Academic Success for Wairarapa Moana descendant

It’s been a super hectic couple of years for Wairarapa Moana descendant, Kelly-Anne Bentley, both with her studies and trying to develop a career.

It all began in 2020 when Kelly-Anne started a Bachelor of Science, majoring in Food Science, at Lincoln University. Despite the global pandemic she was able to obtain highlevel grades, which enabled her to apply for the Pùtaiao Scholarship at Lincoln. The scholarship is for students who are performing highly in their academia. Fortunately, Kelly-Anne was awarded the scholarship, which helped financially with her studies.

In 2021 at the university, she continued to work hard and achieved a lot with some of her undergrad research, contributing to a big project that was presented at the International Congress of Meat Science and Technology, which is a super-cool achievement.

To finish 2021, Kelly-Anne was working as a Product Development Intern in the Dairy Department at Goodman Fielder. It was an amazing chance to put some of her theoretical skills to practice.

Following her year of study in 2021 she was awarded the Academic Success Award, at the Lincoln University's Food and Fibre Awards Dinner. She received the Top Student Award in the Bachelor of Science (Food Science) degree for 2021.

Having completed her Bachelor's degree in the middle of 2022, Kelly-Anne continued to study towards a Master of Science, although this summer she has taken a small break from her studies to work at The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research, as a summer student where she has had some amazing support to develop her career, including the opportunity to present at the International Congress of Biological Invasion, in May this year.

Kelly-Anne looks forward to what this year brings for her career as she’ll be starting work towards her Masters’ thesis and working at the university as a mentor, tutor, and research associate.

Kelly-Anne is a past recipient of a Wairarapa Moana Future Leaders Scholarship which has financially assisted costs towards her studies.

Continuing the trend of recent months, rainfall, well above historical averages, has required the WMI

Farms to be extremely adaptive.

For the year-on-year period June to May the farms have received 100% of the long-term average annual rainfall, in the six months to the end of December.

The farming operations of grass silage harvesting required careful management to ensure that quality feed reserves were harvested under delayed timeframes. WMI silage contractors engaged this season were exceptional in the service they provided.

Our thanks to Ireland and Bluegrass contracting as they have gone above and beyond for the WMI Farms.

Waikato Regional Council visited all the WMI Farms in December at very short notice to inspect the effluent systems. All farms were compliant on inspection which allowed the permitted activity status to continue with no remedial work needing to be undertaken. This is a fantastic result.

Milk production has continued to track well and during December the farms were able to achieve a 5% decline in production from the previous month of November. A 5% decline in milk production is an industry benchmark which is considered as high achieving. This result illustrates farm teams who are focused on delivering results which everybody can be proud of.

Can you help?

Wiremu Te Whaiti

The office is holding unclaimed dividends for Wiremu, and we are attempting to locate any descendants/rightful beneficiaries and would appreciate any information that may bring a successful result. This is the information we have found about Wiremu:

Wiremu’s parents were Henare Ngapuoterangi Te Whaiti and Te Rauhina Pita Mohi.

Wiremu was born on 11 May 1935 and died in Marton in June 2006.

Wiremu married Maramatanga Hine Ngairo and was understood to have had one son and one daughter.

It is believed Wiremu has a daughter named Amiria Rauhina Te Whaiti who may be living in Australia.

Any information would be greatly appreciated. Call Amethyst on 370 2608 or 0800 662 624 or email: wmoffice@wairarapamoana.org.nz

AGM 2023 ... change of date

The date of the 2023 New Zealand general election was announced in mid-January and will be held on Saturday 14th October.

With this in mind, Wairarapa Moana Incorporation has decided to move our AGM a week earlier than the date proposed at our 2022 AGM.

Mark the date in your diary...

Wairarapa Moana AGM

October 7th, 2023.

AGM information will be provided in the June Mailer.

Wairarapa Moana Merchandise

The office has the following merchandise available for purchase. To order, contact Amethyst at wmoffice@wairarapamoana.org.nz or visit our website shop at www.wairarapamoana.org.nz/shop/

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