Reti Shane: Third ReadingsText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeReti Shane: Third Readings[Sitting date: 08 September 2015. Volume:708;Page:6423. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Dr SHANE RETI (National—Whangarei): Tēnā koe Mr Deputy Speaker. E rau rangatira mā ngā mihi ki a koutou kia ora mai tātou.[Thank you Mr Deputy Speaker. And so acknowledgments to you esteemed ones of a hundredfold and to us all.]It is my privilege to stand today and take a short call on this the final reading of the bills arising from Te Hiku Claims Settlement Bill. I would like to start firstly by acknowledging the Minister who leads this bill the Hon Christopher Finlayson for his fine work the Office of Treaty Settlements for its diligence and the iwi of Te Hiku for their patience and perseverance.I believe that our tūpuna walk and cry with us today. They cry in sadness for the moments lost. They cry in happiness for the moment that is now. They cry for the wrenching of their way of life into a paradigm they were ill-prepared for and so they suffered. In my professional domain they cry for the wracking coughs of a thousand smokers and TB victims whose spittle turned bright red as they slowly but surely wasted and to the dust they returned. This is but a part of what our tūpuna cry for today.But although the burden is heaviest for Māori the pain of the past is not for Māori alone to bear. Non-Māori also hurt. I stand here today: one man a product of two peoples. On my Māori side to the east Ngāti Wai and to the south Ngāti Maniapoto. On my European side my English great-grandparents call today from across the Hokianga Harbour to the people of Te Rarawa and others and up into the gallery.From the south side of the Hokianga from Tāheke from the rohe of Ngāti Pākau my great-grandparents Thomas and Rose Brocas cry with us today. They were timber millers working with local people. Arriving from Shropshire England they operated the flaxmill at Waimā beside the Waimā River. They then operated the Brocas timber mill on the Waimā River providing lumber for homes and local infrastructure all through the Hokianga in the far north. In his later years great-grandad Brocas was the postmaster at the Tāheke post office at Roronui formerly known as Waahirakau Raronui and Wharerakau. I am looking here at a 1912 picture of my great-grandad Brocas at the Tāheke post office—five Māori children around him. No shoes—shorts a vest. For them for Rose and Bernard i nāianei e moe ana rāua ki roto i te urupā o Rāwene [they are resting now in the Rāwene cemetery]. I say to you that my English tūpuna who also formed a life with your tūpuna walk and cry with you today—tears of remembrance tears of reconciliation and tears of resilience.This bill includes a summary of the agreed historical account—Crown acknowledgments of breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi. The settlement package includes recognition of Te Hiku iwi as kaitiaki of Te Oneroa-a-Tōhe Te Ara Wairua and Te Rerenga Wairua. It provides for co-governance arrangements for the beach and the development of the management regime for Te Rerenga Wairua five farms and the majority of Aupōuri Forest. There is also recognition here that not all of the wrongs are righted. Not all of the hurt is erased and so the people weep. In conclusion I will say this “the tears of hurt taste just the same as the tears of hope; the difference is whether those tears fall on the cheeks of a face that is at peace”. So it is my hope that this settlement goes some way towards Te Hiku finding some peace with the past and hope for the future. Nō reira e ngā iwi nau mai haere mai āpiti hono tātai hono tēnā koutou tēnā koutou ā kia ora mai tātou katoa.[Therefore to you the tribes welcome come hither the lines are joined; so acknowledgments greetings and congratulations to you and to us all collectively. Thank you.]