Horomia Parekura: Ngati Pahauwera Treaty Claims Settlement Bill — Third Reading 
Horomia Parekura: Ngati Pahauwera Treaty Claims Settlement Bill — Third Reading 
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Hon PAREKURA HOROMIA (Labour—Ikaroa-Rawhiti) 
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 Tena koe. Ki a koutou o Pahauwera e tae tahi e tae kaha atu i konei i te wahi o te Whare Miere e mihi kau ana i a koutou. Nga mea pakeke Haami koutou katoa nga kuia nga koroua e mihi kau ana. Tena koutou mo to kaha rawa e tae ana e peka ana i konei hei rongo ki te korero o tatau e mahi atu pera i to tatau Minita Maori. No reira tena koutou.  
Na te pai o te rangi nei ko tenei te timata o te otinga mo koutou. Ahakoa te roaroa haere o te whakaae kua whakaae atu koutou kua tae atu i konei i te manaaki atu. Mo ratau e rere atu pera i a te whaea a Sophie a Tom a ratau ma e tangi hoki te ngakau. Engari na te pai hoki kei te ora kaha atu te ahua o Pahauwera. No reira tena koutou.  
Mo te koroua a Charlie King kare au e kite e mihi kau ana. Ahakoa te tangata o Nanaia e mihi atu ki a Charlie ki a koutou katoa tena koutou. A tena koe e te Minita e Chris e pai ana i tae atu tatau i konei hei oti pai tenei. He tino take atu tenei to tatau Minita a Pita mo ratau o tera wahi.  
He tika atu nga korero mo te pakanga e ngaro atu te whenua e tangohia atu to ratau wahi a te Kawana e te mahi taurekareka ki a ratau. Ahakoa i nga wahi o Te Heru o Tureia i te wahi o Mohaka te wahi o Raupunga i reira ke e mahi atu nga mahi. No reira e pai ana e tae atu tatau i konei. Ahakoa e tu kaha atu nga maunga i reira to ratau awa o Mohaka he tino rekareka atu i te tae atu tatau i konei mo tenei otinga.  
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Thank you. I wish to acknowledge Ngati Pahauwera who have come here as one to the Beehive. To the elders including Haami greetings. I congratulate you on your strength in coming here to listen to those of us like the Minister of Maori Affairs. And so I salute you.  
Because it is a beautiful day this is the beginning of the end of the process for you. Although the process took a long time you have given your consent and are here to take care of the matter. I mourn those who have passed away such as Sophie and Tom. But it is wonderful that the nature of Ngati Pahauwera is clearly felt. And so I thank you.  
I wish to greet the elder Charlie King whom I cannot see here. Although he is Nanaia’s man I congratulate Charlie and all of you. Thank you. I want to congratulate the Minister Chris; it is great that we are completing this bill. This is an important matter to our Minister Pita and to those from that area.  
The stories about the wars are correct: their land was taken by the Crown through its despicable actions. Whether it was at places like Te Heru o Tureia Mohaka or Raupunga it was doing its work. Therefore it is good that we are here. Although their mountains and river Mohaka stand proudly it is delightful that we are here for the completion of this bill. 
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I want to mihi to the negotiators to Toro Waaka and co.—and it is no good naming them all because I think a whole lot of them have been negotiating up there—and to the negotiating team. If you start naming people you will leave somebody out so kia ora to the negotiating team. It is important to acknowledge that during the course of the negotiations Ngati Pahauwera made allowances for delays in the negotiations while the Crown worked through policy issues around the co-management of natural resources including rivers. They put a lot of effort into parking up until the Crown had its act together and that needs to be recognised. The negotiations were unique in that at the outset the Crown and Ngati Pahauwera sought to address both the historical Treaty claims and the foreshore and seabed interests of Ngati Pahauwera in a single negotiation. As that legislation was realigned that was pulled out and they continued with the settlement today.  
The basis of the claims is very telling. It is about the failure to ensure that Ngati Pahauwera retained sufficient lands for its future needs through land purchases and confiscations in the Ngati Pahauwera rohe successive pieces of native land legislation and the actions of the Native Land Court. There is some special unique redress in this settlement for Ngati Pahauwera. The effects of war following military conflict with Paimarirein the Napier area in 1866 saw the Crown confiscating all Maori land between the Waikari and Esk Rivers. This included lands in which Ngati Pahauwera held interests even though they had fought alongside the Crown forces. So they did not get thanked very much. I am glad Minister Finlayson that today we are making this special effort to ensure that that is recognised.  
The special unique redress needs to be mentioned and it is about the transfer and gift back of the Te Heru o Tureia conservation area subject to 168 hectares of land around the summit of Te Heru o Tureia and 52 hectares alongside the Mohaka River. Hangi stones cannot be extracted—I read a very interesting point about these hangi stones—from the Mohaka or Te Hoe Rivers without Ngati Pahauwera consent. It is fascinating that we have put a lot of effort into that.  
I hope as you go along in relation to co-management with the conservation order that those issues relevant to metal extraction are truly discussed and that the benefits and the costs of those metals are something that they get a fair whack out of because they have been getting a pittance or nothing at all. We all know the value of shingle and metal at the moment. That we are importing steel parts from overseas to make up the road structures in place of metal is something that fascinates me. I hope that these negotiators and the Crown team are very clear on the value of that metal that may be extracted.  
Ngati Pahauwera have the right to nominate members of any special tribunal to hear and report on applications in relation to the Mohaka River water conservation order or make a new water conservation order in relation to the Mohaka River or its tributaries. That allocation is quite important in the sense of the water issue that is starting to rise up—dare I mention it now—and I hope that we are serious and clear about what their rights are in relation to that water.  
The unique redress also recognises that Ngati Pahauwera and the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council have agreed to enter into an agreement about gravel extraction from the Mohaka River. This I think Minister is something that we have to labour on—excuse the pun—because there are these partnerships already in place in some of the other settlements and I am not too sure whether they are listening to the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations. I hope we are clear and we are sure about making sure that they have an equal say at least with the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council and that they come to agreement about who does the extraction when why what for and of course—I know this is being pragmatic—the return on it because I think that more than the timber and the forestry and everything else gravel is going to be a high-priced commodity.  
In the standard redress the protocols and letters of introduction to Ministers and local authorities—that is lined up over here—again like the Ruapani paepae the Ministers and iwi paepae get together and are supposed to meet yearly. I think it is already starting to fail. I would hope that you would keep an eye on that Minister and make sure that it does happen. It is too easy for people to say: “Yep we have got a charter with you. Yep we have got an agreement and we don’t want to go and see you Maoris down Mohaka or wherever.”  
The $20 million includes the value of the Mohaka Crown forest licensed lands and it needs to be noted that the accumulated rentals will also transfer. Thirteen properties are to be transferred as commercial redress including the Mohaka Forest Rawhiti Station and five surplus Wairoa District Council properties. Sixteen sites are to be vested in Ngati Pahauwera as cultural redress.  
These are two great places: Raupunga and Mohaka. You know they have some special characteristics. They have got a whole lot of kids who can play the saxophone. I listened to them on Saturday—11 of them. I do not think there is anywhere else in the world where they have got 11 kids who can play the saxophone. There are some young fellas who live with their grandfather who still catch kahawai like the grandfather used to catch them. They were kind people and they have got a very interesting whare down in Mohaka have they not? Rino reckons he used to go there a lot of times and have big feeds down there in Mohaka.  
Certainly I want to remember those people who have passed on. Sophie Keefe was an old battler. She used to tell me that the thing with the Pahauwera people is that you have got to be careful because sometimes when they are saying yes they mean no and sometimes when they are saying no they mean yes. It sounds like other people.  
I am glad of the challenge being settled but I would like to say to the Ngati Pahauwera people and to our Minister of Maori Affairs quite simply that the whare still sits there unfinished. It is great that this journey of settlement happens today. I am not saying you should use the settlement money to finish it Minister but I am looking at you—and the other Minister because he is the Minister for Arts Culture and Heritage. Sophie Keefe would be very happy and so would a whole lot of other people if it was finished because it is not finished for whatever reason whatever matter. I want it registered in the House that I said that to you—both of you.  
Tenei ano te mihi i roto i aku. E mihi kau ana i a koutou kia pai to hoki ki te kainga kaua koe e noho roaroa atu i te wahi nei. Rorirori te haere o wetahi mahi atu i nga mahi i konei. Hoki kaha atu i te kainga. No reira tena koutou tena tatau kia kaha. 
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I wish to congratulate you again. I thank you. Travel home safely and do not stay away from here too long. Some who do the work here do crazy things. Be strong as you return home. So congratulations to you collectively and to us as well; be strong. 
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