Jackson WillieHon WILLIE JACKSON (Minister for Māori Development): Ka tanuku ka tanuku ka tanuku te tihi o maunga nui a hā he kapo ki te whetū he kapo ki te marama he kapo ki tātou kei aku raukura ka riro rā he tangi ana te ngākau i te rironga a Whetumarama Wereta īnanahi nei. Nō reira e kui he tika ki te maumahara tō mahi mō Te Ao Māori he wahine toa he wahine matatau nō reira e kui moe mai moe mai moe mai rā. [The mountain there yonder has collapsed. Snatch the stars snatch the moon snatch humankind as it does our departed have gone from us. My heart aches for the loss of Whetumarama Wereta only yesterday. Therefore it is right to pay homage to your tireless efforts for the world of the Māori a courageous woman a wise woman and so rest well rest well rest well in peace.]I want to support the previous speaker in his beautiful poroporoaki. We're starting off by saluting this kui who's died and one of the—as most Māori members in the House know—most influential kui and Māori women in recent years Whetu Wereta. She was a Māori statistician whom there were very few of and had a huge influence in terms of people around Wellington. She trained people like Peter Douglas which must have been tough but she also trained Peter Douglas who's with the Prime Minister's office and Geoff Short one of our finest bureaucrats. She trained my wife also and was a mentor for my wife. I wanted to just mention her today because I was listening to the member Tama Potaka with his beautiful poroporoaki and I wanted to tautoko that because some of these kui some of these wāhine are very much some of the unsung heroes of Te Ao Māori. Her husband of course was a bit of a star—Tūmanako as we know. But she was the tuarā—she was the backbone. She was brilliant. A lot of people are going out and I want that member to hoatu taku aroha ki tōna whānau [pay my respects to her family] when he goes out to pay his respects and she'll be going to Rātana Pā on Saturday. She was manager for the Māori Statistics and the Ministry of Māori Development. She also spent time at the Department of Internal Affairs. She rejoined the Department of Statistics as the general manager and Whetu served on the New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO. She was a member of the five-person 1985-86 New Zealand Royal Commission on the Electoral System. We salute her we remember her and we thank her and her whānau for her contribution to this country.In terms of today's bill in terms of Ngāti Tara Tokanui I'm very happy along with other members to tautoko our kaupapa today. While this is the first reading I think we're all just making different points. As I was reading through this and looking to the—listening to the Chair and others talking about this kaupapa I can't help but be absorbed by the story of the rangatira Te Keepa Raharuhi who like many of our people had faith in the system in 1868 and he entered into agreements for gold prospecting and mining on Ngāti Tara Tokanui lands in the hope that his people Ngāti Tara Tokanui could retain ownership of their land and gain income from leases in mining agreements. Instead sadly the Native Land Court processes left Ngāti Tara Tokanui in debt and the Crown's lease arrangements for mining at Ōhinemuri did not provide Ngāti Tara Tokanui any income from goldmining on their lands. That story from that rangatira is replicated in so many settlements that it can bring you to tears. It's something that when I was going through the settlement I thought that this story has just been retold and said in so many settlements and I just want to salute that rangatira's legacy. He's someone to remember and I'll talk further on this kaupapa as we get into the second and third reading. Tika ana ki te maumahara tēnei rangatira tana mahi ki te kokiri te kaupapa kokiri te kaupapa i ngā wā katoa he poto te kōrero i tēnei wa Madam Speaker. Tēnā tātou katoa.[It is right to pay homage to this esteemed individual his esteemed efforts to take charge of this matter to always carry out the work that needs doing. I'll keep my speech short at this stage Madam Speaker. Thank you all very much.]