Ngati Aukiwa is fighting for their land

Hey
Thanks to the IMC editors for cleaning up the story from the post this morning..it was just too good to pass it up, but I didn't have time to do a write up.

I think that the protest was awesome. As more people raise their voices against the crown-imposed one-size-fits-all settlement process, the closer the possibility of tino rangatiratanga becomes.

TAUTOKO Kia Kaha Ngati Aukiwa

Ae, tautoko ki Ngati Aukiwa, kia kaha e te iwi nei.

How's this for a radical idea?
Let the minister go cap in hand to the Station leaseholders, compensate them for their loss of livelihood, and then GIVE THE LAND BACK, since we all know that shipping livestock or refrigerated meat out of NZ is going to be an unsustainable business within a decade... pay attention to the oilshock, Cullen!

Letting Hapu & Iwi decide how to sustainably manage land in order to be self-sustaining might just work, if the Government ever got used to the idea of allowing citizens some ability to have a real say in community self-governance.

HONOUR the Treaty, rather than this shabby proceedings which brings shame on all in Aotearoa.

"HONOUR the Treaty"

The Treaty was never honoured from its first signing till now...and that also includes the english version.

The so-called system will never admit to its massive failure all over time, it's eternal.

It has crippled people to the knees, made them redundant and depended, then it tells them to get a job? It's propaganda machine is twisted and foul it smells like a dead feminist...

krap!

i dont like your whanau

"raise the min wage and help get more teachers in front of students that will get rid of most of the problems maori say they have"

Soooo our problems is that we are moneyless dumbfucks?

Maybe she should do that herself,seeing the shit that comes out of her mouth is the shit that doe damage to this country and its people

so lets Us and the world,make them pay the price for what they intend to do to us.You treat us that way,it is only deserving that we treat you the same

I will tell you where to take your pig crap and put it. Again this is the shit created by the whiteman

I live in Kaikohe my mums whakapapa links me to both trust boards, infact all members of both trusts carry the same whakapapa I have tride many times prior to this to make contact with the mandated negotiators, by going up for meetings (that don't happen) by trying to contact via phone, email even to Office of Treaty Setlements 'no-'JOY' I wanted to see and consider the settlement for myself and my whanau
After the signing in princple I was finally able to have a look, it is very scarey, what is being given back? and to whom? Kahukuraariki have full right to lease knowing that Crown have a 50% right of money, the land wasn't settled it was gifted and finally, (some)land title has already been determined fee simple, and what whanau, organisations anywhere in NZ have government departments involved with their interests. My final coment, why have Ngati Aukiwa whanau been termed protestors, angry mob instead of seeing us as concerned benificiares to the signing and how many were there to tautoko I ask

There were the six board members; three politians; Pita Pangari+mates (Shane Jones; son etc) and three police officers. Ella Henry wasn't there; to busy giving advice I guess; mind you that didn't stop her from commenting. Apparently the 200+ protestors were nothing more than disenfranchised youth. Perhaps Ella should open her eyes and ears and use them more than her mouth.

On the other side all you had was 200+ protestors. The government (OTS) is still up to it's old tricks of anyone can claim anything if it fits in with what the government wants. You can always find greedy people to sign.

We've been fighting this since before 1841 and I guess we'll be fighting it for another 160+ years.

oh dear.not a bright lot are we!

Tena koutou

I take it that these are actions designed to provoke the Crown and or the trustboard and the rest of the iwi. However,when all parties are reconciled I take it the occupiers will simply leave the houses and return to their own whare!

Kia ora koutou

the signing of the Agreement in Principle on 22 December 2007 is the most significant action taken since our rangatira kaumatua kuia me nga tamariki hoki o era ra, first sent letters of protest to the Government beginning last century.

That we now have the extended Petersen whanau along with some other individuals, dissent from this view causes deep concern to most of us. We are whanaunga after all.However it must be made clear to everybody that though the Petersen whanau are significant in mana and number they do not make up the hapu of Ngati au Kiwi.Let it be clearly stated here the greater number of this hapu do not support the view held by the Petersen whanau.i.e that those iwi not connected to Waimahana and/or Taimaro via whakapapa have no entitlement to the land in question.This is at the core of all our raruraru.

Tena koutou
please name the descendants of Ngati Aukiwa who make up the 'working party'or should I say the'lurking party'Dont be whakama now!

Re Ngati Aukiwa working party.
who are the uri and from whom do you descend?
Are you all uri whakaheke from Paeara and are you from the male lines or the female lines?

Ko te iwi kotahi tatou!

KO te iwi o Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa

Me whakamaumahara koutou o whanaunga i runga o te Poari o Kahukuraariki a ratou mahi mo te iwi katoa.
Me mohio koutou o mahi i Taemaro o te 22nd December kei kino nui e ra mahi me nga korero ano. Ka nui te whakama o tenei kuia i o koutou mahi.
Kei te poouri tonu ahau.
Ae pea i kite mai a Paeara kia koutou ma i tera ra. Me mohio kei te pakaru koutou ma i tana ngakau.

Te iwi o Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa!

Te mea nui
HE TANGATA! HE TANGATA! HE TANGATA!

Kahore ke
he whenua! he whenua! he whenu

kahore ke

he whenua he whenua he whenua

Its a wonder Wilfred the people you work for [Telecom] dont comment on your outside activities!It certainly doesnt enhance them any.

Michael Petersen. Just because you rode horses on the station when you were a youngster does not give you ownership of it.Just because you live on it does not give you any greater rights than the rest of use either.

Hillary Thomas.
You call yourself Tamati Roha. What a joke!Your grandfather would 'kick your arse'to hear you carrying his name around and dragging it through the mud like you do.Your father Te Wano would have made you stand in the corner all day looking at the wall!
Grow up you poser!

Lets get it right Celia Robinson got up and said one kaumatua asked her to be the 'eyes and ears' not 'the mouth' for Waimahana marae on the trust board, Thelma Day didnt say anything..(typical, probably have to consult with Ella) and David Henare said he didnt speak on behalf of Puhi O Te Waka Marae (Waimahana) and didint disbute the allegation made that the Waimahana Marae trustees to the Ngatikahu Ki Whangaroa Trust Board were elected at a private residence not at Waimahana Marae. R you a bit simple or were you at another meeting....

The lies are gradually being uncovered, these people who negotiated deals not authorised by the marae they proport to represent.. how much has the Ngatikahu Ki Whangaroa Trust Board received from government funding? $200,000 at least. It would be good to see the matter heard in court, I do know for certain that the Ngati Aukiwa Hapu (represented by persons elected at Waimahana Marae hui, yep petersons, but there are also rohas, smiths, larkins, tepanias, ruhi, mundays, daltons, and the list goes on) have not received any treaty funding. All these people go to the marae to make hapu decisions not private residences, so wake up trust board admit you stuffed up and step down and let aukiwa have its land and go research your own

in your attempt to disqualify Elizabeth Peterson, how then do you qualify the lawyer and his whanau voting at a mandate hui in Waitaruke, or are they descendants of aukiwa waimahana/taemaro. korero mai.This also raises the question of every other non descendant of aukiwa resolving issues on their behalf.

Kia ora Whare Jumpers!Dont forget to keep the houses tidy mow the lawns and keep the gardens weed-free.Remember to leave your footwear outside and wash your hands before meals.Try to smile as you go about your business. Be polite to all visitors. Thank you.
The Landlord.

The Wai 116 claim began with kaumatua Teddy Emery passing on his knowledge of 'the lost lands' to Pita Pangari. After much research Pita then took the claim forward to the Waitangi Tribunal with legal counsel Richard Hawk assisting.There, the claim was recognised as genuine and a number Wai 116 was allocated to it.On all legal documents since that numbeer is attached when speaking of 'the lost lands' Of note Bully Peterson and Percy Tatai did not enter those discussions until at least ten years after Teddy Emery first spoke to Pita Pangari about 'the lost lands'These are the lands now being returned to our iwi should we vote Yes for settlement.

Rider to previous comment.
Kia ora whanaunga
It is correct that you dont receive any treaty funding from the Trustboard nor does any other of our marae unless of course we use them for hui then we give a koha. Primarly the funding is for things like the running of the Mangonui Office, payment of staff who man it,electricity phone office product postage etc.
It is not cheap to run an office ask around.
You do not permit us to use the marae at Waimahana so we never go there even though you dont own it, we would rather not have an unseemly row about it.
So we hold hui at other places most often Waitaruke.

Also once a month trustees are paid petrol money to attend hui,the amounts vary it depends on where one lives and how far one needs to travel e.g Kawerau to Waitaruke.And it just covers the cost of running a car believe me.You know what petrol costs are like so, you wont get rich sitting on this board thats for sure.
If you would like to see a regular monthly financial spreadsheet of the board I m sure it can be arranged.
Have a great day whanaunga.

Kia ora whanaunga

Please direct me to where I can get the minutes and reports to which you refer.

I will of course pass on your comments to the Taemaro and Waimahana trustees Im sure they wont mind me mentioning their names.

Sandra HeiHei _ Taemaro
Alec Aperahama

Thelma Day - Waimahana
Celia Robinson

They are all lovely people,intelligent and very kind an absolute asset to their hapu and the iwi as a whole.

Mihi mai whanaunga.

Can anyone explain why the Taemaro (Sandra) and Waimahana (Thelma) trustees report to a private residence rather than their own marae?

Can someone please send me the financial spreadsheets, statements, minutes etc to paeara@ihug.co.nz?

I've contacted the Office of Treaty Settlements in Wellington for the precise funding amount and details but they won't release any details to me. Can someone on the board request these details and send them to me?

Have you ever stopped to think why Teddy Emery didnt talk to Bully Peterson and Co about the history of our whenua?As we all know he chose instead to speak with Pita Pangari.Go figure.
What did Teddy know that we dont know of Bully Peterson,Michael Peterson and Co?Did he foresee their greed overrriding everything,that they would ruin the iwi if necessary to have their way.Just look around you today.
The iwi must stand up to this terrible behaviour of 'one of our own'and not permit it to go for much longer.

Roka did.[Teddys sister to you} Go figure.

There is so much needed to be done at your marae why dont you go and sort it all out down your way.

Hi; paeara (at) ihug.co.nz here! I never got those financial reports for dec/jan/ 07/08. Can someone please send them to me?

yeah you guys posted the AIP photos on this website.And how close is your whanau to Paeara anyway? If I were you I wouldnt be demanding anything of Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa I would instead live out my days quietly in Taemaro and enjoy the company of others who are better informed.
Noho ora mai tauiwi!

Me mohio koe a 'Paeara@ihug.co.nz' kei te titiro tonu te iwi kia koe me o tuhituhi hoki.
Ano to ahua hoki kia matou nei kei te ahuaatua ke. Mo te aha?
Ano mehemea e pa ana to whanau kia Paeara ae marika anaianei me tika hoki o tuhituhi me to ahua hoki
Nga mahi o Te Poari o Kahukuraariki kei te pakeke tonu.Me haere mai koe ki nga hui o te Poari i reira me tu koe, ka kite te katoa ia koe, korero mai kia matou aha ke o hiahia, kaua e tu mai i muri o te kuaha e korero ana koe kia koe ano!

Ae pea ko tae mai te ra me ako koe i te reo.
[Perhaps the day has arrived for you to begin to learn the language]

Kahore.

Can someone please send me any financial spreadsheets, statements, minutes etc to paeara (at) ihug.co.nz?

They might shut up now. I dont want anything to do with pie in the sky whanaunga that behave the way they do.Shame on you the Kelly family[Hazel Williams] of Taemaro.

Hi it's paeara@ihug.co.nz here!

Wow! So much love going on here. Isn't it great being a maori Ella?

So; are you ashamed of your iwi fighting for what has been stolen from them? We should be fighting the theiving government not each other.

I am a direct descendant of Paeara; I suggest you stop reading Pita's story book. My uncle Teddy would be ashamed of you questioning his kaumatua status.

Am I wrong to think that the Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa Trust Board represents the entire iwi including Taemaro? If so; why shouldn't I demand things from them? Aren't they a Trust Board? Don't they have a legal responsibility to keep their members informed? I've been asking the Trust Board simple questions since January 2008; but they refuse to response in a civil manner. I don't know why; but it doesn't look good.

All my love, Paeara Family

Re: "oh dear.not a bright lot are we!"

Very inciteful; can you please explain? Otherwise isn't your comment an oxymoron.

Enjoy your 5 minutes!

Haven't even started kupapa!

So you think you know who I am? What a load of rubbish; you don't even know your own whakapapa. When the pakeha government does come hunting for true Maori to patu; I know where you'll be; hiding behind them kupapa!

I realise Pita has been writing the history books but did he really tell you that Teddy Emery wasn't a direct descendant of Paeara?

So what exactly are you smoking? It must be good shit for you to be so deluded kupapa!

sorry for the delay tauiwi I was over at Facebook reading and looking at some interesting shit real interesting...

you really ought to get te reo sorted out tauiwi
do you really know what kupapa means its...
if your'e going to use Maori terms do try to use them in the correct context...and yeah Facebook was mmm...taken on AIP signing day in Taemaro from not sure where...pretty good shots though...

Thanks for the explaination above; I thought I used it correctly; perhaps your short course in Maori was a bit to short Kupapa?

"A Māori who is seen as being on the Pākehā side and acting against the interests of the Māori community."

kupapa= v.i lie flat,remain quiet, become passive, be neutral in a quarrel,a term applied to the friendly Maoris during the wars of the sixties which is what Paeara was!
kupapa=adj. at a low level
kupapa= n.tetrapathaea tetandra a climbing plant,
a pattern of ornamental lattice-work for interior of a house.

again happy days tauiwi

A DICTIONARY OF THE MAORI LANGUAGE
H W WILLIAMS M.A

should you wish to check out te reo Maori.

Best there is tauiwi.

Kupapa you dont represent anyone except yourself and once the wider iwi know all the facts you will be quickly forgotten and discarded.

By the way Paeara acted for the interests of the Maori community; he wasn't a sell out like you.

thats it Tauiwi no more to say to you for I must get on with my studies.
When all the votes are counted it will define the future for the iwi and that is how it should be.
Those who have remained static in their thinking with little vision will surely be overcome by the tide of history that is surging in.
The time of hope expectation and a bright future for the mokopuna is almost upon us.
The past has already been lived the future awaits.
Noho ora mai tauiwi.

noho ora mai tauiwi.

Kia Ora,

I've been asking the Kahukuraariki Trust Board the following questions since January 2008; but unfortunitely I haven't received a straight answer from any of them to date.

1) Pita Pangari (Peter Pangari) is not toto; he was adopted into our hapu and believes he had a vision/calling to continue leading our people in this claim. Additionally, Pita continues to claim both his natural and adopted hapu. Yes or No?

2) The Ngati Kahu ki Whangaroa Trust Broad is not a legal entity it is represented legally as the "Kahukuraariki Trust Board". How is it audited
and held accountable to the trust members?

3) How are the trust members vetted?

4) How often are trust board member elections held?

5) Can you please tell me when we will be voting on the government's offer? Also; when we do vote on their offer do the trust board plan to have the
voting register and the vote itself independently audited; by say E&Y? This will hopefully ensure that the result won't be contested; perhaps the
government might fund this?

Paeara Family

Can someone please send me any financial spreadsheets, statements, minutes etc to paeara (at) ihug.co.nz?

When all the audited votes are counted it will define the future for us.

Those who have remained selfish in their thinking with no vision will be overcome.

Hope, expectation and a bright future for the mokopuna has always been there.

The past has already been lived and should be respected not discarded; our future is out there so let's take it.

Kia ora Cuz (Wilfred Jnr), Uncle and Aunty and the many whanau from Taemaro and Waimahana

Gee, the NKK trust board and there stupid group of wannabes are going to get caught in all there lies, who do you think you are NKK? You thieves, the land that is being fought for (Stoney Creek Station) does not belong to NKK, Ngati Aukiwa doesn't want land that doesn't belong to them, they only want what is there’s.

Taemaro and Waimahana had the land taken from them you dumb eggs. Who are these other marae that are trying to steal something that is not their whenua. You have your own whenua if you don't have land to claim back from the government don't take what doesn't belong to you.

Wilfred Snr and Jnr are beneficiary owners from Waimahana and have more rights to the Stoney Creek Station than the other so called whanau marae. Get your own land back if you have any and stop stealing Ngati Aukiwa's land.

NKK you thieving mongrels you are an entity made from deceit and lies. When your deceit comes out by your own admission in documents from the government, I will be their to see your downfall.
You will all be shamed into recognising the true owners you thieves.

Kia kaha
Ngati Aukiwa supporter

Ownership of Stoney Creek is now in question pple Hemi Rua Paeara is the name on the Land Deed when it was taken by the pakeha government,It is also the name that Pita Pangari has used on the 116 claim, But Pita has lied about his whakapapa,to elevate himself as a claimant,

Now for the Trust Board setup by Pita under a mandate he receieved from the pple of Taemaro and other Marae including Waimahana ,First and foremost Pita never once told any land owners of Taemaro that the Trust Board he plan to setup with others would strip the owners of their rights as owners,never once did Pita or his legal Advisors say,that owners could not have a say to how their land was used, how do I know because I was the SEC for the team that took the kaupapa and mandate to our whanau at the Hui at Waitaruki,in 1997
and I still have the minutes and notes to all the meeting of that interim Team held

But first and foremost let me acknowledge Uncle Bully for his stubboness to not let go of his insight to maintain at all times the mana of his tupuna let me tell you all, thank God Uncle Bullys refusal to give his blessing too, that Hui for that I am extremely grateful for,because now the rightful owners will claim what my Tupuna Hemi Rua and all the other whanau mentioned in Hemi Rua.s claim all those many years ago and what they all died for.

The rightful owners will seek ownership as the mokopuna to all those Tupuna for Stoney Creek.And one of those mokopuna is Wilford Petersen and his whanau who have every right to be on that land at Stoney Creek because he and his siblings are owners of Stoney Creek, not the NgatiKakhu Ki Whangaroa Trust Board.

As for Pita my reason for leaving the proposed Trust Board Of Ngatikahu Ki Whangaroa Trust back in the late 1990s were that I asked your legal advisor Richard Hawke a question about the landowners rights (which included me)and his reply was he represents only Pita and from that moment I recognised that you Pita had duped all thoses pple and from there on I refuse to recognise your Trust Board in any concept,on the grounds that,

Pita you lied about my Tupuna HEMI RUA PAEARA and all the old pple no longer with us, in the whakapapa you yourself Pita made up and presented in your wai 116 claim

But little did you realise Pita that the old pple had passed the whakapapa down and now you are being challenged by Hemi Rua,s mokopuna,s and that in its self will now reflect on where you go too with the Trust Board

Futhermore I have seen comments on this site about Teddy Emery and others who have since passed on ,for what ever reasons you all want to speak about our Tupuna, BE AWARE it has its costs as well.

Another corection also Richard Hawke and his Whanau did not vote for the mandate at Waitaruki in fact he withdrew from the meeting,And the endorsement came from the Kuia and kuamatua who were there on the day

On knowledge passed on by Ted Emery yes there are allegations that Pita stole the information that was written down in a book, that book has never been returned by Pita even though he was seen with the book by one of Pita,s own whanau,when the book disappeared Pita denies taking the Book but the person (a young man at the time,Pita knows who he is ) whose saw Pita with the book has step up to the mark and challenged Pita.Funny thing though the book went missing when Pita left and has not been seen since,Tell me why would a young man want such a book that was of no use to him.The young man only found out the important of that book after it went missing and he got the blame for the book been lost,And this young man has suffered since, pple can come to their own conclusion

And another thing Uncle Bully had been talking with Peter about TAEMARO and Stoney Creek long before Peter started the research for wai 116 claim application, you pple need to get you facts right,for alot of the pple who were there at the very beginning excluding Uncle Bully from the very onset of Pita,s claim is rubbish

Well thats it from me and Pita you have alot of explaining to do to me

Marie Paul

Also, for the other Marae who have willingly allowed themselves to take part in the possessing of whenua belonging to Taemaro and Waimahana - do the right thing and move on. You do not whakapapa back to Taemaro as far as the whenua is concerned. Having a common ancestor like Kahukuraariki does not entitle you to uplift taonga belonging to other marae. Sharing in the carve up of whanaunga from another marae is disgraceful. You might have been ignorant from the start but by now you know that you should not be participating in a Treaty claim that deprives and steals the whenua belonging to whanaunga from another marae. Shame on you! Leave while you still have a shred of decency left in your big toe or toes.

Hi paeara@ihug.co.nz here!!!

I've created a web site which has all of the funding payments made by OTS to NKKWTB; it also details NKKWTB's creative expense claims. Interestingly, of the $253,000 paid to date to the NKKWTB; there seems to be about $43,000 unaccounted for.

http://www.ngatikahukiwhangaroa.com

Regards, Paeara Family

The reason this site exists is because the NKKWTB refused to talk openly; have held hui in private and have had private discussions with the Government (OTS). The have also claimed expenses that aren't just and produce minutes from huis months after the event which don't reflect the iwi view.

As well as being lead by dictorial/overbearing chairpersons who force their agendas and beliefs on our iwi.

Point taken; perhaps we could setup a registered iwi members only website; which would have closed iwi only discussion groups and voting on iwi issues? We could get paeara@ihug.co.nz to set it up on www.ngatikahukiwhangaroa.com? What do you think?

i think you have made a great suggestion Paeara.ihug. You set it up and then let us know on your website, and you will find a lot of the whanau will come to it. Till then, kia ora.

Hi paeara (at) ihug.co.nz here!!!

I'll start working on it as soon as I can; if anyone has any suggestions on what it should look like or how it should work then please feel free to send me an email at paeara@ihug.co.nz; or just visit www.ngatikahukiwhangaparoa.com to see how I've progressed.

Regards, Paeara Family

Time for the Ngatikahu Ki Whangaroa Trust board to be removed from the Treaty process. Time for change. Time for you landgrabbers to move on. We don't want you in our Treaty claim.

By landgrabbers I mean people who cannot whakapapa back to Taemaro or Waimahana. I mean the people who are now trying to steal it from their relis. shame on you and may you get a million boils on your scabby bums the lot of you. I wonder where all that money went to aye? Maybe to put someones kid through school or to concrete someones driveway. Maybe to go for a trip to Aussie? The real question is which Marae committee member has been helping himself/herself to funding that was supposed to be spent on building their marae? food for thought aye? Anyone noticed a hive of activity lately at a certain marae that hasnt been built yet? Twenty years is an awful long time to be holding onto funds for the marae when no marae is sitting there, aint it? Aue whats that sound? Sounds like someone packing them bags in a big hurry and flying to Oz.

There are a lot of people/whanau/hapu who abhor the idea of being told by government and the Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa trustes/negotiators/advisers that we whananu/hapua are being forced to become beneficiaries of Ngati Aukiwa hapu of the Stoney Creek Station. This is not only about Ngati Aukiwa losing it's land to non decendents,it is also about displacing whananu/hapu with regade to tupuna whenua. We believe that Ngati Aukiwa hapu on the Stoney Creek Block are doing a thankless job for many ungrateful people. Keep up the good work, there are many other hapu out there wishing they had the committment of some of their people to do the same

Hi paeara (at) ihug.co.nz here!!!

Well after three and a half months I've finally got all of the NKKWTB mandate documentation from OTS; 190 odd documents. I'll put them up on www.ngatikahukiwhangaroa.com website as soon as I can.

Regards, Paeara Family

Whatever your gender, it was a woman who gave birth to you, no matter how impressed you are with yourself. Without that woman you would never of been born. Kahukuraaiki was a female. Stop hiding behind trees.

If Pita is writing a book we as descendants should make enquiries as to whether or not we as descendants agree to him usuing our tupuna names in any written audio form by Pita. That the material collected over the years throughout the claimis able to be used without theconsent of the descendants of our tupuna. He has already made unsubstatiated changes, altered whakapapa,stolen documents to name a few. Think about all the lies verbal, written since the very begining, i.e.written document statsing he had never written the word Ngatikahu in the broken form. ALL LIES AYE PITA see 2nd doc to Koro Wetere.

what have you done for your hapu that the second step on the rung. Iwi comes next, now then what have you done for your iwi. land reseach, met with the kaumatua of direct descent, walked the whenua walked the talk. we have seen what bully and other old fullas have done unfortunately for you your ignorance says it all, sitting down writing rubbish like yours is a luxury they don't have time to do. Anyway they are of a different calibre to people like you kanohi kite kanohi is what they believe in not through the back door as is the style of many of those you support in leading yous. Tautoko bully, dobin hazel and all the whanau kia kaha

hey man where shall i start, heard all about it.

As for all you MEN who think that you have the right to stand over the rest of us - Kahukura ariki is where you descend from, and it is your own fault if you spend half your time thinking your are superior to any of the women in your rohe. I am not speaking about Uncle Wilfred or the Peterson whanau, I am talking about all you big shots that have come on-board to shore up support for the Ngatikahu Ki Whaingaroa trust board and its disgraceful attempts at a landgrab. You men, who think you are the ones who carry the mana of our rohe? Since when did any of you stand up for the people of Taimaro, when you knew that the NKKW Trust board was ripping it away from its original owners? Since when? You all sat back and watched as Pita Pangari and his band of thieves set about uplifting our whenua from us and you did nothing about it. Don't start trying to muscle your way into the picture now or trying to undermine Wilfred and his whanau. YOu had your chance to do something and you sat back and DID NOTHING. Now you want to muscle your way in and take control of Stoney Creek Farm and all the lands that belonged to our hapu. You, the ones who sat back and did nothing - suddenly you want to BE SOMETHING. You had your chance - but you sat idly by while the NKKW trust board helped itself to funding to pry our taonga from us.,The worst of all is that you descend back to Taimaro, and here you are, gifting our whenua to your mates on the NKKW Trust board. You know who you are. Do yourself a favor and save yourself the embarassment of being chastised on public television for your shameless landgrabbing.

Kahukura ariki is often used to exploit the people of Taimaro. By using Kahukura ariki, the proponents of the Ngatikahu Ki Whangaroa Trust board have obliterated all the tupuna in-between. Kahukura ariki goes back 20 generations. After her, came many of our tupuna, who went on to have hapu with their own area of whenua. The people of Taimaro had their own area of whenua too and it was taken from them - and them alone - not anyone else. Wilfred Peterson and others have fought a lone battle to have that whenua returned, but freeloaders like the Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa Trust board (which is made up of 5 Marae committees and its corporate arm - the Kahukura Ariki Trust)have tried to muscle in on whenua that they don't own, and can never whakapapa back to - UNLESS of course - they quote Kahukura ariki. What is so disgusting, is that these same marae (three in particular) have never offered up their own whenua or taonga to the people of Taimaro. They keep it for themselves while pillaging what belongs to US. I don't mean all of the people from these other marae - I mean, specifically the representatives on their marae committees who represent the NKKW Trust. In the 1800s it was the Crown that deceitfully stole our whenua, but now it is our own whanaunga hiding behind the Ngatikahu Ki Whangaroa trust board, who are doing it to us. You will never win. Don't you know the game is up?

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kia ora Peter for your korero. It is very heartwarming to know that whanau like yourself save to come back for the holidays each year and we hope you keep coming home to Aotearoa each summer.

I've added the latest funding details from OTS to the NKKWTB onto our website (www.ngatikahukiwhangaroa.com). Total claimed and received to date by the NKKWTB is $403,000. Please visit the website above for the facts around this claim.