Jones Shane: New Zealand Mission Trust Board (Otamataha) Empowering Bill — First ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeJones Shane: New Zealand Mission Trust Board (Otamataha) Empowering Bill — First Reading[Sitting date: 25 September 2013. Volume:693;Page:13723. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon SHANE JONES (Labour): Ā kia oraanōtātou. Mekōreroi tetuatahiitōtātou Reo Māorimōtēneipire epāana ki tehāhiiwhakatipungiaaiahau me te whenua o ōtātouhuanga Māorii roto o Tauranga Moana. Memaharatātou ā teTīhema tewā o teKirihimete kapau te 200taumō teekenga mai o tewhakapono ki Aotearoa. Ko tekaimau mai koHāmueraMātenga. Ko tewāhiitau maiai ia koŌihi. Ko tekaumātua nana iaiwhakatau koRuatara.Nākīhairawarātoui noho kitēnāpito kiRangihouamō tehiaroakātahirātou kawhakatatū meneke kiwāhikē.Nōmurinoanei ka tae maingāmihinareiraroi tewhakahaere ā TeWīremu.Nā kotetahi ongārōpūpēneii teHāhiMihingareiwhaipakiakaai ki roto o Tauranga Moana heitorotoro heiwhakawhānui atui tewhakapono.Arānoa atuwetahikōreroiputai te koretake o tehāhiēngarikauatātou epōhēhē hekino te katoa ongā mahiiotii terōpūneimō te iwi Māori.Nāōkumātua o roto oNgāpuhi a HongiHikamāiwhakatūpatoi Te Ao Māori. Ko tekararehe heiwhakamatakui ō tamarikii ō mokopuna ko tekoti wheroēhara kongāmihinare.Nā kiawhārikitia eahaui tetuatahi e TeMāngai o te Whare hekōreropērā.[Greetings to us once again. But first I must address in our Māori language this bill which relates to the Church I was brought up in and relates to the land that belongs to our fellow Māori relations in Tauranga. We must remember that in the coming December at Christmas time 200 years will have passed since the arrival of the faith in New Zealand. The bearer was Samuel Marsden.Ōihi was where he landed andRuatara the elder was the one who welcomed him. They had not stayed at that end atRangihoua for any length of time when they decided to move elsewhere. It was later on that the missionaries arrived under the tutelage of Williams. One of these missionary groups like the Church of England established itself in Tauranga reconnoitred the area and expanded the faith.Much has been expressed about how useless the Church has been but we must never be deluded by the fact that what this group did for the Māori people was not all bad. My elders from withinNgāpuhi—HongiHika and others—cautionedMāoridom: the beast that our children and grandchildren will fear will indeed be the redcoats and not the missionaries. And thus I need to lay out a statement like that first.]ThishapūNgāiTamarāwaho and I have an association that goes back to an incident involving the library in Tauranga Moana. A chap by the name of Hone Ngata since disappeared—passed away should I say—who was married to a leading woman of this tribeNgāiTamarāwaho akaumātua by the name ofKōpū and a host of others occupied that particular library. The occupation turned very sour when the police just to show that they did not discover their foul ways in theTūhoe raid sent the police dogs into the Tauranga library in order to dislodge the occupiers. As a consequence a fire broke out. Considerable damage was inflicted upon the books the library and the members of thathapū who were seeking to recover their rights that they had lost I would say broadly through the process of colonisation but more to the point through the nexus of Crown action and the Church of England.I cannot help but think about those people—indeed one of them aPākehā chap who went to my old school St Stephen’s School—who made unsuccessful attempts in what is a pretty conservative area Tauranga Moana to push their agenda. That was in the late 1980s. When we pass a bill like this the New Zealand Mission Trust Board (Otamataha) Empowering Bill it is good that we recite a little of the unknown history so that the efforts and the names of the members of thathapū—as I said most of whom have moved on—are recorded because this is the people’s House and we are talking about a group of people here who have received back from the Anglican Church a small portion of their former estate. Naturally I acknowledge Te Ururoa Flavell and follow onfrom what others have said. I am looking forward to hearing what my colleagues on the Māori Affairs Committee say about this piece of legislation.We tend to regard the centres ofMāoridom in the Bay of Plenty as beingTūhoe Te Arawa andWhakatāne but there is a proud and rich history that has been eclipsed in Tauranga Moana belonging to the tangata whenua and this makes a small step for—and I suppose that when you mention the nameNgāiTamarāwaho to the averagePākehā they cannot pronounce it for a start. It does sound a bit rude if you get the consonants around the wrong way but that is another matter. I would say that they are a truculent group of Māori. Indeed a number of conservative Māori did not like them but we should be here today to support this bill and we do.