Rongowhakaata
Iwi Charitable Trust
TAURAHERE ROADSHOW
Treaty Claims Wananga for Rongowhakaata
Taurahere will be held in Auckland and Wellington
as follows:
AUCKLAND
When - Saturday 27 June 2009
Time - 10.00am – 2pm. (Lunch will be provided)
Where - Vertical Horizonz Training Centre
Unit 10, Keith Hay Drive, Manukau City
Directions
1. Leave the motorway at Manukau City.
2. Head west along Wiri Station Road.
3. Turn right into Plunket Ave.
4. Take the first left into Keith Hay Drive.
The Training Centre is at the end of the road.
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WELLINGTON
Where -Totara Room, Brentwood Hotel
16 Kemp Street, Kilbirnie
When - Sunday 28 June 2009
Time - 10.00am – 2pm. (Lunch will be provided)
AGENDA:
Presentation - Te Hau ki Turanga (THKT)
Working Party Report/Update.
Workshops:
- Management and Maintenance of THKT.
- The current state of THKT
- Audit Report on THKT.
- Future of THKT
– Long term outcome for THKT.
Debrief:
- Review of Workshops
- Where to now
Presentation: PSGE Working Party
- Identify strategy and direction for PSGE
RONGOWHAKAATA WHANAU HAPU IWI
PLEASE ATTEND!
You can see, hear and come to grips with the progress
to date on the Negotiations for the Turanganui-a-Kiwa
Treaty Settlement, and participate in the plan going
forward. The future of Rongowhakaata whanau, hapu,
Iwi is important to us so please make time to attend
these important Wananga. Have your say for the future
of our mokopuna.
NAU MAI HAERE MAI!
Postponement
Notice
The
Customary Fishing Wananga that was to have been
held on 16.05.09 at Manutuke Marae has been postponed.
New date for Wananga will be advised in due course.
Reminder Notices
Rongowhakaata
Charitable Trust Hui A Iwi To be held Saturday,
30 May 2009 at Te Kuri a Tuatai Marae commencing
at 10am. Agenda as follows:
1.
Karakia / Mihi
2. Present
3. Apologies
Chairs Report
5. Confirm Minutes of Hui A Iwi held at Te Kuri
a Tuatai Marae on 6 July 2008
6. Financial Report
a) Financial Update.
b) Confirmation of the Rongowhakaata Charitable
Trust (RCT) Annual Accounts for YE 30.06.08.
c) Confirmation of the Rongowhakaata Iwi Asset Holding
Company Annual Accounts for YE 30.06.08.
d) Confirmation of the Auditor for YE 30.06.09.
e) Confirmation of the Strategic Plan.
7.
Rongowhakaata Claims Update
a) PSGE
8.
Review of RCT
a) SMG
b)
RCT Trust Deed
9.
General Business
10. Karakia
Stan Pardoe
CHAIR
Rongowhakaata
Iwi Charitable Trust
Draft Strategic
Plan 2008 – 2013”
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here to view the draft
The
Trustees of Rongowhakaata Charitable Trust would
like input and feedback from Rongowhakaata, whanau,
hapu, iwi on the Draft Rongowhakaata Iwi Charitable
Trust Strategic Plan 2008 – 2013 (The Plan)
The Plan was tabled at a Rongowhakaata Special Hui
a Iwi held at Ohako Marae on 15.02.09 and at that
Hui, it was proposed that it be confirmed at the
next Rongowhakaata Hui a Iwi.
The next Rongowhakaata Hui a Iwi will be held on
30 May 2009 at Te Kuri a Tuatai
Marae. If you have anything to say on the Plan,
written comments/feedback can be sent by
email to: trust@rongowhakaata.iwi.nz
or
by post to: Rongowhakaata Trust,
CMB 24, Manutuke 4053.
It would be appreciated if these comments/feedback
could be sent to reach the Rongowhakaata Trust Office
before 18.05.09.”
RONGOWHAKAATA
CHARITABLE TRUST
PANUI No.31
April 2009
Tena Koutou Nga Uri o Rongowhakaata
- Cooler days and nights, the homes fires alight,
the trees shedding their leaves, the calling card
of Autumn and the harvest of the late Summer fruit
and vegetables; the grapes, feijoas, walnuts, kumara,
the last of the crops of sweet corn, squash, apples,
pears, tomatoes, kamokamo, taewa, and watermelons.
Yes back home here in Manutuke, we’ve been well
and truly blessed with the annual bountiful and abundant
supply of the sweet and succulent fruit and vegetables
of summer together with the celebrations at Easter
finds us all very well indeed.
click here to read
more of the panui
RONGOWHAKAATA
CLAIMS COMMITTEE & NEGOTIATORS
POST SETTLEMENT GOVERNANCE ENTITY WANANGA
• WHERE OHAKO MARAE, PAPATU RD, MANUTUKE
• WHEN SATURDAY, 4 APRIL 2009
• TIME 9.00 – 12.30 (LUNCH TO FOLLOW)
Agenda
| 9:00am
|
Post
Settlement Governance Entity Presentation by
Meka Whaitiri |
| |
Claims
Process & Update |
| 10:30am |
Morning
Tea |
| |
Future
PSGE for Rongowhakaata: |
| 10:45am
to 12.30pm |
•
Open forum discussion
• Workshops |
| 12:30pm |
Review
& Summary |
NOTIFICATION
OF RESOLUTIONS FOR TE HAU KI TURANGA:
The following resolutions for Te Hau ki Turanga were
passed at the Te Hau ki Turanga Wananga held at Manutuke
Marae on 7 March 2009.
• Separate out the settlement of all Te Hau
ki Turanga matters from the Gisborne Agreement In
Principle process forthwith
• Rongowhakaata to enter into direct negotiations
with the Crown on Te Hau ki Turanga as soon as possible
• Working group to prepare a Te Hau ki Turanga
settlement plan for Rongowhakaata iwi approval by
30 April
• Rongowhakaata inform all parties and stakeholders
of its intentions in regard to Te Hau ki Turanga by
15 March
RONGOWHAKAATA
CHARITABLE TRUST
Turanga Agreement
in Principal
Please note:
this is not the full and final doc as some attachments
are yet to be included.
Popo!
Popo! E tangi ana Tama ki te kai mana
Popo! The sacred being seeks sustenance and sustainability.
The ancient wisdom expressed in the oriori Popo!
has shaped the way in which Turanga Manu Whiriwhiri
has chosen to participate in the negotiations process
with the Crown.
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to download the agreement
CLAIMS
UPDATE - 11 July 08
Kia ora whanau
Thanks
to those of you who participated in the series of
wananga we had over the past year to assist our
Treaty of Waitangi negotiations. The korero at these
hui has really helped our negotiators in their meetings
with the Crown. At the last hui-a-iwi our whanau
asked for an update on the claims and some information
on the Rongowhakaata negotiation strategy.
Process
Despite our people’s desire to negotiate by
ourselves, the Crown insisted that if we wanted
to negotiate NOW we needed to do so as a collective
with other Turanga iwi. For this reason at a hui-a-iwi
whanau supported Rongowhakaata entering into negotiations
with the Crown as a collective with Ngai Tamanuhiri
and Te Pou a Hao Kai (which includes Te Aitanga
a Mahaki, Nga Ariki Kaiputahi, Whanau a Kai, Whanau
a Wi Pere and Rangi Whakataetae). Our whanau Nga
Uri o Te Kooti Rikirangi is also part of the collective
which is called Turanga Manu Whiriwhiri.
For
the past year the negotiators have been meeting
every week about our claim.
Where
we are at in the process
Turanga Manu Whiriwhiri received an initial offer
from the Crown last month. The content of this offer
is confidential because it could change a lot through
the series of discussions the negotiators will be
having over the next few weeks with the Crown.
The
negotiators are aiming to reach an Agreement in
Principle with the Crown by the end of August. The
Agreement in Principle will outline the key aspects
of the Crown’s offer for settling our claim
and will be widely consulted on.
One
of our rangatahi has been working on a communications
plan so that we are in a better position to keep
our whanau up to date with the claims.
Key
negotiation messages and information
In line with what our people have been saying at
hui-a-iwi and the evidence presented at the Waitangi
Tribunal hearings the negotiators have been reminding
the Crown that:
• Rongowhakaata was most affected by the Crown’s
invasion both in terms of LAND and LIVES LOST.
• Rongowhakaata seeks it’s own redress
package (we want to know what the Crown is specifically
offering to Rongowhakaata separate from the other
claimant groups).
• Our interests in the East Coast claim, particularly
Kaiti, Pouawa and Te Toka a Taiao, must be acknowledged.
• We want no less favourable redress than
what has occurred in other settlements.
Our
negotiators have also put forward the korero that
came out of the wananga series about the types of
things that our people would like to see in a Rongowhakaata
redress package. I have attached a copy of the Wananga
Series Report prepared by the Claims Committee
in March 2008 that lists these things.
This
korero has been put to the Crown by our negotiators.
Unfortunately there are no guarantees that we will
get everything that we ask for. However the negotiators
are trying very hard to secure the best settlement
possible for Rongowhakaata and to get as many of
the things that our people have told us that they
want to see in a redress package.
I
hope to be able to update you again in the next
month or so, on progress.
Nga mihi
Erena
Nepe
Chair, Rongowhakaata Trust
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Coordinator
Report
24
February 2008
The Rongowhakaata claim (Wai 684) was
heard by the Waitangi Tribunal
over a 2 year period and concluded in 2003. The
Tribunal released its report on the Turanga grievances
including those of Rongowhakaata in 2004. In addition
to discussing the Turanga grievances, the report
set out the Tribunal’s recommendations about
how the Crown should redress the injury and loss
suffered by Rongowhakaata and the other Turanga
groups with a view to the Turanga groups including
Rongowhakaata progressing to Negotiations with the
Crown to reach a “full and final” settlement
of the Rongowhakaata grievances.......
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