Davis KelvinKELVIN DAVIS (Labour—Te Tai Tokerau): Tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare e tautokongia ana ahau i ngā mihi mihi atu ki a koe e te tuakana e Tutehounuku mō ngā kupu whakarite nau nei i whakapūakitia mai i te ata nei; nā reira tēnā rā koe.Kei te tautoko hoki ahau i wērā o ngā mihimihi ki ō tātou tini mate o tātou mate huhua me ngā kōrero nā Te Minita i naia tata nei mō tērā o ngā tuākana a Te Awanuiārangi Black. E tika ana ngā hōnoretanga kua hipokina ki runga i a ia mō āna mahi i a ia e hīkoi ana ki runga i te mata o te whenua. Tōna mate he karanga tēnā ki a tātou ngā tāne Māori kia rapu i te hauora kia rapu i te āwhina kia haere ki ngā tākuta kia āta tiaki i ā tātou anō. Nā reira e te tuākana e Te Awanuiārangi: e moe e moe e moe atu rā. He tini ngā mate kei tērā kei tēnā o ngā marae puta noa i te motu.E hiahia ana ahau ki te mihi ki tōku tuakana hoki a Checker Davis kua hinga atu i nanahi atu rā. Ā e takoto ana ki runga i tōku marae kei roto o Ngāti Manu a Te Kāretu. Me tērā hoki ki tetahi tauira nāku ako i whakaako i ahau e tumuaki ana i Te Kura o Kaitāia ko Chenei Ohlson kua mate i taua ngārara te mate pukupuku. E takoto ana kei roto i te kāinga o tōna whānau i te rangi nei. Nā reira e ngā mate haere; nā ko rātou ki a rātou ko tātou ki a tātou huri noa i Te Whare.[Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker I am endorsing the acknowledgments and so I acknowledge you elder member Tutehounuku for your words of prayer that you put together and expressed this morning; my appreciation and thank you very much.I also endorse those tributes accorded to the myriad and vast number of our dead and to the Minister's comments just now in regard to that one of the elder kin Te Awanuiārangi Black. The honourable words that were cast over him for his accomplishments while he walked upon the face of the land are apt. His death is a call to us Māori men to seek well-being to seek help to visit doctors and to really look after ourselves as well. Therefore to you elder sibling Te Awanuiārangi: sleep rest and slumber on. There are numerous deaths that occur at that marae over yonder and those marae throughout the country.I want to also pay a tribute to my elder sibling Checker Davis who collapsed the day before yesterday. He is lying in state on my marae Te Kāretu within the region of Ngāti Manu. I pay a tribute also to that one Chenei Ohlson a student I taught while serving as principal of Kaitāia School and who died as a consequence of that reptile cancer. She is lying in state at the home of her family today. And so to you the deaths depart; they the dead to themselves and we to ourselves throughout the House.]We tend to associate Ngāti Pūkenga with the area of Tauranga Moana and that is because that is where they originate from. However there is an outpost—a diplomatic mission station I guess you could say—deep in the heart of the Te Tai Tokerau electorate. I just want to talk about the reasons why there is an embassy of Ngāti Pūkenga up north. It is actually a—well it is a tragic story but it is a rich part of our history. You may ask why Ngāti Pūkenga would be surrounded—you know want to plonk themselves—Hon Nanaia Mahuta: Yes why?KELVIN DAVIS: —right around Ngāpuhi. The sister Nanaia Mahuta says: Yes why?". Well it does go back to that well-known Ngāpuhi whakatauki that loosely translated means there are two types of Māori: those who are Ngāpuhi and those who wish to be Ngāpuhi. But—The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): Order! KELVIN DAVIS: Ha ha! But the story is that back in the 1800s when Russell was the place where guns ammunition and other tools of the European could be found up north a group from Ngāti Pūkenga was regularly trading between Tauranga and Russell. They were going up on this particular occasion to look for firearms to purchase firearms or to trade for firearms and as they were coming past the Whangarei Harbour one of the warriors on board wanted to get off there so he could go and visit his sister whose name was Te Rore. Te Rore was the wife of a chief in the Whangarei area by the name of Wharepoaka. So this warrior was let off while the rest of the contingent sailed on up to Russell up to the Bay of Islands. When he got ashore he was looking for his sister's village and as he was looking for it he did not realise he was being followed by a person—basically someone was stalking him I guess you could say. As this warrior bent down to drink from a stream the guy came up smacked him on the head and killed him. He then—to cut a long story short—threw him in a hāngi and had him for dinner. Word got back to the chief of the flotilla—a chief by the name of Moeroa Paretaura—and when word got to Moeroa he spun around and came back to seek utu or revenge. Word got out to the chiefs in the Whangarei area with one of them being a famous chief from Te Parawhau by the name of Te Tirarau. Te Tirarau was actually an ally of a tupuna of Peeni Henare and mine Pōmare as well as of Peeni's other tupuna Kāwiti. These days we say that those three had an alliance the TPK alliance which is not to be confused with the TPK—Te Puni Kōkiri—of these days. So anyway Te Tirarau got to Pārua Bay which is not far from the area where this person was killed. Moeroa came with his contingent and basically they came ashore and confronted each other. What prevented all-out war was really the fact that Te Tirarau conceded that the killing of that warrior was out and out murder and that Moeroa's search for utu was a just cause. To stop the war from happening they took Moeroa's crew to the parcel of land where that young man was killed and they said: "This land is yours. We'll even extend it to such a size that you'll be able to settle there." Hence the name of that particular block of land is Pakikaikutu. It is barely a stone's throw or maybe a 1-wood away from Whangarei Airport across Whangarei Harbour. That piece of land is Ngāti Pūkenga's despite it being right in the heart of Tai Tokerau and surrounded by Ngāpuhi and Ngāti Wai. It is important that we remember and recall this history because it is easy for that to be forgotten and it is a beautiful part of our collective history. Turning to the bill I just want to touch on what the Minister did say about clause 103 and that is to do with the right of first refusal. It is something that was really only picked up in this bill by the submitter. The concern was that Māori would not actually have the right of first refusal and that the right of first refusal might go to a charity. For the reasons that the Minister has explained we decided not to make any amendment to that clause just to be fair to any other iwi that had settled and because it is a standard clause in Treaty settlements. But it was interesting. We did take it very seriously. We got quite an amount of advice just to talk about that one clause around the right of first refusal. I just want to touch now on the acknowledgments from the Crown. What happened to Ngāti Pūkenga is reflected across the country but that does not diminish from the fact that they have been unfairly treated by the Crown over the decades and the years. One of the main points I want to make is that Ngāti Pūkenga did not take part in the war in Tauranga. They were committed to upholding Te Tiriti o Waitangi. They believed in Te Tiriti o Waitangi and they believed that Te Tiriti would treat them well. Unfortunately that did not happen. The Crown and only the Crown was responsible for the outbreak of war in Tauranga in 1864 and its actions were a breach of Te Tiriti. Clause 8(4) says: "The Crown acknowledges"—and rightly so—"that despite leading Te Tāwera and Ngāti Pūkenga to believe that their interests would be scrupulously respected [that did not happen] … and the Tauranga District Land Acts of 1867 and 1868 unjustly extinguished the customary title of Te Tāwera and Ngāti Pūkenga in the land within the confiscation district". I have only a few seconds remaining but it is really important that we acknowledge that these claims are not a Treaty gravy train but that there were people whose lives were severely and irrevocably impacted on by the actions of the Crown which has led to present-day loss of land loss of mana and loss of many many things. That is the reason why we support this bill going through all its stages and I commend it to the House. Kia ora."