Davis KelvinKELVIN DAVIS (Deputy Leader—Labour): Tuatahi māku hei whakapuaretia āku nei kōrero i te ata nei e mihi kau ana ki tō tātau kaikarakia nāna nei i tīmata te wahanga nei i runga i te huarahi tika. Nā reira tēnā rā koe e te tuakana e Nuk. Ā Ngāti Pūkenga tēnā rā koutou nau mai haere mai ki roto o tēnei Whare haere mai ki raro i te tuanui o tō tātau Whare. I tēnei wā e whakatau ana i ō koutou kerēme. Kua rongohia ki roto i Te Whare ngā ingoa o wētahi kua wehe atu ki Te Pō. Nā reira ko Awanuiārangi tētahi ko Monte Ōhia tētahi me te tini te mano hoki nā reira kei te tangi kei te tangi kei te tangi tonu tātau katoa i a rātau. Engari rātau ki a rātau ko tātau ki a tātau anō ngā kanohi ora tēnā koutou. Ā Ngāti Pūkenga tēnei ahau he tamaiti nō Te Tai Tokerau e mihi kau ana ki a koutou. E rua ngā take e hiahia ana te whakakōrerohia i te ata nei. Ko tērā o ngā kāinga kei roto i a mātau o Te Tai Tokerau a Pakikaikutu. I te pānuitanga tuarua o tēnei pire nāku i whakamāramatia ngā āhuatanga o taua kāinga. He aha te take he kāinga o Ngāti Pūkenga kei roto i a mātau o Te Tai Tokerau? I whakamāramatia e au i te kōrero e pā ana ki tērā o koutou i haere i peka atu ki te tūtaki i tana tuahine ko Te Rore te wahine o Wharepoaka. I tana taenga ki uta kua haere ia te tūtaki i tana tuahine engari tētahi nanakia nō roto o Ngāti Wai horekau nō Ngāpuhi ā i patungia i kōhurungia taua tangata. I runga i tēnā nā taua tupuna a Te Tirarau i runga i te mōhioranga kua hē taua mate nāna i hoatu taua wahanga taua kāinga a Pakikaikutu ki a Ngāti Pūkenga kia taea ai e Ngāti Pūkenga te noho ki waenganui i a mātau o Te Tai Tokerau. Ko taua kōrero he kōrero hei honohono i a koutou ki a mātau engari tērā atu tetahi kōrero e pā ana ki tērā pakanga i roto i a mātau o Ruapekapeka. I te wā i roto a Kāwiti i roto a Hone Heke i te mura o te ahi kua huri a Hone Heke me te pātai: kei hea a Kaharau? Arā kei hea ōna whanaunga nō te taitamatāne? He aha te take a Hokianga kīhai i haere mai ki te āwhina i a mātau o roto o Taumārere? Kua puta te tono mō ētahi kia haere mai hei āwhina hei whawhai pokowhiwhi ki te pokowhiwhi ki a Ngāti Hine. Wēnei i tae ake ko Ngāti Manu Te Kapotai Patukeha wētahi nō Mangakāhia. Kua tae ake hoki a Ngāti Pūkenga. Nā reira tēnei ahau he uri o aua rangatira o Ngāpuhi e mihi kau ana ki ō koutou tūpuna i haere mai i taua wā ki te whawhai tahi pokowhiwhi ki te pokowhiwhi nā reira i runga i tēnā tēnei ahau e tuku atu i tēnei tono ki a koutou kia haere mai ki roto i a Ruapekapeka ā 28 Oketopa kia whakamaumaharatia e tātau ō tātāu tūpuna nā rātau i whakaheke ō rātau toto i runga o te maunga o Haruru Tapuwae. Nā reira Ngāti Pūkenga tēnei mātau e whakawhetai ana ki a koutou ki ō koutou tūpuna mō aua āwhina nā rātau ki a mātau nā i runga i tēnā ka huri ake ahau ki te pire.[The first thing for me in terms of opening my comments this morning is to immediately acknowledge our prayer-giver who began this part on the right track. Therefore thank you very much elder colleague Nuk. And now to you Ngāti Pūkenga acknowledgments to you collectively welcome come hither into this House come here under the roof of our House. At this moment I formally welcome your claims. Some names of individuals who have departed to the void have been heard in the House. Therefore Awanuiārangi was one Monte Ōhia another and countless thousands more also and so all of us continue to mourn grieve and lament them. But allow them the dead to remain there among themselves while we the living remain here amongst ourselves acknowledgments to you. And so to you Ngāti Pūkenga here I am this child from North Auckland paying you collectively a tribute indeed. There are two matters that I want to address this morning. One is about those settlements amongst us in North Auckland at Pakikaikutu. In the second reading of this bill I was the one who explained the circumstances about that settlement. What is the reason for a Ngāti Pūkenga settlement being located amongst us in Northland? I explained the story about one of yours who branched off to visit his sister Te Rore the wife of Wharepoaka. When he got inland he went to meet his sister but a scoundrel from within Ngāti Wai not from within Ngāpuhi killed and murdered that man. Consequently when that ancestor Te Tirarau found out that killing was wrongful he handed over that part that settlement Pakikaikutu to Ngāti Pūkenga so that they Ngāti Pūkenga could stay amongst us of North Auckland. That story is one that links you to us but there is another one which relates to that battle amongst us of Ruapekapeka. At the time when Kāwiti and Hone Heke were at the heat of battle Hone Heke turned and asked: where is Kaharau? In other words where are the relatives of the younger brother? What is Hokianga's reason for not coming to help us of Taumārere? The request had gone out for others to come and assist to help fight Ngāti Hine shoulder to shoulder. These were the ones who turned up: Ngāti Manu Te Kapotai Patukeha and some from Mangakāhia. Ngāti Pūkenga also arrived. So here I am a relative of those esteemed ones of Ngāpuhi acknowledging your ancestors who came at that time to fight as one shoulder to shoulder and as a consequence of that I extend this invitation to you collectively to come to Ruapekapeka on 28 October so that we can celebrate and remember our ancestors who shed their blood on the mountain of Haruru Tapuwae. And so our huge appreciation to you Ngāti Pūkenga and your ancestors for that assistance of theirs to us and as a result of that I now turn to the bill.]Ngāti Pūkenga it must be acknowledged that as an iwi you did not participate in the war in Tauranga because your tūpuna were committed to upholding the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and it was the Crown that was ultimately responsible for the outbreak of war in Tauranga in 1864. The actions of the Crown were a breach of Te Tiriti. As a result since that time you have all been disadvantaged by the actions of the Crown. The confiscation and raupatu at Tauranga Moana and the Tauranga District Lands Acts of 1867 and 1868 unjustifiably extinguished the customary title of Te Tāwera Ngāti Pūkenga and the land within that confiscation district. It breached Te Tiriti o Waitangi and its principles. The Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations has set out a lot of the history and we always turn to talk about the compensation. We keep saying that compensation is just a fraction of the value of the worth of what happened. We all acknowledge it is totally unfair but we also acknowledge that we must move on from here. We always use Tainui and Ngāi Tahu as examples of what iwi can do when they settle and have some pūtea just to start and grow the wealth and well-being of their people—of their iwi and their hapū. On that note we wish the same for Ngāti Pūkenga and that from here on in it is a new leaf a new start and a new beginning—always remembering what happened and never forgetting it lest we repeat those sorts of actions. Ngāti Pūkenga this is a great day for you. It is a great day for Māoridom because your success is also our success. Our whakapapa is interconnected—Mr Speaker if you did not quite pick up on what I was saying in Māori. At the Battle of Ruapekapeka when Hone Heke was under siege he asked Where is Kaharau?" meaning: "Where are the people of Hokianga? They should be coming to help their relations over on the other side of the island in the Bay of Islands." Some tribes did turn up—Ngāti Manu Te Kapotai Te Patukeha a few individuals from Mangakāhia Valley—but also Ngāti Pūkenga arrived to help Hone Heke and Kāwiti at the great Battle of Ruapekapeka which ended the Land Wars in the Tai Tokerau area. It is just fitting that they are here today and that I can extend the invitation—because on 28 October we are beginning the commemoration of the Māori Land Wars and the first commemoration is at Ruapekapeka and it is an opportunity to extend the invitation to them. Their ancestors and our ancestors fought shoulder to shoulder and shed blood at Ruapekapeka. For that Ngāti Hine and Ngāpuhi are eternally grateful. Without a doubt they would be guests of honour up at Ruapekapeka on that day. I will not drag things out other than to say that it is a pleasure and an honour to be able to speak on this bill and to acknowledge you all. Thank you very much for coming down to Wellington from Tauranga and Pakikaikutu that little bastion of Ngāti Pūkenga amongst us up in the Tai Tokerau. Nā reira tātau mā huri rauna tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātau katoa.[And so greetings and acknowledgments to you collectively and to us all throughout.]"