Jones ShaneHon SHANE JONES (Minister of Forestry): Ā Reo Māori. Kia ahatia? Kei ngā mātua kei ngā whāea waiho hei wāhi wēnei kōrero wāku me hoki au ki te karakia mai i taku tupuna i a Ngāpuhi Te Karakia Nakahi". Tēnei anō te whakamāturuturu i a Rangitūātea ki a Papatūānuku e takoto nei.Turuturu ā-uta turuturu ā-taiTurua te hau kia tupuTurua te rea kia tupuI aha te matua whāngaiE pihi nei te ao e totoko i te pōKia aweawe kia aweawe oi eE kī e kara e RuaPungarehutia anō tō tapuwae ki te whare eKāhore tahia te pūngāwerewere tahia te puehuKia mahea kia maheaKia puta whakaritorito tō pā harakekeKi tō rahi puta ki te whaiao ki te ao māramaTihewa mauri ora.Ko te tikanga o tēnā kōrero he whakamahea. Pēnei me tā Ngāpuhi e kī nei ka pokea te ingoa ka pokea te kaupapa ka tukuna te karakia kia muru ai i te hara. Koia tā tātou i tēnei rā i roto i tō tātou Reo Māori me ō tātou whakaaro Māori e rapu me pēhea rānei tēnā mahi pokepoke ki te ingoa o te koroua nei ki wāna uri e whakamahea ai i tēnei rā. Itiiti noa iho ngā wā e kite ai tātou mātou ngā kaitōrangapū i roto i tēnei Whare tētahi pire e pēnei ana. Ahau ka mahara ki tētahi kē atu mō te kaumātua i kōhurutia ai ki roto i te rohe o Whakatōhea a Mokomoko. Nā reira koutou kua tatū mai nei e rapu nei me pēhea rānei ēnei mahi o mua e whakatutukitia ai i roto i te māramatanga i roto i te rangimārire me te pono tēnā koutou kua tau mai ki tēnei Whare.Ka mutu me pēnei taku kōrero koutou Ngā Toenga ngā uri o te koroua nei ā Tūhoe whānui tēnā anō koutou katoa. I a au i te tamariki he mea tono au ki te kura i Tīpene. Ko waku hoa katoa ngā mea i oti Te Reo Māori ētahi o mātou ngā Tararā o Te Aupōuri me ngā poi o Tūhoe. 1977 i ahu ake mātou ki Ruatāhuna i runga i tētahi pahi. Kuku ana mātou pēnei me te hipi ki roto i tēnā pahi. Pō rawa ka tae ake ki Ruatāhuna. Kāore au i mōhio he aha te take i noho ai a Te Rangihau i runga i taua marae i taua wā ki te pōhiri i a mātou. Ka whakaritea e te tuakana o taku matua a Kīngi Īhaka tana tuakana ko Te Rawhiti ko au te kaiwhakautu mō te kura o Tīpene.Nā ka puta mai ngā kōrero mai i ō koutou tuakana ō koutou mātua i tērā tau 1977. Ka riro māku e whakautu. Kātahi a Te Rangihau ka kī atu "E kare mā he aha rānei tēnei white man on a brown horse brown man on a white horse rānei?" Kātahi ka karanga atu taku māhita kura "Waihongia taku mokopuna Tararā waiho kia kōrero." Kātahi a Te Rangihau ka kī "E pai ana pēnei he Tararā tā tātou kai i tēnei pō he wāina whero."Nā reira me mihi atu ki a koutou i roto i te wairua ngahau te wairua māmā tā te mea mā roto i te whakamaheatanga e oti ana i roto i a tātou i tēnei rā kaua rawa tātou e waiho kia taimaha rawa kia pōuri kāhore. Wāhia kia puta ai tātou atu i tēnei pito o te huarahi mai i te wā i meatia ai wēnei mahi kino ki te koroua nei ā hāunga anō ki te tangata engari ki ngā tikanga ki ngā ritenga ki te tātai e pupuru tonutia ana i waenga tonu i a koutou. Nā reira tēnā koutou tēnā tātou.[Māori language. What is to be done? To the fathers to the mothers to open my address I should return to the incantation of my ancestor from Ngāpuhi "Te Karakia Nakahi". This is also to sprinkle with water from the Sky Father to the Earth Mother beneath us.It is dripping inland and dripping out to seaLet the wind growLet the shoot growWhat did the nurturing parent doThe world of light grows forth from the nightTo be tall and lofty indeedYou don't say my friend RuaYour footprint in the house has become ashNo sweep away the cobwebs sweep away the dustSo that it is clear so that it is clearSo that your flax clump emerges with young centre shootsTo your multitudes emerging to the daylight to the world of lightIt is the breath of life.The purpose of this speech is to clear the way. As Ngāpuhi says if the name or initiative is affected an incantation is delivered to clear away the wrong. That is what we are doing today in our Māori language and according to our Māori thinking finding how that action which affected the name of this elder and his descendants can be cleared today.There are very few times that we see us the politicians in this House a bill like this. Myself I remember one other about the elder who was murdered in the tribal region of Whakatōhea that is Mokomoko. Therefore to you who have come here who are seeking how these actions of days gone by can find resolution in understanding in peace and the truth greetings to you all who have arrived in this House.And furthermore I must say this to you Ngā Toenga the descendants of this male elder and wider Tūhoe greetings to you all. When I was a child I was sent to school at St Stephen's College. All my friends were those who completed the Māori language some of us were Dalmatians from Te Aupōuri and the boys from Tūhoe.In 1977 we went to Ruatāhuna by bus. We were squashed together like sheep on this bus. Finally at nightfall we arrived at Ruatāhuna. I didn't know why Te Rangihau was at that marae at that time to welcome us. My chief Kīngi Īhaka's elder brother Te Rawhiti arranged for me to be the responding speaker for St Stephen's College.So the speeches arose from your elder brothers your chiefs in that year 1977. It was up to me to reply. Then Te Rangihau said "My friends is this a white man on a brown horse or a brown man on a white horse?" Then my school teacher called out "Leave my Dalmatian grandchild let him speak." Then Te Rangihau said "That's fine we will dine like Dalmatians tonight with red wine."Therefore I must acknowledge you in the spirit of entertainment a light spirit because through the clearing which was completed in the House today we shouldn't let it remain too onerous to be sad—no indeed. Break through so that we emerge at this point on the path from the time when this horrible act was wrought upon this male elder and not only to the man but also to the customs the practices and the lineage which is still retained amongst you. Therefore greetings greetings to us all.]I stand to support this bill. I want to acknowledge the former Māori MP Te Ururoa Flavell who carried this take. It is difficult to imagine when we were young at St Stephen's College when we were younger in our protest days—much thinner—that we would ever have seen parliamentarians gathering in common purpose to pass a bill which recognises that in those earlier times of poor legal decision-making of prejudice of fear that we have now revisited those sins of history. I'm sure for those of us in the House today it reflects how far we've come on the journey in terms of reconciliation.But this is only one step. Whilst we pass this bill—and there's such a treasure trove of information in this document that I'm holding—more importantly it falls upon those of us who are politicians to speak out against those who doubt the wisdom of what we are doing here today. I support what the Hon Nanaia Mahuta has had to say: this bill redresses a wrong that reflects how the prevailing power culture was around the early 1900s. But the challenge is to ensure as the character of New Zealand society changes—the challenge is those of us who descend from the Māori tribes the Pākehā side that we do not lose the foundation influences that define us as classic New Zealanders native New Zealanders people of the Pacific. Do not lose those foundation influences. That's why in particular my party my leader and my colleagues are happy to support this particular bill on this day.On the question of why we do this we do this partly because we are still in the process of redressing the wrongs of history but we want to show our fellow citizens that not everything is about money; not all feelings all emotions all sense of pride can be monetised. And in an almost religious spiritual way the highest court in the land our Parliament is being used to ensure that we clean this blot off the relationship between the Crown and the people of Te Urewera and that is something I beseech all of us as I said in our language to teach our children teach our community teach the next generation—not so much that it can be magnified beyond what it should be but to show what type of nation we are becoming. If you have those aspirations then every day fight for them. The identity of us as Kiwis New Zealanders is stronger by redressing these historical colonial wrongs. I salute the whānau the descendants of Rua Kēnana and his many wives. Kia ora tātou katoa."