Davis KelvinHon KELVIN DAVIS (Minister for Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti): Tēnā koe Mr Speaker. E tika ana mō Te Ao Māori kia poroporoakingia tēnei rangatira kua huri tuara ki a matou nā reira e te rangatira e Mike haere te ara tiketike. Ko te ara tēnā o Mahuru e eke ai koe ki runga i a Huarau. Tīhaoa te kau kōpuni ka pahure atu i reira te kāhui kura. Te kura i nunumi ki runga ki o Rehua te kura i riro atu ki Tāpokopoko te Rangi te kura i riro atu Te Ana Mātao ki te whare taua Ngā Kurakura i Hine-nui-te pō. Whakauru atu ki roto i tō koutou whare te whare o Rangiāio takoto mai ki roto o Wharepapa o Ruakipōuri ko tēnā te whare i tītari ai ō koutou tinana. Nāu nei te kāwhaki au kume au romi au hīrere. Hīrere ki te pō hīrere ki te mate hīrere ki te pō tangotango hīrere ki te moana o te mate. Ehara koutou nō raro nei nō ngā kūrae o runga haumātao korā puku ake te aroha i haere te hau mihiata. I tau ai te rangimārie te kakara o taua anō mahi aroha i whiti ai ki te whei ao ki te ao marama. Nā reira e te rangatira e moe hoea tō waka wairua ki runga tērā o ngā awa o Tāmaki kia puta atu koe ki Te Moana Tīkapa o Hauraki. Ana kua huri ki te raki kia tae atu koe ki tērā o ngā maunga tētahi o ngā pou o te whare tapu o Ngā Puhi arā ko Manaia i tū ki te ākau. Nā hoea tonu tō waka ki Rākaumangamanga tētahi atu pou o te whare tapu o Ngā Puhi. Anga tō huri ki roto tērā o ngā moana te moana pukupuku i whiti kia pahore atu koe i te pā o tōku tupuna a Pōmare. Hoea tonu tō waka i tērā o ngā awa o ngā rangatira Taumārere-herehere-i-te-riri. Hoea tonu atu koe kia tae atu koe ki tērā kāinga nōu i a koe e tamariki ana arā ko Te Kawakawa. Tae atu ki tērā kāinga mō tētahi wā poto kia tukuna a Ngāti Hine a Ngāti Manu kia tangihia mōu. Hoea tonu tō waka whai atu i te au o tērā o ngā awaawa kia puta atu koe ki Pēwhairangi kia tae atu koe ki tērā wāhi tapu o Ngāti Rāhiri Ngāti Kawa arā ko Waitangi tērā arā ko Tau Rangatira te wāhi i noho ai ō tātou tūpuna ō mātou tūpuna ki te wānangahia i Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Hoea tonu tō waka kia puta atu koe ki Te Tai Tama Wahine haere tika tonu ki te whakateraki kia tae atu koe ki a Motukawanui ki Motukawaiti arā ko Matauri tērā tō kāinga i a koe e ora ana i waenganui o Ngāti Kura. Hoea tonu tō waka kia tae atu koe ki a Rangaunu te ara takingia koe i Te Iti Pioke. Nā anga tō huri ka kite atu koe Maunga Tohoraha i mua i a koe whai atu kia tae atu koe ki a Hikurua ki ērā atu o ngā tōpito o Te Ika o Te Hiku o Te Ika kia tae atu koe ki Te Rerenga Wairua atu i reira ki Manawatāwhi atu i reira ki ngā Hawaiki i kōrerohia e ō tātou mātua tūpuna arā ko Hawaiki nui Hawaiki roa Hawaiki pāmaomao. Nā reira e te rangatira haere atu rā ki a rātou e tatari ana mōu. E moe e moe e moe. Kua ea ō mahi ki runga i te mata o te whenua. I whakapau i ngā kaikōrero i mua i ahau te whakamāramatanga o te teiteitanga te hōhonutanga o ō mahi i a koe i runga e hīkoi ana i runga i te mata o te whenua. Nā reira e te rangatira haere haere haere atu rā. Nā reira rātou ki a rātou te hunga wairua kua hoki mai ki a tātou ngā kanohi ora kei roto i tēnei Whare puta noa tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa. [Greetings Mr Speaker. It is appropriate to the Māori world that this leader who has turned away from us is farewelled; therefore oh chief Mike travel the lofty pathway. That is the path by which you alight on Huarau. The multitudes are assembled and that is where the esteemed company passes on. The dearly departed which went out of sight over Rehua the beloved taken by Tāpokopoko to Rangi the adored taken by Te Ana Mātao at the house of grieving of Ngā Kurakura i Hine-nui-te pō. Enter into your house the house of Rangiāio lie in state in Wharepapa o Ruakipōuri that is the house within which your bodies lay spread out. It was you who seized who dragged the current pressing the current to become a torrent. A torrent to the night a torrent to death a torrent to the intense dark a torrent to the ocean of death. You are not from below from the headlands of cold winds where love wells up and the dawn breezes blow. Peace has descended the scent of that work of love crossing to the living world the world of light. Therefore oh leader rest paddle your spiritual canoe on that river of Auckland to emerge at the Hauraki Gulf. Indeed you have turned to the north to arrive at that mountain one of the stalwarts of the sacred house of Ngā Puhi—namely Manaia which stands on the coast. So continue paddling your canoe to Rākaumangamanga another stalwart of the sacred House of Ngā Puhi. Turn your direction to that ocean the lumpy ocean which was crossed to reach the fortified village of my ancestor Pōmare. Continue to paddle your canoe on that river of Taumārere-herehere-i-te-riri. Continue paddling until you arrive at yonder village which was yours when you were a child—namely Te Kawakawa. Arrive at that village for a short time so that Ngāti Hine and Ngāti Manu can mourn for you. Continue to paddle your canoe follow the current of the gorges to emerge at Pēwhairangi to arrive at that sacred place of Ngāti Rāhiri and Ngāti Kawa that is at Waitangi—namely Tau Rangatira the place at which our ancestors stayed our ancestors to discuss the Treaty of Waitangi. Continue to paddle your canoe to emerge at Te Tai Tama Wahine continue directly to the north to arrive at Motukawanui and Motukawaiti that is at Matauri which was your home when you were alive amongst Ngāti Kura. Continue to paddle your canoe to arrive at Rangaunu the route which leads you to Te Iti Pioke. So if you turn you will see Mount Tohoraha before you follow it to arrive at Hikurua to the other extremities of the Fish of the Tail of the Fish until you arrive at Te Rerenga Wairua and from there to Manawatāwhi from there to the Hawaiki that were spoken about by our ancestors namely Hawaiki nui Hawaiki roa and Hawaiki pāmaomao. Therefore oh chief travel to those who are waiting for you. Rest rest rest in peace. Your tasks on earth are complete. The speakers before me have comprehensively explained the greatness and depth of your work while you were on and walking the face of the earth. Therefore oh leader farewell farewell farewell. Therefore let the spiritual beings remain unto themselves; we return to the living faces in this House throughout greetings greetings greetings to us all.]When I heard that Mike Moore had passed away I was in Kaikohe standing in the middle of a field waiting and listening to the Rt Hon Winston Peters the Hon Shane Jones and the Hon Nanaia Mahuta making some announcements. It struck me that I was really only half an hour away from the place where Mike Moore grew up. That place was Kawakawa—funnily enough the same town that I grew up in. The high school that he initially went to was the same high school that I went to. In fact he was the first of four members of Parliament to go through Bay of Islands College: himself the late Pita Paraone myself and Willow-Jean Prime. Funnily enough he left from there to go to Dilworth which is also the school that my father attended. One of the houses that he grew up in—funnily enough I also spent a bit of time in that very house. It was on the main street of Kawakawa. By the time I was loose on the streets of Kawakawa in the 1980s his house had actually become our local spacies parlour. I remember—it must have been in the 1980s—when he arrived in Kawakawa and visited that house and that was the first time I had set eyes on Mike Moore. Sadly I haven't seen him for the last 12 months but I visited him last Christmas at his home in Matauri Bay and spent a bit of time with him there. Despite the fact that he had been afflicted with a number of health issues his mind was still sharp with clarity of thought and he had a number of instructions for us to follow. I was pleased to be able to see him then and sad that since that time I haven't had an opportunity to catch up with him. But of course our thoughts go out to his widow Yvonne. Everybody who has spoken before me has laid out the heights of his achievements and the depth of his thinking and New Zealand has lost a great man. So from this Kawakawa boy I just am very honoured to be able to pay tribute to a former Kawakawa boy and wish him best on his journey to ki tērā taha o te arai as we say in Māori—to the other side of the veil. Nā reira tātou mā huri rauna i tō tātou Whare tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia ora mai anō tātou. [Therefore to all of us right around our House greetings greetings greetings again to all.]