Jones ShaneHon SHANE JONES (Minister of Forestry): Te Reo Māori i te tuatahi. Taupō-nui-a-Tia ngā maunga huratau Tongariro Ngāuruhoe ka tū atu ki a Ruapehu Tūwharetoa iwi Te Heuheu tangata tēnā koutou ka tatū mai ki roto i tēnei Whare whakaharahara whakahirahira i tēnei rā i whakaritea hei whakatutuki mā mātou ngātahi me koutou i ēnei nawe ko te hia rā nei roa e tārewa ana ki waenga tonu i a koutou ko te Karauna. Te wahanga ki te hunga kua whetūrangitia. Taku tūranga mutunga nāku anō i mihi atu ki ngā rangatira pērā i a Pat Hura mā nāku anō i mihi atu ki a Patsy ki ngā kaumātua i mōhio ai ahau i roto i te tamariki ki te kura i Tipene. Nā reira e kara e Tumu tēnei ahau te tāpae nei te ingoa o tō pāpā i te aroaro o te motu waenga tonu i a tātou i raro i te tuanui o tēnei Whare. Tō pāpā nāna te iwi Māori i whakakotahi i tōna wā. Te kaumātua nāna a Te Ātairangikahu i tautoko hei tuara mōna nā reira rātou ki a rātou tātou ki a tātou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa. [The Māori language to start with. Taupō-nui-a-Tia the surrounding mountains of Tongariro Ngāuruhoe and right up to Ruapehu the tribe of Tūwharetoa Te Heuheu people greetings to you all who have arrived at this marvellous House this important House on this day which has been organised for us and you to jointly address these grievances they have been unresolved for a very long time between you and the Crown. The part for the people who have become deceased. In my last stand I acknowledged the chiefs such as Pat Hura and others I also acknowledged Patsy and the elders whom I knew amongst the children at St Stephen's School. Therefore friend Tumu I present the name of your father in the presence of the country amongst those of us who are under the ridgepole of this House. Your father who united the Māori tribes in his time. The elder who supported Te Ātairangikahu and was a backbone for her therefore let the departed remain with each other and us living be with each other greetings greetings thrice greetings.]In our Māori language I acknowledged a number of the people who have gone on but in particular I acknowledge te ariki the paramount chief of Tūwharetoa Tumu te Heuheu and recite the name of his father because 100 years ago there was a te Heuheu in this Parliament. A hundred years ago Tūreiti was a member of the Legislative Council. It was during that period of time after he had worked with Taiaroa of the Ngāi Tahu to assemble a group and to drive forward the notion of a Kotahitanga movement that he eventually took up the position of being in the Legislative Council. Oh that he were here today to hear the speeches and to witness in 100 years the distance that ordinary Kiwis politicians professionals and those who make up our increasingly diverse community—what we have grown into.Of course it's virtually 150 years ago that what is regarded as the final incident of the so-called Māori Land Wars took place at Te Pōrere where Te Kooti escaped wounded but the chief of Tūwharetoa was wrongfully arrested for being perceived as having offered shelter and offered assistance to that redoubtable warrior chief of the Māori world Te Kooti Rikirangi. It was during the Second World War that one of the most famous cases pertaining to our Treaty of Waitangi took place at the Privy Council between the paramount chief te Heuheu of that time and the Aotea District Maori Land Board. That is when the Privy Council established the dictum that unless the Treaty of Waitangi was incorporated into actual municipal domestic legislation in New Zealand it had no status. So we are talking about leaders and a body of our Māori tribal community that in many respects have been at the forefront of various attempts to bridge the gap between the colonial powers of that time creating a rallying point for Māori endeavour. So it's with a great deal of pleasure on behalf of my leader and my colleagues from all across the House to stand and acknowledge what has been achieved today.What has been said in our Māori language is that what we do today creates the platform to move forward. The quantum the land the resources are an important endowment but I think it's fair to say that because these settlements go to the actual foundational influences of what makes up New Zealand the Crown represented by that historic figure Queen Victoria and the rangatira wearing the koka and holding the hani as reflective of that original partnership. So we stand very proud today alongside not only Tūwharetoa but the Ministers.I do want to acknowledge Minister Christopher Finlayson. He has had a tremendous period of advocacy leadership and toil in this space. Of course there will be some who will think back on that time and think Did New Zealand do too much and pander to too many of the aspirations of iwi?" No they didn't. Whoever the Minister is holding this role we are stewards for our broader community but we also seek to right the wrongs of the past. As he goes forward into a private life—that is very good; we will no longer have to tolerate his sarcasm in this House but I have to say it's been what we say in Māori a type of "reo kawa": a provocative sort of language—I only hope that when he journeys around Aotearoa and has his holidays they are closer to Ngāi Tahu and Tūhoe. For God's sake don't go to Ngāpuhi!To the officials who have given of their time to the Pākehā professionals who have also provided leadership in bringing the kaupapa to this particular point this is a part of New Zealand where there genuinely were sacrifices given not the least of which is when te Heuheu responded to Grace that one way forward was to gift the maunga and then they would remain as a permanent contribution and a permanent taonga. This is also the area where our Māori soldiers came back to from the First World War. It was te Heuheu and Tōpia and Kīngi who provided land heading over towards the Ruahine as redevelopment settlement farms for our men coming back from the First World War. Now a cynic might say there was so much empty space that it was a natural thing to do but the reality is that history records that not only have the people of this area provided a great rallying point for our own people but they have provided on a host of occasions very generous gestures and they should be recited on this day as a small part of what was lost is restored back into the care of the iwi.E kore wēnei mihi āku e koni atu e kara e Tumu atu i tēnei. Aha tautoko ana nei i te kōrero a taku tamaiti a Peeni kei konā ngā kōrero i waenga tonu i a mātou e koutou mō te wā i a Tāmati Waka Nene mō te wā i a Te Wera Hauraki waiho wēnā hei take kōrerotanga mā tāua ki runga i ō tāua marae. I tēnei rā ko te reo tēnei o te kaitōrangapū he mihi atu ki a koutou he mihi atu ki ngā Minita nō reira tēnā koutou tēnā tātou kia ora tātou katoa.[These acknowledgments of mine won't be more than this my friend Tumu. And I support the speech by my nephew Peeni the narratives are indeed still amongst us for you about you at the time of Tāmati Waka Nene the time of Te Wera Hauraki leave these as topics of conversation for the two of us on our marae. Today this is the voice of the politician greeting you all I acknowledge the Ministers therefore greetings greetings greetings to us all.]"