“Chris and Andy will be working closely with our consultants John Hall, Phil Tither, Michael Allan and Brett Bennett,” Kingi Smiler explains. “Their tasks will be to review, evaluate and make any changes to our current management practices and to accommodate the responsibilities for these two new

positions in our organisation. I look forward to working with both Andy and Chris.”

ANDY MACLEOD The Incorporation’s new General Manager Andy MacLeod sees his role as one with a strong focus on the strategic outlook for Wairarapa Moana. This strategy includes managing asset risks, seeking new opportunities and pushing for performance and development of the existing asset base.

“The introduction of the new management team gives the Incorporation a more direct approach to managing and monitoring performance and strategies while working closely with the Board. My first objective will be to work with the new Operations Manager, Chris Berry and the existing Wairarapa team to ensure there is a structure and direction

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James’s own tribal background is Ngati Hamua which is a sub tribe of Rangitane.

He also has Ngati Raukawa affiliations on his grandmother’s side and Ngati Whakaue from Te Arawa on his mother’s side.

“My eight brothers and I were fortunate to be brought up by our grandmother within a rich Maori environment in Te Ore Ore. We spoke te reo right from the start as my grandmother could not speak English. We would often have to accompany her to town because she was not able to make herself understood in English. We had to do the translating,” he recalls.

James explains that his grandmother had a very strong influence on his life as his parents were busy working and as is customary in many Maori families he was often left in her care. He is grateful that he was able to enjoy a very secure childhood which included older aunties and uncles in a very loving environment.

“My brothers and I attended Te Ore Ore Native School and after the Wairarapa earthquake in 1932 we shifted into Masterton and attended West School. This move was, I believe, because our previous school was condemned even though I note the building still stands and there are people still living in there today!”

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James also attended Kopuaranga, a country school in Mauriceville, and at secondary level was a pupil at St Joseph’s College. He smiles when he recalls he was the only pupil to follow the Ratana faith when most of the school pupils were Roman Catholic. He admits that he left school at quite a young age to work in woolsheds, on farms and tried his hand at scrub cutting and fencing but his main interest was helping young people to understand who they were and who they were descended from.

For this father of four boys and one girl and grandfather of ten grandchildren and thirty great grand-children, spare time is at a premium. However, he does find time to reflect on his early days. “They were good days,” he suggests. “We got on well, both our people and pakeha, there was no such thing as racism, things are very different now. The world is a much faster place, there are a lot of bad influences out there and our young people seem to have everything given to them on a plate.”

However, James says he feels he can make a small difference, particularly for young Maori. “Working for an organisation which specialises in social services allows me to back up our social workers here with suggestions that just might solve a particular problem,” he says.

Story and picture by Philippa Novak

that reduces risk while enhancing performance.

Secondly, I will be looking for investment opportunities for the Incorporation and monitoring risks outside our direct control driven by market or regulatory changes”.

Andy is originally from Hawke’s Bay and was brought up on a sheep and beef farm in Patoka and is the youngest of four.

He graduated from Massey University in 1994 with a BBS in Accounting. Upon leaving university he worked for four years for KPMG. Andy has ten years of overseas experience where he continued to develop his business and management ability. His unique overseas experience saw him work in Russia, Europe, United States and Asia. Most recently he worked as a Finance and Operational Director for a financial brokering company – three years in London and two years in Singapore. Over the last five years he has also been involved in non executive director and investment roles in the primary industry in New Zealand.

Andy and his partner Jane are pleased to be back in New Zealand. They have recently relocated to Taupo where they are enjoying the lifestyle of fishing, waterskiing and other outdoor activities.

CHRIS BERRY Forty-five year old Chris Berry is very excited about his new role as Operations Manager and looks forward to being part of the Wairarapa Moana Incorporation as it moves positively into 2008.

Like Andy, Chris has a farming background. He was educated at Saint Joseph’s College, Masterton and later attended Flock House Agriculture training centre in Bulls. Upon graduating from Flock House he enjoyed twenty-five years dairy farming experience, this included seven years on Waiorongomai Station on the shores of Lake Wairarapa.

From left: Andy MacLeod and Chris Berry “Although I was not born in Wairarapa, I was raised, lived and farmed in Featherston between 1975 and 1999,” he says. “I am married to Julie and have four children whose ages range from fourteen to twenty-one. “Julie is fourth generation born and bred in Featherston so our children are fifth generation.”

“From 1999 to 2007 I took up the position of Dairy Manager at Wairarapa’s Taratahi Agriculture Training Centre in Masterton and during this time was promoted to Farming Operations Manager.”

However, change was on the horizon and last year Chris moved to Te Awamutu becoming Manager for the Department of Corrections overseeing 1000 hectares which contained three dairy farms – milking 3000 cows on 840 hectares of land and three support blocks totalling 300 hectares. Chris says part of his job was to oversee eighty-five prisoners each day on the prison farm and liaise with twenty-two staff. He and his family recently moved to Mangakino.

Over the years Chris has taken a keen interest in sport and played club rugby for Tuhirangi, Greytown and Featherston and represented Wairarapa Bush between 1986 and 1995.

“My spare time now is more than enjoyable. I like to support children’s sporting activities,” he adds.

Story by Philippa Novak

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Introducing Annette Pile Ko Mataatua te waka Ko Ngati Awa te iwi Ko Te Rangihouhiri te hapu Ko Te Rangihouhiri te marae Ko Nohotahi raua ko Coral oku matua Ko Annette Pirihita Pile taku ingoa Tena koutou katoa. Mihi mahana ki a koutou.

I recently had the great pleasure of joining the team at Wairarapa Moana Incorporation as Office Administrator.

My background is primarily Playcentre-orientated having taken my son, Paul, through that organisation from birth to age 6. Even though Paul moved on to his primary and secondary schooling I decided that my passion was with the Playcentre organisation and in particular the Maori whanau within it. I spent the next twelve years working with and for the New Zealand Playcentre Federation at all levels (Centre, Association, Regional, National) on a voluntary basis; using my knowledge and talents to further the mana and wairua of Maori and pakeha who choose Playcentre as their Early Childcare provider.

Unfortunately the last few years of my life were marred by major health issues and in November 2006 I was blessed with the opportunity to undergo surgery to correct these matters and since then have gone from strength to Annette Pile strength. At the beginning of 2008 I decided that it was time for me to re-join the workforce and applied for the position that I now have the honour of holding.

Even though I whakapapa to Ngati Awa in the Bay of Plenty, I have lived my entire life here in Wairarapa and consider it ‘home’. I have many friends and acquaintances amongst the tangata whenua of Wairarapa, having met many of them through my dealings with Playcentre and Kohanga Reo. I deem it an honour and a privilege to be able to work for the tangata whenua of Wairarapa in this capacity and hope to do so for a very long time to come.

www.wairarapamoana.org.nz “What an excellent website. I see an incredible amount of energy there.”

These are the words of a descendant newly introduced to Wairarapa Moana.

The Wairarapa Moana website has been upand-running since the 19th December 2007. The launch coincided with the opening of Wairarapa Moana House. You may be interested in some of the content which includes the original rangatira of Wairarapa Moana, profiles of tipuna, shareholder communication, farming information, merchandise, grants information, electronic copies of past Mailers, profiles ... and that’s not all!

Have you been there yet? ... tell the whanau to visit our website.

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Maori Freehold Land Registration Project What is this project?

This is a project being run by the Maori Land Court, in partnership with Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) to clearly identify all Maori Freehold Land in New Zealand. The project will put all current information relating to Maori land into the LINZ computerised system, called Landonline, to make it easier to access your records. This will mean that you can access your current information through both LINZ offices and the Maori Land Court.

The kaupapa driving this project is about simplifying access to current information about Maori land and providing Maori land owners with a provisional or fully registered title.

Teams of Maori Land Court staff based in Whangarei, Hamilton, Rotorua, Wanganui and Gisborne are carrying out the project. The teams are responsible for collating current information from the Court records and for sending the title information to LINZ. Landonline is an electronic system which stores title information on land in New Zealand. The database is run by Land Information New Zealand (LINZ), the Government agency responsible for managing information about land ownership and title in New Zealand.

There will be no changes to the way the Maori Land Court operates, or to its authority. There will be no change to any form of Maori land or the status you have as a Maori landowner. Maori Land Court records will stay at the Maori Land Court and no information relating to you or your land, other than current title information, and land boundaries (as taken from the court record) will be stored in Landonline.

The project is using specialist staff and will not have any impact on the day-to-day business of the Maori Land Court.

LINZ does not have any authority or control over any land in New Zealand; it is only responsible for storing the information and making it accessible in the most efficient manner.

What are the benefits to Maori Land owners?

Once your land is registered with Landonline your title will be given either a Computer Interest Register (CIR) or a Computer Freehold Register (CFR). CFR is given to land where a full survey has already been carried out. This was previously referred to as a Full Certificate of Title.

Where no field survey has been undertaken, the project will produce an electronic plan with measurements taken from the Court record and signed by a Judge. These titles are given a Computer Interest Register (CIR) previously known as Provisional Registration. These electronic plans state that ‘areas and boundaries not defined by survey, clearly indicating that further survey work would be needed to obtain a CFR’.

Owners of previously unsurveyed blocks will have greater clarity regarding the location and boundaries of their land in relation to other land.

The Landonline system shows land title details in the way that financial and lending institutions require to lend money for development or other purposes.

This is the first time that current Maori Freehold Land title details (reconciled with the MLC record) have been available in this format but it will not guarantee that a bank or financial institution will lend against it.

By registering all Maori Land Court orders, owners of Maori Freehold Land will gain the same benefits enjoyed by general landowners under the Land Transfer Act. The benefits of registration under the Land Transfer Act include: • Provision of further protection of title in addition to that provided under Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993 by ensuring that once Maori Freehold is registered on the LINZ system, it is clearly identified as Maori Freehold Land. This provides clarity for all users of the system about exactly what is, and what is not, Maori Freehold Land.

• A title certificate which states that the land is Maori Freehold Land, and ensures that all transactions affecting these titles have first been approved by the Maori Land Court.

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Developing Our Future Leaders “Awesome! Rewarding! Valuable!” those were all words Wairarapa Moana scholarship recipient Marise Stuart used to describe the first Future Leaders wananga organised by the Wairarapa Moana Trust.

The wananga held at Papawai Marae from 25 – 26 April 2008 was attended by over fifty Wairarapa Moana Future Leaders scholarship recipients and their whanau.

The Future Leaders initiative provides funding to those participating in tertiary studies and trade training. Applicants must be descendants of the original rangatira of Wairarapa Moana.

“Last year when the Trust reviewed its scholarship programme, trustees decided they needed to do more to develop our future leaders,” said Anne Carter, Chair of the Wairarapa Moana Trust.

“For the first time we invited all 2008 scholarship recipients to a leadership wananga. This is our contribution to ensuring that our young people know what it means to be a descendant of Wairarapa Moana.”

“The Trust recognises the importance of developing our young people. After all they will be the ones that will lead us in the future.”

“I am pleased to say that the response from our young people has been overwhelming and we can happily report that this first wananga was a huge success.”

The two-day wananga was among the selection criteria requirements for the Wairarapa Moana Trust scholarship programme. The wananga aimed to reinforce whakapapa links, learn waiata, tikanga and kawa from home.

The wananga was facilitated by Paora Ammunson. Paora said of the thirty-six scholarship recipients, about a third are from Wairarapa with the rest from all over the country but “belonging here by whakapapa”.

“The intention is to get these guys to make a commitment to coming home to Wairarapa and getting involved with their Marae,” he said.

“We have got our home-grown people living in Wairarapa who will step up to leadership positions but there is also a lot of talent outside of Wairarapa so this is very much about reintegrating them back here.

“Our demographic is so youth-orientated that we really need to reach down to these guys and pull them into the Boards now.”

Our future leaders heard presentations on Friday evening from Paora Ammunson on the history of Papawai Marae and Rawiri Smith on Wairarapa whakapapa.

Other presenters on Saturday offered insights into various aspects of leadership and the community. Presenters included Ron Mark and Arawhetu Peretini, Wairarapa Moana Incorporation, Haami Te Whaiti, representing the Wairarapa community; John Hayes, MP for Wairarapa; and Anne Carter, Chair of the Wairarapa Moana Trust.

For more information on the Future Leaders and Trade Training scholarships, visit the Incorporation website : www.wairarapamoana.org.nz

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2008 FUTURE LEADERS SCHOLARSHIPS APPROVED FIELD OF STUDY

STUDENT

Health

Deborah Rimene

Community Development

Victoria Faith Robinson

Arts, History, Language

Kahu Te Whaiti

Business and Commerce

Peter Shou Lern Lee

Maori

Pehi Taueki Lorraine (Beryl) Te Whaiti Adrienne Denise Hesketh

Health

Jahmaine Keil Cherie Michelle Wyatt

Community Development

Ashleigh Wong

Education and Teaching

Nikita Read Aroha Pirere Pikitia Tuuta Colleen Morehu

Business and Commerce

Courtney Michelle Sciascia Bianca Eraina Hewitson

Arts, History and Language

Matiu Workman Emma Karaitiana Angelique Jordan Jacob Woodward Joshua Woodward

Information Technology

Annie Te Huia Hopkirk

Sport, Recreation & Tourism

Amanda Rushby Marise Stuart

Law / Theology Sciences

Arts, History and Language

Virginia Linee Douglas Andre Irwin Iranui Josephine Kennedy Lyn Wilson Riana King Christin Jane Bentley Meriana Morehu

Farm, Agriculture, Horticulture Teina Eremiha Matiaha Engineering

Peter Keith Rushby Earlton Kahuraka Mita-Waata

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Operating Your Ahu Whenua Trust What Is An Ahu Whenua Trust?

Ahu Whenua trusts replace the old Section 438 trusts. One of four new types of trusts created under Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993 (“the Act”), Ahu Whenua trusts are designed to manage whole blocks of Maori freehold land. They are often used for commercial purposes. This makes them suitable for many farming operations on Maori freehold land.

An Ahu Whenua trust order may give the trustees wide and flexible powers concerning the administration of the land. However, the land is vested in them on behalf of the beneficial owners and must be managed for the benefit of those owners.

Trustees’ powers to sell land are limited by the Act. Trust orders may also prohibit the sale of land altogether and/or prohibit the mortgaging of the land for security purposes.

Professional advice should be obtained, where appropriate, particularly if a sale of land is being contemplated.

What Must Trustees Do? As with any kind of trust, you should read and understand the trust order. This document sets out what you can and cannot do. The following tips will help ensure that you do not lose your trustee position, or suffer other penalties.

Shareholder/ Beneficiary Search The Incorporation has had mail returned to the office for the following shareholders or trustees.

If you are able to provide any relevant information or contact details, please call Ngaere Webb on 06 3702608 or 0800 662 624.

Kylie Jane Henderson Edward K T Riwai Victor Henare Ahipene Ian Francis Waaka Reuben Tuari Raymond Fraser Reginald Watson Arthur George Manihera Whanau Trust Francis Paewai Linda Kay Karaitiana Cherie Antonella Tauri

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1. Always act prudently and carefully. You act on behalf of the trust’s beneficiaries. Therefore, you must act with the good judgment expected of a businessperson managing the affairs of others. For example, you must invest funds wisely and collect rentals promptly.

2. Always act impartially towards beneficiaries. You must not favour, or seem to favour, one class of beneficiaries over another. If you have discretion as to how much each beneficiary is to receive, that discretion must be exercised fairly.

3. Make sure you only pay who you are supposed to pay.

The beneficiaries are set out in the trust order. Only these people may be paid out of trust funds. An exception is where trust order permits income to be applied for Maori community purposes.

4. Keep beneficiaries informed. Beneficiaries are entitled to ensure that the trustees are managing the trust properly.

Proper accounts must be kept and made available if asked for. Don’t hide possible problems. If allowing the beneficiaries to see accounts might compromise the privacy of another person, discuss this with your lawyer.

5. Consult with other trustees. Each trustee is separately responsible for the trust. So that ‘the right hand knows what the left hand is doing’, hold regular meetings.

Discuss fully all matters relating to the trust, fully inform all trustees and approve all expenses in advance. Minutes should be kept of all decisions of the trustees and stored securely for safekeeping.

6. Declare conflicts of interests. Avoid any situation where your own personal interest may conflict with the interests of the beneficiaries under the trust. Where this situation cannot be avoided, you must declare your personal interest to the other trustees and beneficiaries.

7. Keep accounts. Become familiar with all the trust property and keep accounts. The trust order will set out how the accounts are to be kept and filed and also how they are to be audited and inspected.

8. Take only the remuneration you are entitled to. The trust order may permit the trustees to be paid for the work they do as trustees. If the order provides for “reasonable” remuneration and you are unsure what is reasonable, discuss this with the other trustees and with your lawyer.

You must not take more than what is permitted by the order.

9. Be familiar with the trust order. Any additional trustee responsibilities will be in the trust order. It is up to you to be familiar with your responsibilities. If you are in doubt, talk to your lawyer.

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Golden Shears Sponsorship From left to right:

Nelson Rangi WMT 3rd placegetters:

Adam Braush Matthew Smith 2nd placegetters:

James Fagan Tuma Mullins 1st placegetters:

David Buick Ringa Paewai Ron Mark WMI

Masterton’s Golden Shears competition has been a popular national and international sporting event since its inception in the 1960s showcasing some of the world’s top shearers.

In 2007 the Maori/Pakeha Teams event returned to the Golden Shears after a break of at least a decade.

Sponsored by Wairarapa Moana the event proved so popular there was no hesitation in continuing that sponsorship in 2008.

The Maori/Pakeha Teams contest is jointly sponsored

by Wairarapa Moana Trust and Wairarapa Moana Incorporation. The incorporation manages the farming operations on behalf of its shareholders while the Trust is committed to the cultural and social well-being of beneficiaries and their whanau.

Shown above are the Maori/Pakeha Teams winners and placegetters flanked by Ron Mark representing the Incorporation and Nelson Rangi representing the Trust.

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A Look Back in Time Te Ao Hou Te Ao Hou was published from 1952 to 1976 by the Maori Affairs Department. According to its first editorial, Te Ao Hou aimed “to provide interesting and informative reading for Maori homes … like a Marae on paper, where all questions of interest to Maori can be discussed”.

Te Ao Hou featured bi-lingual content, with articles in both English and te reo Maori.

Excerpts From Edition 1 – Winter 1952

Maori Food The traditional foods of the Maori people built splendid men and fine looking, strong women and all of these foods were gathered from New Zealand’s soil or waters.

With the coming of the pakeha and his food, however, the Maori people are forgetting some of their own foods and adopting more and more of the pakeha foods.

But Maori food is good, very good. Kumara are, in almost all respects, as valuable to the body as white potato. Of course, if kumara, or potatoes, are peeled thickly much of the nourishment is lost. The best way of all to cook kumara is in a Maori oven, in their skins, after careful washing. Every Maori knows that this is the way to get the true flavour of kumara.

Secondly, puha or rauriki, is a green vegetable which can be compared favourably with cabbage, silverbeet or spinach. In addition, the Maori method of cooking puha, in which all the liquid is drunk, is superior to the common pakeha practice of straining off and throwing away the vegetable water. The more puha is eaten the better.

Maori have always been great fish eaters. May they ever remain as fond of it for fish is a fine food – one of those which build strong muscles. Octopus, sea eggs, rock oysters, crayfish, kuku paua, pipis, toheroa, pupurore – only milk beats these as a body-building food; they are much better than red meat for building strong bones and teeth.

Again, New Zealand coastal waters are rich in such fish as hapuku, rawaru, tarakihi, snapper, kahawai, mango, patiki, kuparu, kanae, tope and countless others. Fish, since mankind began, has been one of his staple foods if he was fortunate to live near the sea or a river and if he did not he was prepared to barter much of his possessions for the precious fish, or dried fish. Long before we knew anything about the components of foods we knew that fish was good for building muscles and for preventing the disease known as goitre.

Fresh-water eels should never be despised for they, like the oil from the livers of fish, contain a substance which makes our bones strong and straight and helps to keep our teeth free from decay.

Pakeha food such as meat, bread and tea has come and come to stay but do not neglect your own excellent foods, your puha, your fish and your kumara.

All seventy-six issues have now been digitised by the National Library of New Zealand with the permission of the Maori Purposes Fund Board. To visit the website to browse all issues of Te Ao Hou, the web address is http://teaohou.natlib.govt.nz/teaohou/index.html

A Memorable Conference of the Maori Women’s Welfare League The Auckland conference of the Maori Women’s Welfare League, 1-3 April, has shown more clearly than ever what functions the league is to fulfill.

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The achievements of the conference in the enormous field it covered have been remarkable. It appeared that the women of the league are concentrating on two aims, namely, first to do a wide variety of Maori social work and second, to stimulate the Maori arts and crafts, especially haka and weaving.

Most of the conference was given to planning the huge social work programme the women have set themselves.

Five fields were selected for special attention by subcommittees and for addresses by outside speakers, namely housing, child welfare, health, education and employment. In each of these fields penetrating discussion led to the passing of thoroughly practical and worthwhile remits, giving members a programme of social work that will keep them more than busy. Many of the remits, too, were resolutions calling upon the various departments of State to help. It is wholesome that the

voice of Maori womanhood can now be heard to so much effect.

home comforts. Mrs M. Tamihana, district representative for Tairawhiti, was chairwoman of the committee.

The second conference of the Maori Women’s Welfare League was held at the Maori Community Centre at Halsey Street, Auckland. The number of delegates and observers attending lay around 300. The President was Mrs Whina Cooper of Panguru, Northland.

The subject was introduced by Mr J. H. W. Barber, director of Maori housing. Delegates criticised the department on the high repayments asked of housing applicants on the holdings in the building programme and in the dealing with loan applications; they also asked for a higher allocation of State housing. After lengthy discussion, the Under Secretary of Maori Affairs, Mr T. T. Ropiha, announced that the Board of Maori Affairs had recently formulated a policy to enable the department to increase the term for repayment from 25 to 35 years where the applicant’s income demanded this.

Instructions were to go out shortly and delegates were asked to give the department twelve months grace to see the effect of the new policy.

At the Hon. E. B. Corbett’s arrival, all the women participated in a long and spirited haka in the best Maori tradition unhindered by the conditions of a well-filled conference room. A splendid performance was given by Mr Te Kani Te Ua who, in greeting the Minister, said he was sorry to have to welcome him to so outlandish and barbaric a place as Auckland.

The Minister said in his address that he could already see the great role the league was to play in the life of the Maori people. The women’s work, he said, would be an inspiration to the men’s tribal committees and would put out a challenge to them and strengthen their organisation. The Minister was anxious that the league should not drop the word ‘women’ from its organisation. A merger with the tribal committees, he said, was not desirable. The women’s problems were peculiar to themselves. They were the problems of family life which was the centre of the social and spiritual strength of the people.

Conference finally passed several remits aimed at assisting the Maori people and the department in obtaining housing.

They were:

“After this conference,” said the Minister, “you will have been recharged with the zeal of the missionary. Many of you have to go back to the daily grind at your own fireside.

There you have the greatest opportunity to help. Remember that you are the mothers of a great race, which over the centuries has survived many tribulations: the migration from Hawaiki to New Zealand and then the impact, the terrible impact, of an alien way of life. What wonderful progress has been made! Proceed with the cultivation of songs from your childhood days which take you back to the ages of the past and remind you of your heritage. It is good that your organisation should cultivate the songs and handiwork of your people.”

Foster Homes and Child Welfare

In the afternoon of April 1 the main work of the conference started. This consisted of the study of five major Maori social problems: housing, child welfare, employment, health and education.

Housing problems The fiercest and most comprehensive discussions of the conference were centred on housing. As Mrs Cooper said in her presidential address, all social problems began with housing. Drunkenness too very frequently results when a husband comes home and finds an absence of essential

• A resolution to help the department in recruiting labour for building • A resolution to encourage Maori to apply for State houses • A resolution to give full publicity to State house tenants and applicants as to their responsibilities as householders

Keen interest was shown in Mr G. S. Smith, District Child Welfare Officer, Auckland, who addressed the conference on child welfare problems. He stressed that children became State wards more often through the misdemeanours of the unsuitability of the parents than through their own wickedness.

Whenever anything unfavourable was known about the children, the foster-parents were given the story but a large percentage of the State wards have never been convicted of offences. Mrs P. P. Tahiwi chaired the committee.

After discussion, conference decided to pass a remit urging league branches to make a survey for suitable foster-homes for Maori and part-Maori children. A variety of other remits touching on the welfare of children were passed, such as: • Support to the National Council of Women in its recommendation for stricter censorship of radio serials, films, comics and magazines.

• A resolution to stimulate teaching of Christianity to children at home, in Sunday schools, bible classes and churches.

• Recommendation for more severe punishment of those guilty of assault on children.

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Shareholder Bank Account Details Payment of dividends to shareholders resident in New Zealand has, for some time, been made by way of Direct Credit to shareholders bank accounts only. Shareholders resident in New Zealand no longer receive cheques. This is the current policy of the Incorporation.

Shareholders residing overseas will continue to be paid by cheque. If, however, the shareholder living overseas holds a bank account in New Zealand you may elect to have your dividend paid into this account.

Bank account details are required to be verified by the bank so the office does not accept bank account numbers over the phone.

Please be reminded that if you are required to provide new bank account details because you have changed your banking facility or your account has been closed, please call the office to request a bank account form.

New Zealand IRD Number If we hold your IRD number you will pay 19.5% in dividend tax. If we do not hold your IRD number your dividend will be taxed at the rate of 39%.

Shareholders – you will only receive the lower rate of taxation if you have provided the Incorporation with your New Zealand Inland Revenue Department number.

Contact Ngaere Webb with any inquiries relating to shareholding in Wairarapa Moana Incorporation.

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50 Unclaimed Dividends The following is a selection of Unclaimed Dividends that are held in the office. If you are able to provide any information that may enable the office to make contact with these shareholders or their descendants please contact Ngaere Webb on 06 3702608 or 0800 662 624 or ngaere@ wairarapamoana.org.nz RIHIPETI BESSIE ENOKA RAKAI WHAKAIRI FRANCIS MANIHERA JOHN PHILLIP NEVILLE HAUMIHIA TE WHAITI ESTATE BEVERLEY MARGARET OHIA CLEMENT JOSEPH ROBERT LUCAS HENRY FONTAINE KAWANA PAEATERANGI PANAU TAMATI HENARE MAAKA II ERENA HAPUKU KERENENE TAURAU HANA TAURAU HINEPATOKARIKI TAMIHANA GERTRUDE ANNE HIMONA MARGARET PAKI HAKARAIA TAMATI MADELINE POTANGAROA ELEANOR PENE WARREN HOKO TOKI PAORA MARAMA HOKO PAORA TOKI TIKI KOPU KAURIKIRANGI AKUHATA EHETERE PAEA HIWA WAIKARI MAXINE RODNEY WILSON MATINA RUTA

MARAKAIA HOROMONA TE RIMU HIMIONA HARATIERA CHARLES THOMS KARYN KATIE ARAITI TE RANGIKAPUROTO ROPHIA DONALD ANDREW POLLETT EARL CHRISTOPHER POLLETT BARBARA IVY MANIHERA TE UA HAMUERA KATERINA MITAI WAAKA MITAI WAAKA KAWAURUKUROA HANITA PAKI ORIWIA SIMEON JIM KOHINGATANGA MANIHERA JAMES MAKIURUHAU WAIPUKA PARAMENA HENARE MAAKA ESTATE BARBARA TAPITA ADAMS VERNON THOMPSON LORETTA ROSE THOMPSON JOHN RANGI THOMPSON MARTHA LINKHORN KATHLEEN GEDDES PATRICIA RONGOMAITARA HAYWARD GEORGE KOMENE

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Closing Dates for Articles for the Mailer Closing Dates Friday, August 22, 2008 Friday, November 14, 2008

Distribution Dates Saturday, September 20, 2008 Saturday, December 13, 2008

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The team at Wairarapa Moana office in Masterton is: Charmaine Kawana, Ngaere Webb, Annette Pile, Henare Manaena. If you have any questions please give us a call or send a fax, email or letter.

Freepost 158415 PO Box 2019 Kuripuni Masterton 5842

Wairarapa Moana House 4 Park Avenue Masterton

Ph: 06 370 2608 Fax: 06 370 2609

Freephone: 0800 662 624 Email: info@wairarapamoana.org.nz