I have attended 2 of the Roadshow Hui’s both in Auckland and at Waitaruke Marae. I am troubled by the Trust Boards inability to listen to the whanau, and their obivious desire to go settlement by 2014 (July) as stated in their Hui minutes for May 2013.
All through the roadshow the Trust Board have maintained that these Hui were only to give us information on the “process” to reach settlement and that any decisions need to be made by the iwi. However when a proposal was made at the Waitaruke Marae Hui for the Trust Board to host a wananga to address all the concerns and issues raised by the iwi during the roadshow, the chairman said ” these roadshows have been a wananga! I don”t think so.
Althought some of the concerns and issues were discussed in the hui, few if any were actually resolved. The Trust Board must host a wananga to address all the concerns and issues raised by the iwi during the roadshow.