Marcroft JennyJENNY MARCROFT (NZ First): E ngā mana e ngā reo e ngā karangaranga maha; tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa. E mihi ana ahau ki ngā uri whakaheke o ngā tīpuna o Heretaunga o Tamatea. He mihi aroha he mihi maioha ki a koutou. Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa.[To the various representative entities to the many spokespersons and delegates greetings to you all indeed greetings to all assembled here.I acknowledge the descendants of Heretaunga of Tamatea. I bid you a warm and sincere welcome. Greetings to you all greetings to all gathered here.]Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker and a welcome to those from Heretaunga Tamatea. I'd like to acknowledge He Toa Takitini the negotiating body for this settlement. It was a fantastic experience for me to head with the Māori Affairs Committee to Hawke's Bay to be part of the submissions process. It was the first time I'd been inside that process from that side—from the Government side. Previously in the North I had been into hearings through the Waitangi Tribunal with my Ngāpuhi iwi. So for me it was a great privilege to sit and hear your stories. So thank you very much.I'd like to acknowledge the Minister Andrew Little for his contribution in the House today and the work that he has undertaken with this and also too the previous Minister Christopher Finlayson and the work that he did to get to this stage. In the House today we've heard from Dr Shane Reti. He talked quite a lot about the Glasgow leases. I'm sure we will all mention those today because as Minister Finlayson said in his first speech they were ghastly—the ghastly Glasgow leases. I will mention them a little bit more. To the chair of the Māori Affairs Committee Rino Tirikatene thank you for your contribution as well. It was an experience that you talked about and for me to share in that too and thank you to the whānau who had such a lovely manaakitanga that we all shared in on the day.One of the things that Rino talked about was locking in these perpetual mamae from these Glasgow leases and I think we should really acknowledge that in the House today. During the 20th century Heretaunga Tamatea hapū and whānau suffered social economic and cultural marginalisation and today more than half of the people live outside the traditional rohe. Heretaunga Tamatea's wide-ranging historical claims include the alienation of land through the failure to implement the terms of pre-Treaty land transactions; the Land Claims Commission; the deep dispossession of land through deliberately misleading business practices; and the impact of the loss of communal ancestral lands on traditional tribal structure. Heretaunga Tamatea is a large natural grouping of Hawke's Bay hapū with a population of approximately 15900.I'd like to start by looking really at the deed of settlement in relation to Te Aute College. I will note that my brother-in-law played rugby for Gisborne Boys' and he told many stories of the rivalry that they had with the boys at Te Aute and the great games of rugby—but not just the rugby; it was the admiration that they had for the students and the learning that they undertook at Te Aute. Now in addition to the $100 million package the $5 million that will be set aside to support the long-term sustainability of Te Aute College is a very worthy point to make inside the settlement. The college has made a huge contribution to the education of some outstanding New Zealanders and now with the settlement it will continue to guide and realise the full potential of future generations of successful Māori successful New Zealanders. The lands of the college as we've heard about have been trapped by what has been termed as those ghastly Glasgow leases": 7000 acres handed over for education but the people remained penniless. It's a deal that was detrimental to the donors of the gift detrimental to the school.Looking at the time line in 1853 the Heretaunga Tamatea hapū Ngāti Te Whatuiāpiti gifted those 7000 acres. In 1906 a royal commission was appointed to look at the Te Aute and Wanganui School Trusts. A royal commission recommended the trusts subdivide the gifted land and by 1916 those 7000 acres were divided into 23 blocks. The 23 blocks were placed into Glasgow or perpetual leases and we've all heard about those peppercorn leases and how detrimental they were until this day. Now the intention though of those leases was to provide an income and now through this deed of settlement there will be security for the school to move forward. I'd just like to note how my iwi Ngāpuhi are still yet to settle and noting on this that a school Hato Pētera as we've all heard is down to its final student. So it is a shame that we haven't been able to move forward with our settlement and ensure that one of our schools is kept safe into the future.I'd also like to talk about the experience of going into Hawke's Bay—into the region—and note the contamination back in August 2016 of the drinking water that caused an estimated 5500 of Havelock North's 14000 residents to become sick with campylobacteriosis. Forty-five were subsequently hospitalised and it is possible that the outbreak contributed to three deaths. The drinking water that was sourced from Te Mata aquifer under the Heretaunga Plains was thought to be a safe confined source of water. We had a couple of submissions from Waipatu Marae and they talked about the water and what it really meant for them through this campylobacteriosis incident. They basically had to say that the tino rangatiratanga lies in the hapū hands and that they had been advocating for clean water for quite some time—that if they had been listened to earlier this whole water emergency could have been avoided and it was a slight on their kaitiakitanga over these aquifers. We heard from Te Taiwhenua o Heretaunga Trust. They talked a lot about the freshwater management and they still felt that they were in a position of subservience and how their aspirations of mana whenua were still to be recognised. They also talked about how when they had visitors come to their regions and their water was unclean there was that whole perception; that their visitors would recoil in horror if they were offered a drink of water. That mamae continues from that incident.It was a pleasure to hear from Waimarama Māori marae. This is a coastal settlement located in very close proximity to Waipuka land blocks. Waimarama Māori marae gazetted under the Māori Reservations Act had jurisdiction of some land from Cape Kidnappers to Porangahau. A lot of their land was placed for soldier resettlement—this was at the end of World War I. The Government initiated the gifting of land for returned servicemen. This excluded though Māori servicemen from any of the proceedings. So I'd like to acknowledge Waimārama Marae. Also Kohupatiki Marae—we heard at the hearings from the Hon Meka Whaitiri. This was her marae so I'd like to make note of her and the discussions she had. She told us about how her marae is on the banks of the Clive River and how they can no longer whitebait there.Finally I'd just like to mention in closing Tamatea. My nephew is named Tamatea so it's a name I hear every day. He lives in my home and he's a delightful young man. His father—my brother-in-law Michael—did a lot of shearing in the area. He sheared with his dad Boy Winiana. Michael tells stories of how he would jump the train and take a ride to Otane where his grandmother Nanny Ma—also known as Nanny Gorgeous—lived and the time he spent in the area shearing and time with his nanny who is now buried in the urupa near Pukehou Marae.So in conclusion "Heretaunga" the whakataukī that I would like to read now: "Heretaunga haukū nui Heretaunga ararau Heretaunga hāro o te kāhu Heretaunga takoto noa." ["Heretaunga a life-giving dew; Heretaunga of Arcadian pathways; Heretaunga beauty of which can only be seen by the hawk; Heretaunga that has been left to us the humble servants."]New Zealand First supports this bill. Nō reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa."