Tena koutou e te whanau o
Paeara,
I have noted the exchanges of
correspondence between our office and yourselves since the letter from the
Ministers office dated 14 October 2009 in which the Minister advised “It is
the mandated entity’s responsibility to communicate with its claimant
community”. The Minister also advised that TPK was available to assist you
with contacting Kahukuraariki Trust Board if you wished to receive
assistance.
Following your request for our
help I asked Ian Peters one of our regional Kaiwhakarite to contact you
regarding the concerns you had raised and provide any contact details that he
may have for the Trust Board or its Board Members. I also advised that I was
happy to provide you with a contact list for Iwi to communicate your website
address as it would be inappropriate for TPK to do so.
In regards to the Iwi contact
list I apologise that this hasn’t already been sent. A table of contact
details that are publicly available through the Iwi websites or the telephone
directory is provided below.
In regards to your request to
assist with communicating with the Trust Board, It is not unreasonable for us
to request (as Ian has done) your contact details so that he may engage with
you in person to discuss. I do not agree that we are withholding information
from you. To date all your correspondence with our office and the Ministers
Office has been via email requesting an email address for the Trust Board. Yet
by your own admission the Trust Board refuse to respond to your emails. The
supply of an email address for the Trust Board does therefore seem to be a
futile exercise. However to respond to your request provided here is the last
known email address we have for the Trust Board nkkwtrustboard@xtra.co.nz, which
is the same address that you have on your website.
We can’t force the Trust Board
to respond to your emails and we can’t provide you with any personal contact
details without the permission of the individual/s. However, through the
relationships that TPK has there is an opportunity to facilitate/broker
communication between yourself and the Trust Board. To aid that process we
need to be able to have open dialogue with you and the Trust Board. As you are
not willing to do so then there is little else we can do to assist you any
further.
As you already know who the
Trust Board members, Negotiators and Legal Counsel are, perhaps you can do a
search of the public records and see what you can locate? E.g. Internet,
White Pages, Telephone Directory.
Ngâ
Mihi
Walter
Wells
_______________________________________
Regional
Director
Relationships
& Information l Te
Taitokerau Regional Office
Te
Puni Kôkiri l
Level 2 Tai Tokerau Maori Trust Board Building
3 - 5
Hunt Street l
Private Bag 9026 l
Whangarei
DDI (09)
430 3263 l Fax (09)
430 3160 l Mob
(0272) 263 882
Email: wellw@tpk.govt.nz l website: www.tpk.govt.nz
From:
paeara@ihug.co.nz [mailto:paeara@ihug.co.nz]
Sent: Wednesday, 11
November 2009 9:49 p.m.
To: Walter Wells
Cc: P Sharples
(MIN); Ian Peters; Liz Makene
Subject: Re: Non-Communication of
Ngati Kahu Ki Whangaroa Trust Board to it's
members
Unfortunately Mr
Peters is refusing to provide me with the information I have asked for; I
would have thought that this information would be freely available under
the Official Information Act. Is it possible for you to provide me
with the email contact details for NKKWTB as the published email
addresses I have on my website for Ella Henry, Pita Pangari and
the NKKWTB no longer work. I would have gone to the NKKWTB website for
this information but it is no longer active.
Additionally, I
have not received an iwi email list from Liz Makene as yet. I've emailed her
asking to send me the list; however I haven't received a reply as yet. Can you
please help me?
----- Original
Message -----
Sent: Tuesday,
November 10, 2009 8:16 AM
We have made inquiries re communicating with the
Kahukuraariki Trust Board and have had no difficulty in making contact with
them, also it is noticed on your web site that you have their contact
details and the list of the Trust Board and negotiators. It is evident to us
that their lack of communication with your group is primarily due to the
fact that you refuse to give them your personal details (name, phone number
etc) which is also my experience. When the ministers requested our
assistance I requested personal details so we could enter into
meaningful dialogue however you have chosen to ignore those request
and instead accuse us of withholding information. I suggest that you need to
declare who you are before the trust Board is prepared to communicate with
your whanau.
Ian Peters
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