Rurawhe Adrian: Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Bill — First ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeRurawhe Adrian: Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Bill — First Reading[Sitting date: 24 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11222. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]ADRIAN RURAWHE (Labour—Te Tai Hauāuru):Ā tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare otirā korōria harerūia ki a koe e Ihoa ngā mano. Tūāuriuri whāioio kī tonu te rangi me te whenua i te nui o tōna korōria ā tihei mauri ora! Mai i Te Rakiura ki Te Tonga whiti atu ki Te Wharekauri ki te rāw’iti toro atu ki te uru piki ake ki Te Reinga ki Te Tai Tokerau ngā kokonga e whā o Te Motu o Aotearoa tae atu ki Te Awa Tupua e rere nei.E ngā w’ānau i raro i te kapua pōuri kei te hīkoi i roto i te ātaarangi o ngā whārua o te mate mauria mai rā ō koutou pare kawakawa kia tangihia i te wā iti nei. Tēnei te tangi apakura e aku parepare aku w’akaruruhau e te mūrau o te tini te wenerau o te mano kua maunu ki te waka o aituā kua huri kāweka i ngā rangi i ngā wiki i ngā marama kua ta’a ake nei. Ko koutou ērā e taka’i ana i te ara tukutuku o Poutama kia eke ki ngā rire o ngā rangi ki te karanga o Te Runga Rawa e moe e moe e moe! Ā kāti mō tēnā.Nō reira e Te W’are tēnā tātau ōtirā e tika hoki kia tuku mi’i atu ki a koe e Te Ariki e Tumu. Tēnei te mi’i ake ki a koe tēnā koe! Oti noa ki a koutou ki a tātau ngā ‘apū me ngā tupuna ro’e o te awa o W’anganui anei au tuku mi’i atu ki a koutou ngā paerangi ngā poutama ngā hau. Ngāti Hāua Ngāti Kura Ngāti Pāmoana Ngāti Patutokotoko Ngāti Peketūroa Ngāti Rangi Ngāti Ruakā Ngāti Tuera Ngāti Tupo’o Ngāti Uenuku Hinengakau Tamaūpoko Tupo’o Tama’aki Uenuku. Tēnei te mi’i ake ki a tātau katoa. Tēnei a’au tō koutou w’anaunga e tuku mi’i atu ki a koutou ki a tātau ngā uri o Te Awa Tupua nau mai ’aere mai ki Te W’are Pāremata nei.’Aere mai ki te pānuitanga tuata’i o tēnei pire hei whakatau tēnei kerēme mō Te Awa Tupua tēnā koutou. Kua roa te wā kua rongo tātau i te kōrero o Te Minita. Neke atu i te 150 ngā tau kei te haere tēnei kerēme. Ka ’uri aku w’akaaro ki a rātau i tuku tēnei kerēme i te tuata’i. Ki a Kaiw’are Kiriona Tanginoa Tapa Te Kira Taina Tonga Tume Hōhepa Hekenui Hēnare Keremeneta Te Rama W’anarere Hekenui Whakarake Tītī Tihi Pongātu Tau Taka-i-te-iwa Anderson Kahukiwa Whakareke. E tika ana kia tuku mi’i atu ki a rātau.Ka w’akapiri ’oki aku w’akaaro aku mi’i ki te mi’i o Te Minita me tōna whakahua i ngā ingoa e mōhio ana tātau;ki a Hikaia Amohia nāna i tuku atu te kerēme i te tuatahi. Tā Te Atawhai Taiaroa me pē’ea te mihi ake ki a ia. Ki a Rangiti’i Ta’upārae Matiu Māreikura Niko Tangaroa Koro Pestel;ki te pāpā Te Anga Tipa rātau katoa. Hoi anō e tika ana kia tuku atu te reo poroporoāki ki a rātau nō reira e ’oki e moe e moe. Oti noa i runga i ngā kupu ā kui mā ā koro mā:“Ripi ripia hae haeā! Ripi ripia hae haea turakina! Paranitia atu koko o te ngāngara kai tangata uē ā! He a’a te to’u o te ringaringa! He kawakawa tuku ki raro ki a ope rā! He toro ki a ko te w’akatau o te mate uē ā uē ā!”. Ā nō reira aku w’anaunga tēnā tātau.[Greetings to you Mr Assistant Speaker and at the same time glory and hallelujah to Jehovah of the inumerable thousands. Heaven and earth is filled with the greatness of his glory behold the breath of life! From Stewart Island in the south across to the Chatham Islands in the east stretching forth to the west ascending to Cape Reinga in the north. These are the four corners of New Zealand including Te Awa Tupua flowing here.To the familes clouded by sorrow walking in the shadow of the valley of death bring forth your wreaths of mourning to be mourned at this brief moment. I mourn and lament my fortifications and havens and the dread of the multitude and envy of thousands who have departed on the conveyance of mishap over the past days weeks and months. Youare the ones going up the stairway of Poutama to the extremities of the heavens at the call of the Almightyabove; rest sleep and slumber! Let us leave that there.So acknowledgments to us all the House but at the same time it is fitting that I acknowledge you paramountchief Tumu. I acknowledge and greet you! Furthermore I greet you andwesubtribes ancestral regions of the Whanganui River the horizons genealogiesand winds.Ngāti Hāua Ngāti Kura Ngāti Pāmoana Ngāti Patutokotoko Ngāti Peketūroa Ngāti Rangi Ngāti Ruakā Ngāti Tuera Ngāti Tupo’o Ngāti Uenuku Hinengakau Tamaūpoko Tupo’o Tama’aki and UenukuI acknowledge you all. I your relative extend this greeting to you and to us all the descendents of Te Awa Tupua welcome welcome to this House.Welcome to the first reading of this bill that will settle this claim for Te Awa Tupua. Well done to you.It has been a long time. We heard what the Ministerfor Treaty of Waitangi Negotiationssaid that this claim has been going on for more than 150 years. My thoughts turn to those who made this claim in the first place Kaiw’are Kiriona Tanginoa Tapa Te Kira Taina Tonga Tume Hōhepa Hekenui Hēnare Keremeneta Te Rama W’anarere Hekenui Whakarake Tītī Tihi Pongatū Tau Taka-i-te-iwa Anderson and Kahukiwa Whakareke. It is fitting that they are acknowledged.I also append my thoughts and congratulations to the Minister for his pronunciation ofthe names we are familiar with;to Hikaia Amohiawho submitted the claim the first time;to Sir Te Atawhai Taiaroa—how many more accolades can we heap on him; to Rangiti’i Tahupārae Matiu Māreikura Niko Tangaroa Koro Pestel andUncle Te Anga Tipa—all of them. So it is only fitting that we accord them a farewell tribute so rest slumber sleep. Furthermore and in the words of our elders men and women: “Slash and cut up slash and cut up overturn it brand the head of the monster that consumes man uē-ā! What is that in the hand? It is the mourning wreath to be handed to that entourage as a tribute of death over yonder uē-ā!”. So my appreciation to us my relatives.]The Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations has spoken about Te Pā Auroa nā Te Awa Tupua. This provides a framework for moving forward. I am very pleased about the nature of this framework. It provides seven principal elements that encapsulate the way that we all feel about Te Awa Tupua in a way that honours the awa in its rightful manner. I want to add my mihi to those who have taken responsibility for bringing this bill to this House today.It has been a long journey for those who have been directly involved with bringing this bill to the House so I acknowledge every single one of the negotiators for their tenacity in transferring the understanding the knowledge and the mauri of the awa into a bill that fairly reflects the way that we feel about the awa. It could not have been an easy journey. I can only imagine from my experience the battles that went on behind the closed doors to bring this to fruition so that it can come here to this House—this House that decides laws and brings new laws and settlement bills like this into law.Not that we ever needed a law for the Te Awa Tupua. Te Awa Tupua is ingrained in our hearts and in our minds. I think that this piece of legislation with its framework that has a human face for our awa is charged with the responsibility of ensuring that the health and well-being of Te Awa o Whanganui—Te Awa Tupua—is able to be maintained not so much for us here today but for future generations.I do want to acknowledge the rangatahi who have journeyed here to Parliament to witness this. They have a responsibility for future generations to remember this day and the last 150 years and that this is but a means to give the full recognition of Whanganui iwi as well as the awa itself in the days to come. Nō reira kāore e roa tēnei tū otirā e tika ana kia tuku mi’i atu ki a rātau mā rātau katoa i hara mai Te Awa o W’anganui ki Te W’are Pāremata. Nō reira e mi’i ana a’au ki aku w’anaunga i runga i ēnei kupu nei: e rere kau mai te awa nui mai i te kāhui maunga ki Tangaroa ko au te awa ko te awa ko au.[This delivery therefore is not a long one but at the same time it is fitting that I pay a tribute to them my relatives all of them who came from the river of Whanganui to Parliament and I do so with these words: the mighty river flows from the mountain cluster to Tangaroa the sea; I am the river and the river is me.]