Jones Shane: Ngati Toa Rangatira Claims Settlement Bill Haka Ka Mate Attribution Bill — Third ReadingsText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeJones Shane: Ngati Toa Rangatira Claims Settlement Bill Haka Ka Mate Attribution Bill — Third Readings[Sitting date: 16 April 2014. Volume:698;Page:17391. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon SHANE JONES (Labour): Te Reo Māori i te tuatahi. Tēnā tātou katoa e hui tahi nei i roto i te Whare Pāremata i roto tonu i te ana o te raiona i a tātou e whiriwhiri e rapu me pēhea rānei tō tātou kaha e whakatōpūngia ai hei whakatūturu i ngā ōati hei whakatūturu hoki i ngā moemoeā kua herea ki te kapu o te pepa i roto i tēnei pire o tēnei iwi rangatira e kiia nei ko Ngati Toa Rangatira. Nā reira e ōku mātua e ōku whaea nō tēnā pito o Aotearoa tēnā koutou.Tēnā koutou i runga i tō tātou waka i aTainui i roto i ngā kupu whakarite mō tērā hau tupua o Te Āo Māori a Te Rauparaha me te whare karakia i tū ai i muri mai i tana tukunga e te Kāwanatanga kia hoki mai ki tana kāinga tupu me te rangatiratanga o ngā whakaahua te rangatiratanga o ngā taonga ngā mana tunga i kohia ki roto i tēnā whare karakia i oti i tēnā tupuna rangatira a Te Rauparaha. He tangata i haere ngātahi mē tērā matua ōku a Nene i roto i o rātou haereretanga i wērā tau noa atu otirā i tēnei rā tēnei ahau te mihi atu ki a koutou. Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa.[Māori language first. Salutations to us all gathered together here in Parliament in the very sanctity of the lion’s den to discuss and find a way to utilise our combined energy to ensure the promises and dreams that have been committed in writing in this bill of this noble tribe known as Ngati Toa. Therefore to my fathers and aunts from that end of the country greetings to you collectively.Salutations to you on our Tainui canoe and in regards to the words attributed to that illustrious person of Māoridom Te Rauparaha and furthermore to the church that was erected following his release by the Government to return to his homeland as well as the ownership of photos treasures and precious items that were gathered together and placed in that church that was completed by that illustrious chief Te Rauparaha. He was someone who accompanied that elder of mine Nene in their travels back in those times a long time ago. And today I indeed salute you collectively. Greetings acknowledgments and congratulations to you and to us all.]It is often said that political parties need to brand themselves to ensure that the voters can distinguish who stands for what but I want Ngati Toa in this House to know today that the Māori members of Labour and indeed Labour stand solidly with the Crown to ensure that the Ngati Toa Rangatira Claims Settlement Bill achieves Royal assent without any delay. It is a piece of legislation that has come to the House prior to Easter a time when a dwindling number of us contemplate and think about colonial origins the role of the Church and in my case the role of the missionaries in the north. When you think about the history of Ngati Toa and in particular Te Rauparaha it is intertwined with that colonial part of New Zealand’s sad history and that person whom our mātua called “Wide-Awake” otherwise known as Wakefield and Octavius Hadfield who insome way gifted Hone Harawira his name in a transliteration. After all before he went down south the man was at Waimate North. If anyone wants to know how indigenous the name Harawira is just look at Octavius Hadfield that well-known missionary.But I digress. This should be a day of some celebration. I want to acknowledge a number of the identities who have come here to support Ngati Toa today. We will talk of the other iwi as well but we are starting with Ngati Toa this morning.One of Māoridom’s foremost orators Mr Nicholson whose son I had the good fortune to go to university with—who has sadly passed away—was a graduate of Te Aute College. I was a graduate of St Steven’s School. Mr Nicholson’s son Huata and I were at Victoria University. He was a fine rugby league player and demonstrated that Te Aute boys drank more beer than St Steven’s boys. But we should remember with some joy those who have passed on. Obviously I should acknowledge Mr Rei who is the current leader of Ngati Toa and also the chair of Te Ohu Kaimoana. I think of Mr Metekīngi who when we were young university students was an identity.I want to recite the names of a famous orator from this tribe whom I met when I was a lad at Tūrangawaewae. I went with my Ngāpuhi Aupōuri elders to Tūrangawaewae in the early 1970s. An old man gave a speech. Although we were very good at Māori it was well beyond our capacity to understand as young men going along with our mātua from the Anglican Church. His name was Rēnē. If I am not mistaken it was Uenuku Rēnē but they just called him Rēnē. I recall my grandmother telling me that that man came from the Cook Strait. Being from the far north it was all a bit sort of blurry just as the southerners call everyone from north of Auckland Ngāpuhi. I recall her saying that he had just demonstrated in his speech that to be a great navigator for Māoridom you have to see in the night; you have to be able to read the signs and translate in a form that modern people can understand. He aha ngā tohu o te pō mai i ngā whetū me ngā manu tūtuki noa ki te moana?[What are the night signs from the stars birds and down to the sea?]As a youngster of 11 or 12 I have never forgotten the trip I took with my grandmother who was born in 1892.So let us come back to Ka Mate. I do not think there is a more valuable contribution that the Pākehā hoi polloi borrow from us on a regular basis when they go to Amsterdam when they go to London or when they go to wherever. Indeed on my Tararā side I can assure Ngati Toa that my own son has done Ka Mate in Croatia on many occasions. He went there to play rugby. Unfortunately I learnt that that was not all he was doing. He did ring and say: “Hey Papa I didn’t know the Swedish played rugby.” Kātahi au ka mea atu ki a ia me hoki mai koe ki te kāinga. He Māori koe ēhara koe i te Tararā.[Then I said to him that you should return home. You are a Māori not a Croatian.]This is now a key quality of our modern identity as New Zealanders. This bill the Haka Ka Mate Attribution Bill ensures that its indigeneity is never stripped away. Who knows what the future holds for such contributions? But let it be known that it was Te Rauparaha and his flight in the various battles of the 1820s and the assistance that he took from Te Whareangi who decided that he would assist him as he was fleeing probably some of his own relatives. That is where that haka originated from. The fact that this legislation has been used to provide a level of stewardship over the haka is I think reflective of how far we have come in terms of biculturalism because this would never have happened in the time that I worked for Sir Geoffrey Palmer. I dare say it would have been very difficult to have got through in the time that Don Brash held sway in terms of the bicultural narrative. But those identities have moved out of politics and today the current identities are here to salute Ngati Toa and to remind ourselves that these settlements will not avenge everything that happened in the past. They are thecontribution of this group of parliamentarians and the Crown officials and society being prepared to back the politicians to take these steps. That is what they are. Now it falls to the iwi to be the kaitiaki.I want to ensure this. Mena e rongo ana koe e iwi kei te pānui ahau i te katoa o tō haka a Ka mate ka mate.[If you the people can hear I am going to recite all of your haka Ka Mate to you.]I want to read into the record the entirety of Ka Mate. I will not go over my time. Ordinary Kiwis know five or six lines. It is probably the only opportunity that we will have to put this on the record. You never know some of them might join me. It defies English translation but there are a couple of rude words that in good time I will explain to you.It starts:Kikiki kakaka kauana!Kei waniwania taku taraKei tarawāhia kei te rua i te kerokero!He pounga rāhui te uirā ka rarapa;Ketekete kau ana tō peru koi ririMāu au e koro e—Hī! Hā!Ka wehi au a ka matakanaKo wai te tangata kia rere ure?Tirohanga ngā rua rerareraNgā rua kurī kakanui i raro! Aha ha!Ka mate! Kamate!Ka ora! Ka ora!Ka mate! Ka mate!Ka ora! Ka ora!Tēnei te tangataPuhūruhūru nāna nei i tiki maiWhakawhiti te rā!Ūpāne ka UpāneŪpane ka ŪpāneWhiti te rā!Let it lie on our record the day we came to salute Ngati Toa and agree to the legislation protecting that haka for them in New Zealand. It now lies as a permanent record of this Parliament. Kia ora tātou katoa.