Tirikatene Rino: Ngati Pahauwera Treaty Claims Settlement Bill — Third Reading 
Tirikatene Rino: Ngati Pahauwera Treaty Claims Settlement Bill — Third Reading 
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RINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga) 
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 Tangi tu ki te moana maunga haruru ki uta. Ko Mohaka te awa ko Ngati Pahauwera te iwi. Ko au ke tetahi o nga uri o Pahauwera mihi tonu atu ki a koutou e aku whanaunga. Ka mihi te aroha nui ki a koutou. 
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The sea’s lament on the shoreline and mountains resounds inland. Mohaka is the river and Ngati Pahauwera is the people. I am a descendant of Ngati Pahauwera and acknowledge that direct connection to you my relatives. Huge salutations and regards to you collectively. 
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It is a great pleasure and a very proud moment for me to stand and speak on the final passage of the Ngati Pahauwera Treaty Claims Settlement Bill. This bill is very deeply personal to me because I am very proud of my Ngati Pahauwera whakapapa and in fact there are many Ngati Pahauwera whanau whanaunga puta noa—all the way through—the Wai Pounamu. I acknowledge my dear great-grandmother or as we say in our southern dialect taua—Hauataua. Her name was Amiria Henrici and she was the daughter of Adolfus Henrici and Ropine Hinemare Te Aohi. It is a very very big whanau but she was one of that very big whanau and all of my whanaungas are here today and many of them connect up through those lines.  
The passage of this bill is deeply personal because this bill records—and I do acknowledge the Hon Chris Finlayson and his officials for the work they have put into this settlement—the history and the complete background to the grievances of our Ngati Pahauwera whanaunga and it is important that we acknowledge that.  
In regards to the attacks on Mohaka my great-grandmother Amiria was a baby at the time and her older sisters swam across the Mohaka River to escape from the Crown attacks at Mohaka. As one sister tired she handed the little baby their baby sister over to another sister. That young baby obviously grew into a fine young lady a Mohaka Pahauwera princess and they moved down to Te Wai Pounamu to the Banks Peninsula. Their father Adolfus Henrici was a very skilled boatbuilder and so he took his talents down there to Akaroa. He was very famous down there with his boatbuilding prowess.  
She married into another very big Ngai Tahu whanau down there my poua Aperahama Tupahu Solomon Score. Their two children Rangi Solomon and my tawa Ruti Matekino Solomon basically had a huge whanau right across Te Wai Pounamu and I am a product of that. My auntie and my late father were products of that and they were all brought up by our great-grandmother and that is why there is such a very close and dear affinity and affiliation to our Ngati Pahauwera side.  
I would also like to acknowledge that growing up my late father always made it very clear to us telling us the stories and making sure that we would go back. I was playing in the Reo and we would link up with Te Reo o Hamuera we would go through to Mohaka and have many a great whakamoemiti and hui on that marae and we had many wonderful 21st occasions and many ceremonial occasions in the hall—wonderful hakari wonderful times. I remember I was playing my cornet in the band but we could not match Raymond Joe and the Blue Mooners when it came to letting the hair down in the evenings in that wonderful hexagonal hall which is there in Mohaka the whare kai. So yes I am very very proud to be standing to speak on this bill.  
There are many elements to these settlements and I mentioned earlier this morning that it is not about just the money and it is not about just having words on paper. These are very deep acknowledgments and it is all about establishing the permanence of Ngati Pahauwera to their place and their connection to the Mohaka River and their whenua. So I am delighted to be here to actually speak on the passage of this bill. 
I do want to acknowledge a couple of other people whom I have had the pleasure of dealing with over the years in previous careers. One is Toro Waaka. I know Toro Waaka has worked tirelessly on the Ngati Pahauwera claim for many many years. A few years ago I took Toro overseas on seafood missions looking at new markets for our iwi fishing companies. I always saw Toro’s really entrepreneurial drive and his commitment to his mahi and that later progressed when he was a member of Te Ohu Kaimoana the Treaty of Waitangi Fisheries Commission under Shane Jones who was the chair at the time. I mihi to Toro in particular for all his work. 
I am very proud that my sisters and I are registered as beneficiaries for Ngati Pahauwera. We receive all the mail through the post and I am very delighted to receive those letters and all those updates. I also would like to acknowledge as Parekura mentioned Bishop Moxon—mihi tonu atu ki a koe—who is here today.  
There are many elements to this bill. I will not traverse the details because I know other speakers have actually gone through all the elements of it but important to me is the acknowledgment and the apology that are listed in the legislation from the Crown and the acceptance by Ngati Pahauwera of the apology. I think that shows a wonderful gesture on behalf of Ngati Pahauwera that they accept that apology in the legislation.  
Then there are also the various other aspects—the cultural redress and the commercial elements. One in particular is the mechanism to provide for Ngati Pahauwera participation in the natural resources. I think this is a significant part of all the recent settlements that are coming through particularly around the awa the rivers with the co-management models protocols letters of introduction representation on planning committees roles in nominating people to tribunals and the like. All of those are as I mentioned earlier very important in re-establishing restoring and reclaiming Ngati Pahauwera’s space their river and their lands.  
I would just like to conclude my speech by saying that I am shortly leaving. I apologise to Ngati Porou because I will not be here for the full duration of their Ngati Porou Claims Settlement Bill. I will be shortly travelling down to Kaikoura where I will be this weekend. While I am down there I will visit the urupa where Amiria Henrici is buried there in Oaro. I will call in on her and fill her in on all the great developments that are happening with all of her whanaunga up there in Ngati Pahauwera.  
I commend this bill. I mihi to all my whanaunga here Ngati Pahauwera and also all of my fellow members in this House. Kia ora ano tatou. Tena koutou tena koutou kia ora tatou katoa.