Young Jonathan: Ngai Tamanuhiri Claims Settlement Bill — Third Reading 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Young Jonathan: Ngai Tamanuhiri Claims Settlement Bill — Third Reading 
[Sitting date: 26 July 2012. Volume:682;Page:4057. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
JONATHAN YOUNG (National—New Plymouth) 
: 
 Tena koe. E nga reo e nga mana e nga hau e wha; ko Jonathan Young taku ingoa. Tena koutou tena koutou tena koutou katoa. 
[ 
Greetings to you. To the languages authorities and four winds; my name is Jonathan Young. Greetings salutations and acknowledgments to you all 
.] 
It is my great pleasure and privilege to be able to stand in support of and speak on this third reading of the bill for Ngai Tamanuhiri the Ngai Tamanuhiri Claims Settlement Bill. Before I speak I just want to extend the apologies of Mrs Tolley who cannot be here today because she is unwell. She would love to have been here to acknowledge this day with you. 
I want to bring my thoughts round to my colleague’s comments—my colleague from the Maori Affairs Committee—regarding Te Kuri a Paoa slash Young Nick’s Head. I think that was a very interesting and forthright comment that the honourable member Horomia brought out. We all know the European history. Nicholas Young was a sailor on Captain’s Cook ship on his first voyage here. He was just a young boy and he was a stowaway on the  
Endeavour 
. He sighted Young Nick’s Head as it was called because of that sighting by him—but it was also called Te Kuri a Paoa—on 7 October 1769. 
I remember when as a young boy we would have holidays as a family on the East Coast and whether it be true or not my mum and dad said to me that that boy Nick Young was one of our forebears—we came from the Youngs. Look I do not know whether it was true or not. Maybe it was one of those stories that a dad told his son. Maybe it was part of our mythology. But let me tell you how it made me feel and how I now understand how you feel: it made me feel important. It made me feel that this was a place of beginning. It made me feel that here was a significant place that I had attachment to. That is from a Pakeha. How much more how much more for you. 
So I want to talk about the slash because the slash is not a cut to the heart. The slash is the joining of peoples. It is like you would take for example two branches and you would graft them together. In order to do that to make a living people a living tree there is a slash—there is a cut. So my thought to you today is that I know what you are saying honourable member but perhaps there is also another way to look at it because if we can resolve our past and build our future together as New Zealanders in Aotearoa and have a future and I know that the redress never measures up to what was lost it is something that you can take and you can move forward with. 
So it has been a long long time and we have come to this place come to this afternoon. My hope and my prayer is that from this day forward you will find increased strength you will find increased resolve and you will find increased ability to feel the mana to feel the location and the reconnection and that you will have some economic strength to build your future and that together we will build this small nation into a great nation. Tena koutou tena koutou tena koutou katoa. Kia ora.