I’ve managed to obtain these Deed of Settlement documents dated December 2014 from OTS. Unfortunately the NKKWTB aren’t willing to provide the latest versions to our Iwi, but perhaps someone could ask them for the latest copy. While your at it could you please also ask them for a copy of the Draft PSGE Constitution as well?

51338514_Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa – General Matters_(v10)

51338681_Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa – Documents_(v10)

51338996_Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa – Attachments_(v6)

51336865_Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa – Deed of Settlement_(v11)

51338373_Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa – Property Redress_(v10)

Letter from Richard Hawk re Draft PSGE Constitution; which the NKKWTB will be seeking acceptance at the 16th May 2015 Hui.

07052015090855-0001

AGENDA 16 May 2015

SUBJECT: Agenda

VENUE: Otangaroa Marae

DATE: 16 May 2015 TIME: 10.00 am

________________________________________________________________________

1. General Business
2. Treasurer – Financial Report: See attached – Bills to be paid – Budget (claimant funding)
3. Outwards Correspondence: See attached
4. Inward Correspondence: See attached
5. Matters Arising
6. Minutes of Previous Meeting The minutes of the hui held at Waihapa Marae on the 21 March 2015
7. Apologies
8. Mihimihi
9. Karakia
   1. Consideration to accept draft PSGE Constitution
   2. Report of meeting with OTS  DOC Covenants  Stony Creek  Redress of Kowhairoa
   3. Report of the Overlapping Claims meeting with Ngati Kahu (Chair)
   4. Trustees Travel (Manaaki)

Well, the Crown have done a 180% on their offer back in July 2014, and will be giving everything back to the NKKWTB, despite numerous objections.

NKKWTB continue to make a joke of their mandate by not meeting their mandate obligations; which OTS support.

OTS continue to enable NKKWTB rather than pro-actively encouraging an amicable resolution between our Iwi.

The NKKWTB refuse to provide open and transparent communication. There have been questions raised on this site; however the NKKWTB have failed to take the opportunity to openly engage with the people they claim to represent.

A PSGE Constitution has been drafted, this is despite our Iwi not having voted on the AIP. On May 16, the NKKWTB will be seeking acceptance of the PSGE Constitution without proper consultation with our Iwi. Ella Henry is somehow running the PSGE, but I don’t remember reading that being voted on either.

The NKKWTB are planning to sign away our lands and future this June, despite the Crown’s latest offer not being presented or voted on by our Iwi.

The gallery on the Jackson Russell website shows Richard Hawke. This is the person who is the legal advisor to the Trust Board, and has been since Peter Pangari introduced him to the Trust Board.

What relationship does Jackson Russell have to the Trust Board, or is their relationship only restricted to Richard Hawke? What are the terms of engagement between the TB and JR?

The JR website arrogantly declares “we’re almost as old as New Zealand itself”; white NZ that is, and the staff makeup reflects this. It also proudly states in its history summary:

“1865 – 1890s: For the next 20 years or so the firm, like others in Auckland at that time, was much engaged in legal work connected with land speculation and gold mining.”

The JR website boasts, their support in the legalized theft of Maori land on a scale unprecedented either before or since! It was a time of unbridled greed on the part of white settlers to ‘disengage’ Maori from their land by whatever means necessary. Legal firms of the time assisted in this ‘disengagement’ making it legal.

No doubt some of the funds that have found there way into the coffers of this firm were derived at the expense of our people. How much of the $800,000+ funding received from OTS has flowed to JR over the years?

How can our people sanction such a firm as this to be our advisors?

Who is this guy Hawke ? Where does he come from ? Who are his people ? Who does he belong to ? These are valid questions for they give us an ‘insight’ into the man.

Were these questions ever asked before engaging this man?

Similar scrutiny is required for Pangari.

It is time to bring these two in from ‘the cold’.

28 September 2014

The Possum Diaries

By Edwin Emery

Once upon a time, on the road between Waitaruke and Waimahana, there lived a whanau of brown possums. They would come out at dusk, onto the tar-sealed road. Here they would soak up the heat from the asphalt, as possums do.

Unbeknownst to this whanau ,hurtling down this road, toward them, was a white SUV. It came round a corner at a blistering pace. Bright shinning lights – ahhh! Jesus had come to save us – the possums thought. They all looked up & yelled out in unison : “Working Party!”, as the white SUV ran them over. The white SUV receded into the distance, the dying light caught the number plate :  ‘OTS’ !

Moral of the story :

Possum Rules

1. Make up your mind what kind of possum you are, possums.
2. You can scream as much as you like – those in the white SUV will never hear you.
3. Study & learn the Road Code.
4. The SUV, like your feet, gets you along the road – just faster.
5. Control the Road & You will control Your Destiny & the Destiny of those in the SUV.

SUV Rules

1. Never get out of the vehicle.
2. If a possum is in your way – bowl it.
3. Occasionally you may stop and let a possum in – they must know the password :“Uncle Tom”.
4. Now & again throw your fast food scraps out the window. Some possums love it and say “Thank you, Bwana.”
5. Remember – if you lose control of the road – you, in turn, will become a possum.

David Tapsell’s (OTS) response to the letter from the Ngati Aukiwa Working Group dated 12 September 2014.

In summary, the Ngati Aukiwa Working Group told the Crown that the NKWTB no longer had the mandate and that the Crown needed to negotiate with them not just for Stoney Creek Farm but the Thompson and Clarke blocks as well. The Crown’s response was very blunt as per the attached letter. David Tapsell (Crown Facilitator) told the Working Group that the Crown only recognized the NKWTB as holding the mandate to negotiate, and that he would need to seek the Minister’s direction.

Letter to Moana Tuwhare

Letter to Edwin Emery from Mr Finlayson – Ngati Aukiwa working party (10 Sep 2014)

Response to Mr Finlayson’s Letter of 10 Sep 2014 (15 Sep 2014)