Rurawhe AdrianHon MEKA WHAITIRI (Labour—Ikaroa-Rāwhiti): Mr Speaker thank you for the opportunity to do a closing speech on the Hawke's Bay Agriculture and Pastoral Society Empowering Bill. Can I just acknowledge the member the local member for Tukituki for introducing the bill. Alternatively I would have done it but I know she's done a fine job—living not far from the very grounds that we are talking about here and me living not very far from where she's living. It is a local bill. Thank you to all the members who have got up in support of what is just a straightforward bill. I have nothing more to add other than to acknowledge those that have contributed tonight.I want to acknowledge all our graduates around the country. And that's where I've been—my own son has graduated tonight as part of the Māori graduation at Michael Fowler so as you do you've got to be in two places at once. So I just want to send congratulations not just to him but to all the recipients in honouring them tonight.But back to the bill all those that have spoken and my connection to Tomoana Showgrounds. Not only is it the place of the best farmers markets in New Zealand and not only is it the place where we have one of the best A & P shows but it's also one of the places that we first welcomed the Queen the late Queen and her husband Prince Philip back in the early 1970s. And we had over 2500 Kahungunu warriors that participated in that po'hiri at the very ground that we're talking about here. So it is embedded not only in the Hastings psyche but it's built in the Hawke's Bay and wider region this Tomoana Showground and what it means for our community.So it is a straightforward bill. I do appreciate those members that have taken a call on it and I am looking forward to it going to the Governance and Administration Committee. I hear it's a very hard-working select committee very collegial. This bill like we've all said is non-controversial but it does enable the A & P society to not just sell the land and get the proceeds—and that may be something at select committee in my support of this bill that we need to be very clear on the society's objectives so that people have confidence that once the land is sold they know that those funds are going to be used again for the purposes behind the society and the trust.But what's exciting is that the Hastings District Council has put up their hand to not only buy the land but also ensure that its use continues because it's an important part of the Hawke's Bay fabric and society. But what excites me yet again about this bill is the involvement of the local marae Waipatu which is just seriously a stone's throw across from the Tomoana Showgrounds. In fact the name comes from the very descendants—Hēnare Tomoana right up to the Tomoana whānau today who very much live around that marae.So I know that this purchase or this bill will usher not only the sale to the council but it will enable the Hastings District Council to have a very close relationship with the marae and the whakapapa that connects this particular ground to that Waipatu marae Ngāti Hāwea and also the Tomoana whānau. So Mr Speaker with those few words thank you again for this opportunity to speak to this motion. Thank you to all the members who have spoken in support. I look forward to it going and getting properly scrutinised through the select committee and its ushering back so we can allow that trust and the society to carry on and for that land to stay in public hands in Hastings Hawke's Bay. Kia ora koutou.Motion agreed to.Bill read a first time.SPEAKER: The question is That the Hawke's Bay Agriculture and Pastoral Society Empowering Bill be considered by the Governance and Administration Committee.Motion agreed to.Bill referred to the Governance and Administration Committee.