Korako Nuk: Te Hiku Claims Settlement Bill — First ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeKorako Nuk: Te Hiku Claims Settlement Bill — First Reading[Sitting date: 04 November 2014. Volume:694;Page:587. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]NUK KORAKO (National):Tū a Te Kahukura tūtū Te Heihei! Tū a Te Kahukura tūtū Te Ruki! Te Kahukura uta Te Kahukura tai! Te Heihei Kahukura mai Te Heihei Kahukura atu! E tū mai rā koe e te tihi o Kahukura e! E mai e mai e mai e te tipua? Mai e mai e mai e te tawhito? E haere mai i a koe i a Whakahōtunuku i a Whakahōturaki? Ko tōu manawa ko tōku manawa! Ko Tāne tā i hea? E tūturu mau kia whakamaua ka tina haumi e hui e tāiki e! Ā tēnā rā koutou pou waitaka o tō tātau Matua Tīpuna. Ā tēnā koutou o ngā iwi o Te Hiku ko Ngāti Kuri NgāiTakoto Te Rarawa Te Aupouri. Nau mai me ngā wawata me tauiwi kia whai hua kia whai tika. Ā nō reira e piki mai kake mai hōmai te wairua. Nō reira e mihi e mihi e mihi atu ki a koutou katoa.[Arise Kahukura standfast Te Heihei. Arise Te Kahukura standfast Te Ruki! Te Kahukura inland Te Kahukura shorewards! Te Heihei Kahukura here Te Heihei Kahukura there! Rise up before me you the summit of Kahukura behold! Where are you from the demon and the ancient? Are you from Whakahōtunuku or Whakahōturaki? Your heart is my heart! Where is Tāne’s one from? Hold fast to it secure it draw together and affirm! Acknowledgments to you particularly our Lord’s creators and you the tribes of Te Hiku Ngāti Kuri Ngāi Takoto Te Rarawa and Te Aupouri. Welcome with the aspirations and non-Māori so that it bears fruit and it is proper. So come aboard mount up and give us the spirit. I therefore commend acknowledge and salute you all.]I rise to support the first reading of the Te Hiku Claims Settlement Bill. I want to highlight some of the important things that this bill actually includes. First of all the hallmark of this bill is the fact that the legislation will see one of the largest returns of land to Māori ownership. The place we call the tail of the fish is steeped in historical cultural and spiritual significance. It is the spiritual link to the ancestral home of Hawaiki. It is the land walked by Kupe. The settlement legislation provides for some unique and special arrangements that recognise the importance of these lands. The karakia timataka that I did the prayer—ko Tūtehounuku Korako ahau. Ko Auraki Mauka Ko Waitaki te awa. Ko Kai Ngāi Tahu Kāti Māmoe Waitaha ngā iwi. [I am Tūtehounuku Kōrako. Auraki is the mountain Waitaki is the river Ngāi Tahu Kāti Mamoe and Waitaha are the tribes.]In quoting that second part of where the spirits depart from—where I live in the Port Hills of Rāpaki o Te Rakiwhakaputa there is a mountain there called Te Tihi o Kahukura. On that mountain is where we farewell our spirits because from there they head north to Te Rerenga Wairua. That karakia is “Yonder the Rainbow”.Yonder the rainbow brightly gleamsYonder the rainbow vaporous gleamsThe rainbow is ashore the rainbow at seaI want to acknowledge today the whānau and the iwi for your tenacity and for your hope and dreams. They are coming to fruition. My iwi Kāi Tahu have been on that journey. It is a journey where you have fair wind and foul wind but as long as you keep your head on the horizon and looking towards it the waka will come to the landing. This will surely happen to you. The important connection Te Hiku iwi have with Te Oneroa-a-Tōhē as a place of customs spirituality and sustenance is recognised in this settlement just like the wāhi tapu in Te Wai Pounamu so I salute you. Te Hiku will have increased decision-making powers over conservation lands under the korowai for enhanced conservation. That to me is about tino rakatirataka.Finally alongside the significant cultural sites it is actually about the key commercial assets. As we as an iwi have found once the redress has happened you will have the opportunity to be able to exercise your economic benefits within your own lands. Nō reira if I could finally congratulate the Office of Treaty Settlements on the work that it has done on this claim. Also I want to acknowledge our colleagues te Roopu Reipa and New Zealand First—kia ora Pita—for the collegial work that we all do for the sake of Māori. This is a true reflection today. I commend this bill to the House.Nō reira e Te Hiku ka mihi e mihi e mihi atu ki a koutou katoa. Kia ora.[Therefore I commend acknowledge and salute you all Te Hiku. Thank you.]