19 July Wainuiomata News

By Frank Neill

The climax of Wainuiomata’s Matariki four-day festival, the hautapa ceremony. The musicians playing

are (from left) Shane James, David Trinder, Joe Taylor and Ripeka Hori. Photo: Frank Neill.

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Everyone coming together a big highlight

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“This was by far the biggest Matariki celebration.”

“It was really great. It was amazing,” she adds.

“I think the biggest highlight was that was the first time all races in Wainuiomata came together to celebrate.”

The Wainuiomata event also attracted people from outside the valley. “I saw someone from K piti, as well as people from over the hill.”

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Two of the major reasons that this year’s celebration was the biggest and the best was that Friday 14 July was a public holiday, and that there was big funding from Creative New Zealand, in addition to the money provided by the Hutt Mana Charitable Trust.

Although the crowds that flocked to the celebration were huge “to me its success was not about bums on seats; it was the quality of the programme.

“I think the four-day event overall was very well planned around the themes of each day.”

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The four-day celebration began with a kaumatua (seniors) day on 12 July. It featured planned activities, games, and lunch for kaumatua. Markets and food stalls will be a feature every day.

Tamariki (children’s) day took place on 13 July. This featured taonga p oro, schools kapa haka, a free sausage sizzle and activities for tamariki.

A longer celebration was held on 14 July, the day of Matariki. It featured a market; food stalls;

live entertainment by Sianne, Under the Sun, Next Generation, Uku and Araiyah; a Kaum tua waiata session followed by soup and fry bread.

The climax of the four-day event – the hautapu ceremony – was held as the 14 July finale.

“This was the biggest thing because it was about the people who have passed away [during the year to 14 July],” Louana says.

The hautapa ceremony featured the lighting of a fire in a drum especially made for the occasion by Louana’s cousin, David Trinder.

The drum he prepared features a series of holes that formed the shape of the waka Te Waka O Rangi, with Matariki at its tauihu (bow) and Puanga at its taurapa (stern).

David transported it from his Taranaki home to Wainuiomata on a trailer.

Finally a long list of names of people who had passed away during the year was read out, and people at the ceremony also added more names, and the names were then placed in the fire.

That signified that the people

and animals had gone from Te Waka O Rangi (the waka that collects up the dead) and turned into stars

Just before the hautapa ceremony two guest speakers made presentations.

Poropiti Rangitaawa told the story of Puanga and Matariki. They are, he said, “a reminder of a hope that will light up our lives”.

To his knowledge and from his research, the stars are a family that has the same emotional characteristics as mankind has in general. Continue on page 3.

The team of the Matariki festival helpers and organisers. Photo: Love Wainuiomata.

Q: What is important to you about Matariki?

on those who have passed and looking towards the future.

It is a time to spend with your family members – to cherish the time you have with them, cherish it and enjoy it.

Being thankful and looking forward to a new year and spending time with whānau.

A gathering of family and friends and how the community gets together. It’s a special time of celebration.

Coming together with whānau and bringing back traditions.

We need to care for each other

Having all Māori gathering together. It’s good to have everyone together – all our Māori people.

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May Matariki and Puanga “live on forever in the hearts of people,” he said.

The second speaker was the famous artist, Darcy Nicholas, who has exhibited all over the world.

His main message was the incredibly strong power of love.

“We need to care for each other … in a loving society,” he said.

“How do we care for each other? It requires a vision and it requires action by everyone.”

Darcy gave, as an example of the power of love, what had happened with his wife.

His wife passed away around two years ago. Some 14 years earlier the doctors had given

her two years to live.

The drugs she was prescribed were killing her, Darcy said. The drugs were stopped, lifestyle changes were implemented along with bariatric treatment, but most importantly his wife was surrounded by love.

As a result, she lived 12 years longer than the doctors had predicted, to their amazement.

“That’s the power of love,” Darcy said.

Finally, there was a Whanaungatanga day on 15 July, with a performance by Poropiti’s band and a free sit-down hangi for lunch in the HUB, marae style.

One example of just how successful the many events during the four days were was David Tinder’s workshop.

David had 200 strings for necklaces and more than 200 people sat down and created bones for themselves.

The successful event was a collaboration between Louana, as the organiser, Love Wainuiomata, K kiri Marae Health and Social Sevices, The Wainuiomata Community HUB, and Wainuiomata Marae along with volunteers from the community.

Not only did Louana feature during the four days of Matariki celebration in Wainuiomata, she also went to Capital Basketball’s Matariki festival at the Walter Nash Stadium on 15 July. The day began with a dawn hautapu just after 6am and finished with a dinner and a free concert in the evening.

Just some of the crowd that packed the Wainuiomata town centre on day one of the Matariki celebration – kaumatua day. Photo: Louana Fruean.

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Acknowledging Matauranga Māori, reflecting

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The band Under the Sun during its Matariki performance. Photo: Love Wainuiomata.

Poropiti Rangitaawa plays the putorino during his Matariki presentation on 14 July. Photo: Frank Neill.

The fire burns brightly in a drum featuring Te Waka O Rangi, made especially for the hautapa ceremony. Photo: Frank Neill.

GARDENING THIS WEEK GROWING HEALTHY ROSES : By

There are a number of things that are vital to a healthy plant besides sunlight, food, water and a healthy ‘Soil Food Web’. That is those micro-organisms and beneficial fungi which not only live in the soil but also ‘in’ and ‘surrounding’ a plant.

Earthworms are also vital to healthy soil and plants; if there are no earthworms or few in number, you have a problem and you cannot hope to have a really healthy garden (soil) till you have good worm populations.

I write about this in relation to food crops but the same principals apply to having great roses also.

Plant Diseases are natural and are the garbage removers in nature, assisting in the quicker decomposing of plant material that has done its time, converting it back to organic food for other plants to live on.

In nature we talk about the ‘survival of the fittest’. Plants that become weakened for some reason are very susceptible to diseases. Pests also tend to hone-in on weaker plants rather than on the strong healthy ones. Gardens of my childhood, 50 odd years ago, were brimming with life, plants & roses were very, very healthy, no chemical sprays were used (there was no need for them)

It was impossible to put a spade into the garden without cutting a few worms in half.

The soil we had in those days was feed compost made from chook manure (everyone had a few chooks), and organic wastes. Other animal manures would be sort after along with sea weed.

All of these feed the soil life and worms, so plants in gardens, radiated health.

Vegetables and fruit grown were also brimming with health and contributed to a much healthier society than we see today.

So what went wrong?

We introduced chemically made fertilisers into the gardens and these

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fertilisers, knocked back the soil life including the worms.

Plants lost their healthy glow and diseases began to appear. So problems evolved, which made the chemical companies smile as they created new chemical sprays to solve the problems.

Fungicides may control some diseases but they also kill the beneficial fungi that the plants need for good health! New chemical poisons where found for killing the insects which were attacking our unhealthy plants.

These poisons were also killing the soil life and after a time the sprays (DDT, Arsenic of Lead etc) were found to be very dangerous to ourselves as well.

So they were banned. To be replaced by what was considered safer poisons, many of which have also been banned.

Most of the now fewer chemicals available to the home gardener currently, are likely to be banned also in time to come, as they also prove too dangerous to the environment and our health.(many have been already banned in some countries)

Herbicides also knock back soil life and can have long term residues. Weed killers containing Glyphosate is the most used chemical in agriculture with millions of tons of it going into the planet, worldwide each year.

Besides the damage it does to the soil over the long term it has been certified as a probable carcinogenic by the World Health Organisation. Well that is the back ground to what has happened to our gardens and why our roses and other plants are not healthy as they should be.

What can you do to grow healthy roses and other plants? Firstly stop using chemical fertilisers and sprays. Purchase instead organic compost and mulches from your garden centre.

Look for the ones that contain animal manures and not made from green wastes as roses die if

given compost made from herbicide effected composts.

.Sheep manure pellets was shown by consumer to the best all round garden fertiliser in trials they did a several years ago.

Other products that are beneficial to the soil include, blood and bone, sea weeds, Gypsum, Garden Lime, dolomite, BioPhos and any animal manures. These will help feed the soil life and restore things as nature intended.

You can also fed the soil life with products such as Magic Botanic Liquid & Mycorrcin which assists in repairing the damage done by chemicals.

I was told by a gardener that had sprayed one group of roses with these two products for a season. In autumn the roses thus treated were in flower, new buds coming, no sign of diseases and looking very healthy. Another group of roses not so treated were finished for the season, covered in black spot and rust and not looking happy.

The gardener also told me the treated ones all had produced scents that he had not noticed before as they were not scented type roses. We need to build up the health of the soil and as this can take a season or two, during this time we need to protect our plants from diseases and pests without using chemical solutions that are going to affect the soil life.

Pests can be controlled with Wallys Super Neem Tree Oil. Neem Oil also tends to reduce the problem of black spot.

Diseases such as rust, black spot, powdery mildew and botrytis are controlled by Sulphur sprays, not copper.

Copper is best for blights, downy mildew and bacterial diseases along with fruit tree’s diseases.

Thus a film of copper over the foliage will give good external protection.

Used every 14 days with Raingard

added. (The alternative is sprays of potassium permanganate or Condys Crystals)

For internal protection you can boost the plant’s immune system with Perkfection Supa. Used once a month only.

If your garden lacks a good number of worms, then you need to get worms going again and the best way to do this is buy in bags of worms.

Put some into a good worm farm and seed the rest into the garden. You do this by making a hole and placing shredded wet newspaper and kitchen scrapes into the hole.

Place a handful of worms into the hole then cover with wet paper and compost.

Do this in each major garden such as rose bed and vegetable gardens. To keep the worms happy and multiplying, mulch gardens a couple of times a year with wet newspapers covered with animal based compost or mulch.

It is also important for both worms

and soil life not to water your gardens with chlorinated tap water. Put a filter (10 micron carbon bonded) to remove the chemical from the water.

Roses also need a certain amount of magnesium, potassium and trace elements.

These are easiest to supply as Wallys Unlocking your Soil plus Fruit and Flower Power.

The reward would be perfect shaped roses, lush green foliage a mild to heady perfume.

A good healthy program would be a two weekly spray of Mycorrcin, MBL & Wallys Neem Tree Oil.

Every second spray or once a month add Perkfection Supa to the above at the lessor spray rate on the label.

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Catch up with Ginny in July

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Wood St perfect for housing

I read with disgust that 40-50 families are to be denied a home on Wood St because the selfish old residents down there don’t want them there.

Wood St is perfect for a development.

Infrastructure already there and we don’t have to increase our rates to build another road to Naenae.

The bus goes right past the site and

it’s fairly close to a school. It’s a perfect location for more homes and with only a couple of houses next to the site [there will be] very little impact to neighbours. Most of the neighbours are across the road. What is Chris Bishop’s interest in a road to Naenae when most people in Wainui have already voted twice against it?

With a cost of living crisis many in Wainui can’t afford the increase in rates, especially when there’s perfectly good land on Wood St that’ll cost us nothing and can be built on immediately.

The land in Upper Fitzherbert is private land and would have to be acquired under the Public Works Act and you’ll be taking land from private

owners which are farms. Wood St land is already available and not owned by the old [people] surrounding it – how disgusting. You’d also have to upgrade the road and infrastructure to Upper Fitzherbert which would cost heaps. Wood St is ready to go tomorrow - excellent road past there too.

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Dance fit

Free Wainuiomata Dance Fit classes are held at the Wainuiomata Community Hall every Monday and Tuesday, starting at 6pm.

The aim of this free service is to help get everyone in the community moving, no matter their shape or size or gender or fitness level.

All ages are welcome and the classes are tamariki friendly.

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Wainui footballers at World Cup

By Frank Neill

Eight young Wainuiomata footballers will be official flag bearers and player escorts at the FIFA Women’s World Cup.

The eight young Wainuiomata Football Club players are Xanthe Sanderson, Emerson Crundwell, Briana Crundwell, Brodie Crundwell, Riley Campbell, Cian Bray, Ella Daniel, Harry Wilkinson and Tamaikoha Maniapoto.

They will be accompanied by chaperones Michael Daniel, Mark Crundwell and Caroline Bray who are also members of

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Wainuiomata Football Club

The Wainuiomata contingent will serve at all the nine World Cup games that will be played at the Wellington Regional Stadium, starting with the group C game between Spain and Costa Rica on 21 July. The seven group matches they will attend includes the match between New Zealand’s Football Ferns and the Philippines on 25 July.

They will also be flag bearers and player escorts for two post group matches, the round of 16 and the quarter final matches that will be played in Wellington.

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Last Week: 12 July 2023

The Wainuiomata Football Club team that will be flag bearers at the FIFA Women’s World Cup (back row from left) Michael Daniel, Mark Crundwell and Caroline Bray; (middle row from left) Harry Wilkinson, Cian Bray and Brodie Crundwell; (seated from left) Briana Crundwell, Xanthe Sanderson, Ella Daniel, Riley Campbell and Emerson Crundwell. Tamaikoha Maniapoto was unavailable when the picture was taken. Photo: Imray’s Snaps.

Exciting opportunity for photographer

By Frank Neill

Wainuiomata photographer Ryan Imray has picked up what may be the opportunity of a lifetime. He has been accredited to take photos at the FIFA Women’s World Cup.

“I’m so excited,” Ryan says.

“I’m like a kid before Christmas.

“I will get to see my favourite sport at one of the biggest events in the world. You can’t ask for more than that.”

To go from taking photographs of Wainuiomata Football Club matches to the FIFA World Cup “is a bit of a jump,” he says.

Ryan has been accredited to photograph as a free lancer.

He will cover the seven group matches played at the Wellington Regional Stadium, starting with the group C game between Spain and Costa Rica on 21 July.

The third match he will cover will feature the Football Ferns game against the Philippines on 25 July.

“That’s the one I’m especially excited for,” he says.

Ulalei finalist in community awards

Ulalei Wainuiomata Sportshas been selected as a finalist in the 2023 Wellington Airport Regional Community Awards –Hutt City.

The awards recognise the valuable contribution of volunteers to community groups and organisations across the Wellington Region, across five categories – Art and Culture, Education and Child Youth Development, Health and Wellbeing, Heritage and Environment, and Sport and Leisure.

There is also a Rising Star award that celebrates new and emerging groups.

Ulalei Wainuiomata Sports proudly serves the community by offering yearround memberships in netball, touch, flag football and UlaFit fitness classes.

They are fully run by volunteers where their mission statement is to serve the community by providing sports clubs that are accessible to players of all ages, skill level and ethnicities.

"Ulalei is a vehicle that allows us to stay connected to our ancestors, our history and our culture" says founding member Fauono Ken Laban.

"A movement that started in Samoa four generations ago is still part of our lives here in New Zealand."

Ulalei Wainuiomata Sports promotes healthy lifestyle, leadership, and higher honours in education, careers and in sports.

The sports clubs are a gateway for members to pursue their sporting goals where offers of support and encouragement are readily available.

“This is a massive recognition of the volunteers at Ulalei and the impact their

The other games he will cover will be Sweden v South Africa on 23 July, USA v The Netherlands on 27 July, Sweden v Italy on 29 July, Japan v Spain on 31 July and South Africa v Italy on 2 August.

To qualify as an official photographer, Ryan had a strict accreditation process to go through.

That included proving that he had photographed professional sport during the last 18 months.

Ryan has certainly done that, having photographed the Wellington Phoenix, the All Whites, the Football Ferns, as well as a cricket match between the Black Caps and England.

So far photographers have been accredited only for the group matches.

Ryan says he will be applying to photograph two post-group rounds – the round of 16 and the quarter finals. One match in each of these rounds will be played in Wellington.

Ryan has regularly provided the “Wainuiomata News” with photographs and write ups of Wainuiomata Football Club matches.

Local leads Lions to victory

By Frank Neill

Wainuiomata’s Peter Umaga-Jensen led the Wellington Lions to an overwhelming 68-7 victory over Horowhenua K piti in their first Ranfurly Shield defence of 2023.

Played at Levin Domain on 12 July, the home team had no answer for the might of the Lions, who ran in 10 tries.

service, alofa and values has had on the community,” says the club’s secretary Toli Sagaga.

“We are humbled by the nomination and absolutely thrilled to be finalists. Ultimately,

we do what we do for our community because they're worth it.”

The Hutt City award winners and runnersup will be announced at a function on 31 August.

Ulalei Moso’oi come from behind win

Ulalei Moso’oi used all their skills and experience to grind out a come from behind win against Hutt Valley Marist 39-35 on 8 July.

The first quarter was fairly even with Hutt Valley Marist taking an early lead 10-9.By half time Hutt Valley extended that lead to 19-16.

Moso’oi stepped up their game in the thirdquarter with the defensive unit ofSummer Murray, Kimiora Winiata and Lagi Moananutaking some crucial intercepts which were converted into much needed goals by goal shootersTahlia Samuelu and Tiana Weepu.

Moso’oi stormed back in the champion-

ship quarter to take the lead 27-26. With momentum clearly on their side Moso’oi never looked back and continued with some scintillating through court ball from their mid courters Kathleen Godinet-Samuelu and Leimarie Rooneyto their goal shooters to finish off.

In reply, Horowhenua K piti scored just the one try late in the match to finally get on the scoreboard.

Not only was Peter the Lions captain, he was also the best player on the park. In its write-up of the match, Stuff named Peter as the “standout player for Wellington”.

He was outstanding on both defence and attack, playing a significant role in a number of the Lions’ tries.

Wellington’s second Ranfurly Shield defence was played yesterday, 19 July, against South Canterbury, who are the reigning Heartland Rugby champions.

The Lions will begin their 2023 National Provincial Championship season when they play Manawatu at the Central Energy Trust Area in Palmerston North on 5 August.

Ryan Imray.

Photo: Alex Vakhrousheva.

Ulalei’s netball squad. Photo: Supplied.

The UlaFit fitness classes. Photo: Supplied.

Keeping Police safe and supported

By Frank Neill

Wainuiomata will be among the first areas in New Zealand to benefit from the Police’s new Tactical Response Model, Hutt South MP and Police Minister Ginny Andersen told the “Wainuiomata News”.

In her role as Police Minister, Ms Andersen launched the Wellington Tactical Response Model on 12 July.

This is a new tool that will keep Police safe when cracking down on dangerous criminals.

“Every day our police deal with tough and dangerous situations,” Ms Andersen says.

“We want to make sure they’re safe and well supported.

“That’s why the Government has funded the new tactical response model nationwide – to back our

police, and help keep them safe while they’re keeping our communities safe.

“The new model will ensure frontline police are well trained, better equipped and supported to continue doing the great work they do every day.

“Officers will receive more real life scenario based training, access to better intelligence before attending a job, and have greater capability available to support them in high risk situations.

“We know this model works to improve safety for frontline Police.

“Even practical steps like doubling up dog teams make a huge difference for day to day police operations,” Ms Andersen says.

With the Wellington district being the first where the Tactical Response Model is rolled out, that means Wainuiomata is among the first areas to be covered.

Police Minister Ginny Andersen with the Police dog Fender and his handler. Photo: Supplied.

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Hutt City Council has done some early thinking about what the next Long Term Plan (LTP) should cover, and now wants people’s help to know if it is on the right track.

The council is asking people to fill out a survey, which is at https://survey. publicvoice.co.nz/s3/ltp-hcc.

The survey closes on 30 July.

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“The LTP sets out our priorities for the next 10 years, including what we will do, how much it will cost and how we will fund it,” the council says.

“Our current LTP focuses on getting the basics right – with significant investments in infrastructure, in transport and Three Waters and we’ve made good progress in these areas.

“We’re upgrading our drinking, sewage and storm water network, building resilience into our transport network, making progress on the new Naenae Pool and Te Wai Takamori o Te Awa Kairangi is under way, delivering RiverLink.”

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"We are facing a number of economic and climate change challenges,” Lower Hutt Mayor Campbell Barry says.

“We’ll adapt to them in partnership with our community, while also prioritising getting the basics right.

"This means for our next LTP we’re building on the foundations of our current priorities and reshaping them to meet our needs over the coming decade.

"We are keeping climate change at the forefront of our thinking as we enable warm, dry secure housing in vibrant neighbourhoods with easy access to green spaces and community places.

"Lower Hutt is our city, and we want to know whether you think we are prioritising the right things for our community.

"I strongly encourage everyone to have their say so we can keep working to make Lower Hutt the best place in New Zealand to grow up, raise a family and thrive."

Survey on council’s long term plan