SpeechHon SHANE JONES (Minister of Forestry): Kia ahatia ngā manuhiri kua tatū mai ki kōnei tukuna māku ēnei kōrero ōku e takitaki ki tētahi karakia nō roto i ōku whenua i a Ngāpuhi. Otirā ka whakarerekē wētahi kupu kia ōrite ai ki te kaupapa o te rā.Pū kaukau mai rā te uri pūriri ko Hine noa te mātakitaki tangi āmiomio te karoro ko Hine Moana te papaki ki te ākau roa e kui e kui. Kei taku pīpīwhararoa kōkō tūrou kei hea koe? Ko tēnei tāu ko te karere a Mahuru tū mai rā a Maunga Pōhatu. Whakaeke mai te toi tio mai ai ko ko ko koia. Tē koa ia te Urewera koia ka tipu whakaritorito ai. Taku pua kōwhai e purotu nei i te ata ki te rau kūmara. Haeata tonu i te maru ahiahi ki te Huiarau. Nau mai ia waewae taitua ki te whenua pongi e tau nei. E whiti whiti te wanawana whiti te rearea whiti ora ki te whai ao ki te ao mārama. Tihē wa mauri ora.Te tikanga o tēnā kōrero he tohu kua tae mai taua manu i ngākaunuitia ai e ō tātou weinga arā ko te karere a Mahuru. Me pēnā te whakamārama mō te hanga o ngā mahi e oti ana rā roto i ngā kupu kua tuhia ki te kapu o te pepa i runga i te Pire kei tō tātou aroaro i tēnei rā.Tōna tikanga he maheatanga. Arā noa atu ngā mahi whakahāwea arā noa atu ngā mahi tūkino i meatia ai ki te hanga nei e meatia ana ko ngā Iharaira. Kātahi ka mauherehere te Mihaia ka taotūngia ka mate ko te tamaiti.Nā reira ko tā mātou he tautoko i tēnei tau i tēnei wā kātahi te wā o te Wiki o te Reo Māori. Tuarua tēnei wā e karangahia nei e tātou e te iwi Māori ko te Mahuru tuatoru te rangi e whakatairangatia ana tēnei taumata hou hei whai mā wā tātou tamariki arā kia ākona whānuitia mārikatia ai ngā ākonga ngā tauira katoa kei ngā hau e whā o Aotearoa ki te hītoria me ngā tātai kōrero mō Aotearoa hoki rawa ki te wā i tatū mai ai ō tātou tūpuna i Wawauātea ki Aotearoa.Arā noa atu māku te kī ngā mihi e tika ana kia tau ki runga i a koutou ngā uri kua tae mai i tēnei rā. Tētahi kōrero hei tukunga māku taku mihi atu ki tēnā huanga ōku i tōna taha Ngāpuhi ki a Te Ururoa. Āhua ongaonga pai ana ngā taringa ki te whakarongo ki ōku hoa Pākehā e whakamōmori ana kia pua i a rātou Te Reo Māori. Tata ana au te mea atu ki a rātou Ko te Ururoa anō te Ururoa ko te Urewera anō te Urewera" kei whakapōhēhēngia ēra kupu e rua. Nā reira e kara nāu tēnei waka i whakatere. Tika ana koe kia hoki mai i tēnei rā ko tōna otinga me pēnei te kōrero. E tata pae mai ana ki uta.Nā reira koutou katoa ngā uri o te hunga nā rātou tērā kāinga i whakamarae nā rātou tērā kāinga i whakatū ki te whare i whakamātautau ai kia puta he kai ahakoa te anuanu o tērā kai ēnā mea katoa me te whakamīharo te kaumātua nei ehara i te mea he punarua tahi rua toru whā rima ono whitu ka hia noa atu ngā wāhine mā koutou anō e whakariterite pēnei i heke te wahine tuatahi tuarua tuatoru kei a koutou anō tērā. Nā reira tēnā anō koutou katoa.[What can I do for those visitors who have arrived here? Allow me to deliver these words an incantation from my region from Ngāpuhi. I will tailor some words to fit today's occasion.The driftwood washes ashore only Hine bears witness. The seagull squawks and it is the waves of Hine Moana crashing to the shore my deity oh my deity. Shining cuckoo the call welcomed by all where are you? Yours is to signal the arrival of Mahuru Maunga Pōhatu stands tall before me. Descend from the summit sing to me sing to me. The Urewera rejoices for its growth will be bountiful. My kōwhai blooms beautifully in the morning at the endless kūmara. Dawn still rises on the shadows of Huiarau. Welcome rays of sunlight to this boundless land. Shine bring warmth shine upon the bellbird shine on the world of light. Tihe wa mauri ora.The meaning of what I've just recited is that it is a sign that the bird our elders eagerly awaited has just arrived to signal the beginning of Mahuru. That is how you could also explain the effort that has been expended to get us to the point where those words on the paper are written to indicate the bill that is before us today.It is meant to be a clearing away. There were the many criticisms there were the many nasty words directed to those who believed in Iharaira. Then the messiah was imprisoned then the son was wounded and eventually died.Therefore ours is to support. On this day we support firstly Māori Language Week; secondly the time of the year we Māori call Mahuru; thirdly today we set a new purpose for our children that they as students learn the full width and breadth of the histories of our country going right back to the events since the great migration of our ancestors to New Zealand.And so I will say it is only right to acknowledge you the descendants who have arrived here today. I have one thing say: I would like to acknowledge my relation on my Ngāpuhi side Te Ururoa. I am pleased to hear my Pākehā colleagues attempting to speak Māori. I was close to pointing out to them "Te Ururoa is Te Ururoa te Urewera is te Urewera" lest those two words be mixed up. My friend you are responsible for getting this off the ground so it is only fitting that you return here on this day. I would put it this way: the boat is almost ashore.Therefore to you the descendants of those who fashioned a home in that place who fashioned somewhere to grow food however distasteful the food and the wonder of this elder I do not have multiple wives—one two three four five six seven or however many wives. I will leave it to you to work out if you descend from the first second third. Thank you one and all.]I stand on behalf of the New Zealand First Party and obviously as a Minister to acknowledge what we are doing here today with Te Pire kia Unuhia te Hara kai Runga i a Rua Kēnana / Rua Kēnana Pardon Bill. Rua Kēnana's father Tumoana was a casualty of those wars in the times of the originator of the Ringatū faith Te Kooti.I also said in Te Reo Māori that Mr Flavell and I went to St Stephen's School. We had a fellow student there who probably was the best student of Te Reo Māori—other than of course Wassie Shortland and my good self but he certainly was the most able in my time there—and his name was Barna Heremia. I recall him regaling the boys from Ngāpuhi and other such places with somewhat mystical stories about Maungapōhatu and te taimana huna the hidden diamond. Naturally we were half-Tararā and we were more interested in gum-digging than fanciful tales about diamonds. But this is a story that has lived amongst the families of the Tūhoe and the way they have treasured the memories of not only their tūrangawaewae but what happened to this particular individual.The media treated it in quite a scandalous fashion and they used the fact that he was reputedly calling himself the kaiser as a basis for initiating further legal action causing him to spend a protracted period of time in jail. I've said with some humour that he turned and answered a calling up on Maungapōhatu right in the interior of Te Urewera—a spiritual calling—but that is the tradition and that tradition was conceived to be antagonistic to good order by the colonial Governments of the time.As it transpired when Rua Kēnana went through his various court cases it was a Ngāpuhi who was the interpreter the kaiwhakamāori kaiwhakapākehā. He āhuatanga o tēnā Ngāpuhi he ōrite ki ahau. Ko te nuinga o ngā tūpuna he Pākehā he Tararāhake rānei engari he mea whakatupu e tana kuia Māori.[One of the traits of that Ngāpuhi is similar to my own. Most ancestors were Pākehā or Dalmatian but he was brought up by a Māori grandmother.]The name of that interpreter was Hare Hongi otherwise known as Henry Stowell who wrote a book a vade mecum about the Māori grammar around about the time of the First World War. His grandmother whom he was reared by was called Mo-mo and Mo-mo was given that name by her old people because in those days if you did not have a strong powerful—certainly in the Ngāpuhis anyway—male figure then when the woman was married off and in this case to the Pākehā it weakened their hold on the land.Ko te kaumātua nei ka heke mai te kuia e karangahia nei ko "Mo-mo" nā ko koutou ko Tūhoe he maumau anō hoki engari he rerekē te whakamāoritanga ki a koutou.[This elder was descended from a woman who was known as "Mo-mo". You Tūhoe are "maumau" as well but it has a different meaning to you.]So I stand as I wrap this speech up to acknowledge that what we do today is to revisit part of history and at the highest court in the land put on the pages on the legislative record of our nation's history an apology and an explanation as to what really happened at that particular point in time. It adds to the legacy it adds to the tradition and given what I've said in our Māori language it happens at a propitious time. This is what the Māori call Mahuru the springtime and it's the arrival of the pīpīwharauroa the chant that I offered at the beginning of my speech. It's also as the Speaker said earlier today the time when we have unveiled a plaque acknowledging those who fought and fell in the Māori wars and also the day and the week that we have announced that all children will be taught the proper history of Aotearoa New Zealand and in the week that we are celebrating and encouraging all New Zealanders to strip away the cringe factor and enjoy a higher level of enthusiasm and give Te Reo Māori a go.So I say to all of my friends in the House: tell your sons and daughters "Don't go to London get pissed and have the bravery to do kapa haka and ka mate ka mate; learn a bit of language before you go away." Thank you very much."