Flavell Te Ururoa: Franklin District Council (Contribution to Funding of Museums) Amendment Bill — Second Reading 
Flavell Te Ururoa: Franklin District Council (Contribution to Funding of Museums) Amendment Bill — Second Reading 
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TE URUROA FLAVELL (Maori Party—Waiariki) 
: 
 Mr Assistant Speaker kia ora tatau. Kei te korero tatau mo tetahi pire e pa ana ki a Waikato no reira na runga i tera whakaaro me huri ki te titiro ki te ahuatanga ki a Te Po Nui a Jim Nicholls e takoto mai ra i roto o Hauraki i waenganui i tona iwi i tenei po. Apopo ka tukuna atu ki te kopu o Papatuanuku. E aroha atu ana ki a ia ko au tera i mahi nei i tana taha. Kei te takoto a ia i runga i tona marae i Mataiwhetu i roto o Thames o Hauraki. Ko ona iwi ko Ngati Maru Ngati Whanaunga Ngati Hako me ki ko Pare Hauraki a Tainui waka era e tangi ana. 
Na ko Jim te Tiamana o te Kaunihera Kaumatua o Hauraki to ratou mangai hoki i runga i te Poari Kaitiaki Maori o Hauraki tera Poari o tona iwi ka mutu ko ia te tiamana tuarua a te Kaunihera Maori o Aotearoa. No reira e tika ana i tenei wa kia timata ake waku korero hei wawahi ake i taku korero a me te poroporoaki i a ia. Kai te penei tonu au na runga i te mea ko tenei pire e hangai tonu ki a Waikato. Na reira whakaaro ake ki a ratou kua ngaro atu ki te tirohanga kanohi. Ko ia tera ana tae atu ki a Te Atawhai Taiaroa tera o nga pou o roto o Aotearoa. No reira a kati waiho ratou ki a ratou kia moe anei tatau e korero nei mo te take nei. 
I a au e whakaaro ake nei kei te rere tonu nga whakaaro mo te hunga utu reti me ki o roto o Ngati Maru Ngati Paoa Ngati Tamatera Ngai Tai me etahi atu wahi o roto o Waikato. Ko tenei pire tetahi o nga take kua roa me ki e wanangatia ana i roto i nga Kawanatanga i nga tau kua hipa. E ai ki taku e mohio nei ko te Franklin District Council (Contribution to Funding of Museums) Amendment Bill i tae mai i timata mai ai i te 13 o Here-turi-koka ara o Akuhata i te tau 2008 a ka mutu ka tukuna ki te komiti whaiti ara ki te select committee i te 4 o Poutu-te-rangi Maehe i te tau 2009. E ai ki taku e mohio nei e rua nga wahanga o te pire nei me ki ko tera e pa ana ki te Auckland War Memorial Museum Act 
i te tau 1996 me te Whare Taonga the Museum of Transport and Technology Act i te tau 
2000 
.  
Ko te tikanga o tenei me ki rawekeweke i tenei pire me ki ko te ata whakatau i te utu mo nga whare taonga me ki kia kautehia na runga i te tokomaha o te tangata e noho mai ra i roto o Franklin 
 
 otira te hunga kai roto i te rohe o Tamaki-makau-rau kaua ko ratou kei roto o Waikato. 
Engari i a au e korero ana ki aku hoa ki a Hone Harawira ki a Pita Sharples i puta te maramatanga ka mutu ko tenei take e hangai tonu ana ki a Waikato me ki kua whakaara ake a Waikato i tenei take etahi o nga iwi nga tangata o Waikato i tenei take o roto i tenei pire. No reira he pai tenei kia tae mai enei momo pire me nga tono a tena a tena a tena a tena. Ka mohio tonu te Paremata ae he take nui tera kai roto i te hapori. No reira anei ano tetahi huarahi hei whakaara ake i te iwi i o ratou whakaaro. Me ki he mama noa iho te tikanga o tenei pire he mea hai whakatau i nga moni ka utua ki te Franklin District Council 
ki te Auckland War Memorial Museum 
me te Museum of Transport and Technology 
. 
 Kai reira tonu tetahi wahanga o te Rohe o Franklin 
.  
He uaua te whakamarama ake tenei take i roto i te reo Maori no reira tera pea me huri ki te reo Pakeha mo te wa poto. 
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Greetings to us Mr Assistant Speaker. We are addressing this bill that relates to Waikato and because of that I turn to look at the situation concerning Te Po Nui Jim Nicholls lying in state tonight in Hauraki among his people. He will be buried in the womb of mother Earth tomorrow. I sympathise as I have worked with him. He lies upon his marae at Mataiwhetu in Thames and Hauraki. His tribes are Ngati Maru Ngati Whanaunga Ngati Hako of the Hauraki Gulf and of the Tainui canoe. They are grieving there.  
Jim was the chairman of the Council of Elders of Hauraki their representative on the Hauraki Maori Trust Board his people’s board and deputy chair of the New Zealand Maori Council. So it is fitting at this time that I preface my address by bidding him farewell. I have done this because this bill relates directly to Waikato. My thoughts are therefore with those who are no longer to be seen including Te Atawhai Taiaroa one of the pillars in New Zealand. So enough leave them to rest there as we debate this matter. 
As I ponder here my thoughts immediately go to the ratepayers of Ngati Maru Ngati Paoa Ngati Tamatera Ngai Tai and of other places in Waikato. This is one of those bills that have been the subject of prolonged discussions within Governments over past years. According to what I know the Franklin District Council (Contribution to Funding of Museums) Amendment Bill arrived on 13 August 2008 and was referred to a select committee on 4 March 2009. I understand there are two parts to this bill. One refers to the Auckland War Memorial Museum Act 1996 and the other to the Museum of Transport and Technology Act 2000. It was to amend this legislation so that specific contributions could be made for the museums based on the population of people residing in Franklin particularly those in the Auckland region but excluding the ones in Waikato.  
But it was while I was discussing this with fellow colleagues Hone Harawira and the Hon Dr Pita Sharples that I realised that this matter did indeed relate to Waikato because some of them raised this issue in this bill. So it is good that these kinds of bills come here with submissions from different individuals. Parliament will then know that yes that is an important issue in the community. So here is another way for people to express their views. This bill is simply the instrument whereby contributions are determined from the Franklin District Council to the Auckland War Memorial Museum and the Museum of Transport and Technology. One part of the Franklin District is still there but it is difficult to explain in Maori so I will turn to English for a short time. 
] 
As others have said—and it is a bit difficult to explain clearly in Maori—the bill seeks to ensure that in calculating the levies payable by the Franklin District Council to the Auckland War Memorial Museum and the Museum of Transport and Technology any part of the district of the Franklyn District Council that is not within the boundaries of the Auckland Regional Council is excluded.  
My colleagues have told me of the frustration that many Franklin citizens shared with them as to why their hard-earned rates should go into Auckland facilities that do not have any direct relationship to their community. We noted the view of the North Shore City Council that this issue should be dealt with as a part of the Government’s comprehensive governance reform process for Auckland. At this stage of the reform process it sees no reason to have interim or separate measures enacted. That might be all very well on paper but the Maori Party has no confidence that the special interests of those within the boundaries of Franklin district will be addressed simply by leaving it to chance.  
Kei te tino tautoko ake i tenei pire na runga i tana aronga ki tenei momo uauatanga i roto i te pire i tenei wa. We are pleased to support this bill as it addresses an apparent anomaly in the current legislation that covers the method of calculating the levies relating to the Auckland War Memorial Museum and the Museum of Transport and Technology. We note too that Federated Farmers view the present arrangements as inequitable on farmers and other rural landowners in the southern part of the Franklin district. 
We believe it is vital that that local government authority has acknowledged mana whenua. Our policy preference is that local government will enhance the development of local and regional business; commercial partnerships between local and regional authorities; industries and business; and local whanau iwi and hapu. In order to do that councils must know who is in their specific territorial region and who sits outside. For all those factors and most particularly because of the wishes of the people the Maori Party is happy to support the bill at its second reading. 
Motion not agreed to.