Harawira Hone: Adjournment — Sittings of the House 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Harawira Hone: Adjournment — Sittings of the House 
[Sitting date: 21 December 2011. Volume:677;Page:74. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
HONE HARAWIRA (Leader—Mana) 
: 
 Hoi no me mihi atu ki a tatou katoa e te Kaiw’akawa o to tatou nei Whare i te ra nei. No reira tena koe kua hoki nei ki to turu hai kaitohutohu i a matou roto i tenei o nga Whare. No reira me mihi atu ki a koe. E tautoko anoki au i nga mihi a taku whanaunga a Te Ururoa ki te hunga kua w’eturangitia nga mate kua ngaro atu ki tena atu o te arai. E tika ana kia mihi atu ki a ratou katoa te iti me te rahi hakoa ko wai hakoa no hea kua ngaro atu no reira e nga mate haere koutou haere koutou ngaro atu e. I te mea ko ratou kua ngaro atu wetahi nga tino pou o te Ao Maori ta taua nei whaea a Auntie Sanu tera ano hoki a Kataraina Mataira me taku matua nohoki a Dim Edwards ratou katoa te tini me te mano kua ngaro atu. E tangi ana hau mo hau ano mo matou ra o te ao kikokiko nei me te mea kua ngaro atu wera o nga pou o to tatou ao. No reira ratou ki a ratou tatou ano ki a tatou e hui tahi nei. Tena koutou huri rauna kia ora tatou.  
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So acknowledgments to us all today Mr Speaker of this House of ours and to you as well for returning to your Chair and being an adviser to us in this of the Parliament Buildings. I commend you. I endorse the tributes by my relative Te Ururoa to those immortalised the deaths lost beyond that veil. Custom demands that we accord a tribute to them all the few the many regardless who they are and where they are from. So to you the deaths depart travel on until you are lost from view. Because they are lost from us some of the great pillars of Maoridom are gone our mother figure Auntie Sanu Kataraina Mataira as well and my uncle Dim Edwards all of them the few the many all are lost. I of this physical world lament them personally. It seems like those pillars are lost from us. Leave them there to rest among themselves while we meet here together amongst ourselves. Collectively then throughout the House greetings to you and to all of us. 
] 
Christmas time—and I am looking forward to getting away and hopefully not seeing too many of you fellows over the Christmas break. If you come up north when you go through Awanui two kilometres past Awanui is a big Maori flag on the right-hand side of the road. 
Hon Tau Henare 
: Just keep going! 
HONE HARAWIRA 
: Keep going; just do not stop.  
Whatever you do enjoy yourselves. Be good to children—your children and any other children. Enjoy your whanau. Enjoy this beautiful land that we have. Those of you who get the opportunity to spend time at home with your family please do so and come back refreshed and ready for what I pick is going to be quite a battle over the next 3 years. But we will leave that for the new year. We will leave that for after Waitangi Day and those who do not get arrested at Waitangi we will see you back in here on the 7th. Hoi no.  
To the Labour leadership kia kaha koutou ki te whawhai kai mua i a koutou. 
[y 
ou as a collective be strong in the battle ahead of you. 
] 
Nanaia I am looking forward to you and sister Hekia sparking up over the next months. It should be quite enjoyable.  
To all those of us regardless of what parties we are with—the big parties the small parties whoever we are—to all of the staff in this place who look after us. We are a pampered lot. We are truly a pampered lot and that gives us the ability to do our job without any concerns whatsoever about whether or not we are going to get to our office and it is not going to be clean or tidy or whether or not we are going to miss out on our kai. There is just everything provided for us. There is the security and everybody in this place—they must hire them because of their ability to smile because they are always nice. I have yet to come across any of the staff in Parliamentary Service who treats me badly apart from the Speaker of course. 
Hon Members 
: Oh! 
HONE HARAWIRA 
: Ha ha! Hoi no me mihi atu ki a tatou e nohonoho nei e ’hakareri ana kia hoki atu ki te wa kainga. No reira koutou tatou tena koutou tena koutou huri atu huri noa. 
[ 
I really need to acknowledge those of us seated about before me and making ready to head home. So greetings to each of you throughout the House collectively then greetings to you and to all of us 
.] 
I hope you do get the chance Chris. I really enjoy listening to your karakia. Tena koutou. Kia ora tatou katoa.