Jones Shane: Ngati Whatua Orakei Claims Settlement Bill — Third Reading 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Jones Shane: Ngati Whatua Orakei Claims Settlement Bill — Third Reading 
[Sitting date: 14 November 2012. Volume:685;Page:6699. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
Hon SHANE JONES (Labour) 
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 Only 5? Poto noa ake tenei tu. Tautoko i nga kupu kua puakina hei whakanui i tenei rangi mo nga uri a Tuperiri. He penei te korero. Ta Tuperiri ko Tarahawaiki me tana kuia i roto o Waiohua a Mokorua ka puta ko Apihai Te Kawau koutou katoa nga uri a Tuperiri nga maramara a Nga Oho Te Uringutu Te Taou i roto i te karanga a-iwi a Ngati Whatua ki Orakei. Tena koutou tena koutou tena tatou katoa. 
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This stand is but a short one. I endorse the words that have been disclosed today about the relatives of Tuperiri. The talk goes like this. Tuperiri begat Tarahawaiki who through his elderly woman from Waiohua Mokorua gave birth to Apihai Te Kawau and as a consequence all of you the descendants of Tuperiri the bits and pieces of Nga Oho Te Uringutu Te Taou within the tribal calling of Ngati Whatua at Orakei came to be. Salutations acknowledgments and congratulations to us all. 
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It is 100 years since 1912 when this House was petitioned by Otene Paora to address the iniquity the erosion and loss of land and mana of people of the three hapu I have referred to in Te Reo Maori: Te Taou Te Uringutu me Nga Oho otherwise known in modern Maori parlance as Ngati Whatua ki Orakei. 
That it is in this particular year that this Treaty event is taking place is a reminder of how long the road has been for this section of Te Ao Maori to address what originated from the visit of Te Kawau’s son to my area in Ngapuhi with the suggestion that the Crown move to a more tranquil area other than the Bay of Islands and into Waitemata. It was a grand gesture driven in itself by a prophecy but unfortunately as the fangs of colonialism etc. sank into Tamaki-makau-rau our relations have ended up with only a small part of their original estate. 
I remember in 1977 after Hone Harawira had left St Stephen’s School and it was a far better place going with some of the Hawke whanau and being received at Takaparawha—Bastion Point. St Stephen’s School was a somewhat conservative place judged by the quality of rugby and occasional oratory and I think the name of the kaumatua with the long grey hair might have been Eddie Hawke nana nga kupu whakatau. 
He was the one who welcomed us and despite my very strong Croatian credentials I was the orator for St Stephen’s School to be told by Colin Clark: “You kids at that St Stephen’s School you need to hang out with us more often. Then you’ll learn to be real Maoris.” Unfortunately we went there one night and came back with a black eye so it was not a place for the faint-hearted but to all the whanau whom Hone has referred to the pathway ahead is clear. The super-city is large and formidable. Leave the pouwhenua of indigeneity in every corner of the super-city’s existence. 
Do not surrender to the growing power of ethnic diversity unless you are absolutely confident that our indigenous identity our language and our heritage are respected by all. Aotearoa is now definitely a matarau place a place of many faces but there is one Treaty and our tupuna with the Crown ensured that our Maori identity culture language and legacy must not be wiped out. Tena koutou tena tatou kia ora tatou katoa.