Jones Shane: Mount Maunganui Borough Reclamation and Empowering Act Repeal Bill — Third Reading 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Jones Shane: Mount Maunganui Borough Reclamation and Empowering Act Repeal Bill — Third Reading 
[Sitting date: 07 November 2012. Volume:685;Page:6381. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
Hon SHANE JONES (Labour) 
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 Kia ora ano tatou. Mo te wahanga tuatahi o tenei korero maku to taua Reo Maori e whakamahi kia puta ai oku whakaaro. Tautoko i te tu o Te Ururoa Flavell nana i pikau mai tenei pire hei amene ma te Whare nei. Mihi atu hoki ki a ia mo tana haukerikeri i te ngako o nga nawe kei waenga tonu i tena hapu e meinga nei ko Nga Potiki. I te Kaharoa ratou e matakitaki ana i ena taonga o ratou e pokepokengia ana na roto i te tukunga o te para weta me te hamuti ki te moana katahi ka whakakinongia haeretia wa ratou mataitai. Na me te haunga katoa. Na reira me tino whai kupu ahau ki te tautoko i te tu a Te Ururoa ahakoa taku tata i a ia i runga i te pouaka whakaata i te po o te Mane me tana tangiweto i te kore nona i pai ki oku korero na reira haunga ano tera. Me te mahara hoki te whakakorikori i a tatou te ao Maori ara noa atu nga moana nga awa me etahi atu o nga whenua i mua i whakamahia wera taonga kia pai ai te tupu te noho o te tangata. Na kua huri te ao i naianei. Kua kite tatou me kaua rawa tatou e whakapirau tonu whakakino tonu i nga taonga i roto i nga kainga e noho nei tatou i o tatou tahataha. Engari me mohio te ao Maori ehara i te mea ka oti te katoa o wa ratou hiahia o ratou whakaaro i te korenga o ratou e pai ki te kite i nga taonga e whakamahia peneitia ana. He wa ano ko nga taonga o te hapori he nui atu he hohonu atu i nga panga o tetahi hapu kotahi anakenake. Engari kaua e waiho i te hapu kia whakatahangia me waiho ratou kia whiwhi kupu ai kia whai reo ai engari te mutunga kaua tatou e akapohehe i a tatou e oti nga whakaaro o tetahi wahi hapu ka mutu ka kore oti nga whakaaro o te whanuitanga o te hapori. 
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Greetings to us once again. In respect to the first part of this address I will express my views in our Maori language. I endorse Te Ururoa Flavell’s position. He is the one who has brought this bill here for this House to affirm. I acknowledge his efforts in digging out the gist of the concerns that remain there still among that sub-tribe of Nga Potiki. They witnessed their resources at Kaharoa being polluted through the release of animal wastes and excrement into the ocean and the continual contamination upon their seafood resources and the total stench as well. Therefore I really have to express my support for the position taken by Te Ururoa despite the fact that I contradicted him on television on Monday night and he was a sooky bubba because my remarks did not appeal to him but put that to the side. We must remember as well to rouse ourselves of the Maori world to the fact that there are several oceans rivers and some lands out there previously where such resources were utilised to sustain the growth and lifestyle of the people. The world has changed now. We have seen that the contamination and pollution of resources in places where we are still living and nearby must be discontinued. However even if we do not like to see resources being treated in this manner Maoridom must understand that not all they want and hope for will be met. There are times when community resources will be much greater and more extensive than the interests of one solitary sub-tribe. But the sub-tribe must never be put to one side. It must have an opportunity to speak and to be represented but at the end of it all we must not delude ourselves into thinking that the views of one solitary sub-tribe should be dealt with at the expense of those of the greater community. 
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I support along with my fellow speakers the Mount Maunganui Borough Reclamation and Empowering Act Repeal Bill. It will be a characteristically pithy contribution where brevity will shine through. A halo has come on the head of my senior colleague Mr Mallard upon hearing those words. 
Somewhat uncharacteristically for me I actually agreed with the previous speaker from the Green Party but that is another matter. We need to remind ourselves that Nga Potiki— 
Hon Trevor Mallard 
: Me got a halo? 
Hon SHANE JONES 
: I understand that my other colleague from Auckland has aspirations of being my senior colleague but that fate awaits him. So he has organised for me to stand “soldier to soldier” with the Green Party about some kaupapa in Auckland but that is for another day. 
The Nga Potiki hapu were not unlike other Tauranga hapu. They have watched their taonga etc. grievously affected. Although this bill does advance the interests of a more rational approach from local government to dealing with these issues in that area the sad reality is that those tangata whenua voices in the past have been blocked. They have been given a voice in this case but it is a salient reminder to those of us who do advocate for our Maori causes that in many cases the overarching interests of “New Zealand Inc.” or the broader community will eclipse our interests as Maori and that we win some we lose some. 
It is good to see that my former colleague Mita Ririnui is back working with his people. He would have shown a tremendous level of interest in this. He is advancing along with the very council we are referring to the interests of the tangata whenua in the broader Tauranga Moana area. It is an area that is growing rapidly. Its port is in a stoush at the moment because another hapu fears that it wants to do dredging that is unnecessarily large and they have yet to see a reasonable level of relationship come between the port and the hapu. So it is a salient reminder also for all the burghers of Mount Maunganui and Tauranga that unless they address this and maintain a high-quality relationship with the tangata whenua small in number they may be but prodigious is the drama they can develop. Kia ora tatou katoa.