Kia ora Trustees,

I’ve found your recently published Kahukuraariki Communication Strategy (https://www.kahukuraariki.iwi.nz/kahukuraariki-communication-strategy/) document on your website.

Guiding Principles

• Upholding Te Tiriti o Waitangi: Our communications reflect the principles of Te Tiriti, ensuring justice, equity, and partnership guide every interaction.
• Rooted in Mātauranga Māori: We honor the wisdom of our tīpuna, embedding te reo, tikanga, and kaupapa Māori in all that we say and share.
• Strengthening Whanaungatanga: Every message seeks to build and nurture relationships, fostering unity and connection within our iwi and beyond.
• Acting with Integrity: Our words are honest, our actions transparent, and our intentions grounded in the values of trust and accountability.
• Inspiring and Empowering: We speak to uplift, to encourage participation, and to remind our people of their strength, resilience, and shared purpose for the future.

It talks about the Kahukuraariki Trust Board (KTB) being open, transparent, and inclusive to all Iwi members, it talks about being honest, transparent, trustworthy, and accountable, which are great ideals, but that’s certainly not my experience over the past 3 years.

The only experience I have of this Trust Board is that it denies Iwi members access to SGM, AGM and Resolution hui minutes, excludes Iwi members from attending and speaking at AGM/SGM and hui, and blocks Iwi members from its Facebook page, denying them a channel for open transparent discussion. Additional to this, I now read that the Trust Board plan to update the Trust Deed to exclude non-registered members access to information as clearly provided for in Clauses 12 and 33 of their Trust Deed. Will all Iwi members be allowed to attend these huis, and the SGM where all will be given the opportunity to discuss the changes to the Trust Deed, or will we be excluded yet again?

Also, could also please stop saying you represent Kahukuraariki, you do not represent my ancestors; you are the Kahukuraariki Trust Board, a Crown funded entity tasked with managing settlement assets, nothing more? You do not represent all members of Ngati Kahu ki Whangaroa, and you do not hold a mandate to do so; as evidenced in the Trustee elections back in 2022, where half of the Trustees, including the current Chair, were voted in with extremely low numbers (33, 26, 32, 111=202), from a registered member database of some 3,000+ members.

Nga mihi,

Graham Williams

Member of Ngati Kahu ki Whangaroa

Jean Joseph‘s comment on Facebook – Puhi O Te Waka – Waimahana Marae Committee on 31 Dec 2024

Kiaora

Good question Valerie. IF YOU RECALL. THERE WAS A COURTCASE AGAINST GLENDITH SAMSON by Reuban Peterson to stop elected KKTB Trustee o Waimahana onto the marae to give update. The Court Injuction was not upheld by the Maori Land Court, however due to the fiction created until the marae committee recinder or when elected marae trustees invite we remain polite. However, at the recent AGM there was 3 waimahana registered beneficiaries present whom live in Waimahana. Thank goodness, it gave me hope that there are whanau who are willing to get information and question and take a stand. I hope I have answered your question about Glendith and I.

Ngamihi

Graham Williams response to Jean Joseph‘s comment on Facebook

If you read the court minutes, you’ll realize Jean Joseph‘s comments above are not correct. Reuban Peterson was not trying to stop Glendith Samson from attending the marae. He was asking the court for an injunction to stop Glendith Samson saying that she represents the Waimahana Marae, when she had not been elected or authorized to do so by the Maori Land Court approved Waimahana Marae Committee.

The ruling to decline Reuban Peterson‘s application eluded to in the minutes by Judge Armstrong below is that the Maori Land Court jurisdiction does not extend to the Kahukuraariki Trust Board as it is not a Maori Trust. The only options would be to take the matter to the High Court or the Waitangi Tribunal.

Unfortunately, Jean Joseph, Glendith Samson and the Kahukuraariki Trust Board continue to misrepresent themselves as representing the Waimahana Marae, despite not being elected nor authorized to do so by the Waimahana Marae Committee.

Maori Land Court – 179 TTK 152-168 Minutes (Reuban Peterson – 30 August 2018)

Kia ora Trustees,

The Trust Board is obligated to include all members of Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa in the process specified in Clause 33 of the KTB Trust Deed, whether they are registered or not, and as such I stand clearly within the parameters of the Trust Board. The Trust Board has failed to include all members in this process, as I was excluded from the SGM/AGM hui on the 18th June 2022, and I was denied the opportunity to present and discuss my serious concerns outlined in my letter in relation to the Resolution 1 – Ownership of Stoney Creek Station process outlined in Clause 33. The subsequent attempts to address my concerns by your GM via email, and the erroneous summary report provided by Toko have failed. My concerns remain unresolved, hence my outstanding requests for information.

My current outstanding requests that are unresolved:

1) Confirmation of my complaint in relation to being denied confirmation of my beneficiary status. Still waiting after more than a year.

2) Confirmation of my complaint in relation to being excluded from the SGM and AGM held on 18th June 2022. Still waiting after almost a year. Ms Baker has confirmed in her email below that the link provided to the SGM and AGM was to enable registered members only an opportunity to participate and/or view both hui in real time. This of cause means that non-register members were excluded, which in itself is a breach of the KTB Trust Deed Clause 33 to provide an open, transparent, and fair process to all members of Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa.

3) A full copy of the zoom recordings of the SGM and AGM that I was excluded from held on 18th June 2022. If you can’t provide this then please provide me with the contact details and authority of the communications consulting service you engaged, so I can arrange for a copy of the hui zoom recording. Also, I have an email from your office confirming the existence of the zoom recording.

4) Copy of all of the SGM documentation including agenda, advertisements, minutes, and attendance register for the SGM held in relation to Clause 33.2 of the Trust Deed. As detailed in Toko’s summary report “Schedule 2, Point C – During the consultation process and at a Special General Meeting (SGM) called to discuss Stony Creek Station”. This is not available on your website. In fact, I’m not sure your GM understands exactly what SGM I’m asking about, as I don’t believe she has a detailed understanding of your Trust Deed , specifically Clause 33.2.

5) Copy of Toko’s full report relating to the Resolution 1 and Resolution 2 engagements, consultation, and meetings: including agenda, advertisements, minutes, and attendance registers. This is not available on your website.

Unfortunately, since you refuse to provide the information, I have requested, I can only assume that the process followed, voted on and passed by your administration under Clause 33 in relation to Resolution 1 – Ownership of Stoney Creek Station, has not met the conditions laid out in Clause 33, and as such any decisions relating to this matter are null and void. This coupled with your exclusion of non-registered members is a clear breach of the process and conditions outlined in Clause 33.

Nga mihi,

Graham Williams

Member of Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa

2 December 2024

Kahukuraariki Trust Board

P O Box 788, Kerikeri 0295

By email: admin@kahukuraariki.iwi.nz

RE: Kahukuraariki AGM 2024

Dear Chair and Trust Board,

Thank you for your letter dated the 4th September 2024 responding to my letter of 5th August 2024.

Thank you for acknowledging that I have provided my whakapapa and birth certificate to the Trust Board confirming my status as a “member of Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa”; as in I whakapapa to Ngati Aukiwa.

Thank you for outlining your Trust registration process; however, I’ve never asked how I can become a “registered member” of the Trust. In providing my whakapapa and birth certificate I am providing proof that I am a “member of Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa”, and as such a beneficiary of your Trust. I do not have to register to be a beneficiary, nor do I have to register to be able to participate in and afforded access to AGM, SGM, minutes etc as per your Trust Deed. I believe this matter was addressed in my lawyer’s letter to you more than a year ago on the 25 September 2023, and again to your lawyer on the 21 November 2023. You acknowledged receiving my lawyer’s letter at the 2023 AGM, and reaffirmed receiving it again in your recently published Kahukuraaki Trust Annual Report 2024 of the 16^th September 2024. To date we have not received a reply from you nor your lawyer.

Unfortunately, by only offering to allow me to attend the latest AGM as an observer, you have yet again denied me the opportunity to participate in the latest KTB AGM; which is the third straight year that I have been denied my rights as a beneficiary.

Additionally, as requested in my previous letter, can you please provide the contact details of the new Trustees?

Yours Faithfully,

Mr Graham Williams

Member of Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa

Correspondence Address:

Graham Williams

PO Box 301347

Albany 0632