Flavell Te Ururoa: Ngāi Te Rangi and Ngā Pōtiki Claims Settlement Bill — First ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeFlavell Te Ururoa: Ngāi Te Rangi and Ngā Pōtiki Claims Settlement Bill — First Reading[Sitting date: 24 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11201. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon TE URUROA FLAVELL (Minister for Māori Development) on behalf of theMinister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations: Tēnā koe Mr Assistant Speaker. I move That the Ngāi Te Rangi and Ngā Pōtiki Claims Settlement Bill be now read a first time. I nominate the Māori Affairs Committee to consider the bill.Kai aku rangatira o Tauranga Moana tēnā koutou haere mai. He ngāwari tā koutou noho kua oti kē i a mātau te tuku i tētahi kupu kōrero ki te wāhi ngaro anā kua rongo ngā uri o Ngāti Hineuru i tērā karakia ā nō reira kua ea tērā kua huri ki a koutou katoa kua haramai i raro i a Mauao ā i Te Ākau o Tauranga Moanatēnā koutou haere mai haere mai haere mai!Ēhara tēnei hīkoi ō koutou i te huarahi hōu kua tae kē mai a Ngāti Ranginui kua tae kē mai a Ngāti Pūkenga. Nā kua eke ki te rā ā kua eke mai koutou; nō reira ko tāku ko te kī ā hei wāwāhi i te āhuatanga o ngā kōrero tēnā koutou haere mai.He kitenga kanohi ka hoki ngā mahara. Tuatahi ki te hunga kua ngaro inātatanei; Colin Reeder kai te mōhio tonu koe ki te āhuatanga o to tāua hoa a Matiu i Te Whare Wānanga ka tangi ake. Nā tātau tērā i tuku ki Te Kōpū o Papatūānuku i te kotahi marama pea kua hipa ake. Ko Matiu tērā i roto i ngā whiriwhiringa mō tēnei o ngā kaupapa. Arā anō ngā pakeke e mōhiotia nei e koutou kai aku rangatira o Ngāi Te Rangi Ngā Pōtiki ko Rere Amoamo ko rātau tērā hunga tērā whakatipuranga ā ka mutu taihoa ake nei ka hoki ki ētahi kia kōrerohia rātau. Ēngari ki ngā pakeke haere mai haere mai haere mai.E Turi tēnā koe e whakakanohi nei i to pāpā. He āhua pāpōuri te ngākau kāre tērā koroua tērā o ngā pāpā i haramai ki roto i Te Whare Pāremata kia rongo i tēnei o ngā kaupapa. Ko ia te kanohi e kōrerohia ana i runga i ngā marae o Te Motu. Te kanohi o Tauranga Moana ka mutu o Ngāi Te Rangi. Ko ia ki a koe te pāpā Hauata tēnā koe haere mai. E te hoa o Te Whare Pāremata i ngā tau kua hipa ake te hōnore e Mita tēnā koe. Haramai ki te hōro haramai ki te marae o Te Whare Pāremata kua waia kē koe ki ēnei momo āhuatanga. Nō reira he oranga ngākau kua tae mai koe i te taha o to iwi ki konei kōrero ai i ngā take o tēnei rā. Nō reira e Tiare ko koe tērā te tiamana i whai wāhi nā i roto i ngā whiriwhiringa o te iwi ka nui te mihi. Ki ngā kanohi e mōhiotia ana tēnā koutou tēnā koutou.E Riri tēnā koe Wikitōria ē ko koutou kua haere mai i tēnei rā. Ko te whānau Rōritanga pai te kite atu i a koutou haere mai haere mai haere mai rā. Nō reira kia whai wāhi au ki te mihi ki Te Minita i te mea ko ngā kerēme katoa i ngā 6 tau pea kua hipa nāna tonu i āki ki te whakatakoto ki roto i Te Whare Pāremata nei kia taea ai e ngā iwi te kimi te whai tonu i tētahi huarahi hei painga mō rātau.Anā ko koutou tēnei i whai i ngā tapuwae o ngā iwi i kōrerohia nā e au inātatanei. Nō reira tēnei te huarahi i kitea e ētahi iwi i mua i a koutou anā ko Ngāti Hineuru tērā i mua i a koutou. Whai muri i a koutou ko ngā iwi o Whanganui ka tae mai ki te kōrero mō Te Awa Tupua o Whanganui. Heoi anō me pēnei rawa te kōrero kai te mōhio tonu ahau he ara tāpokopoko i whāia e koutou.Me mihi rā ki ngā mea e noho nei hei kaikōrero mō koutou.Ko te taha ki a Ngāi Te Rangi ki a Spencer Webster—kāre au i te tino kite i a ia—āe kai reira tonu ia. Ki a Mita ki a koe; ki a Willie Te Aho tērā Māori ka whai wāhi tana ringa ki roto i ngā kerēme katoa o Te Motu ēngari ā hoi anō tērā tērā. Ka mutu kia huri atu ki a Ngā Pōtiki ki a koe Wikitōria ōtirā ki a Mātānuku ā kāre au i te tino mōhio ki tō pānga ki Tauranga Moana ēngari he pai tonu. Māu tērā e kōrero ko te whakapapa ki roto o Tauranga Moana ēngari tērā pea ā-rōia nei ka mihi ki a koe. Ko koe te ringa āwhina ki a Ngā Pōtiki ka mihi ki a koe i haramai ki te taha o ngā pāpā nei o ngā kūia nei o ngā whānau nei ā tēnā koutou katoa.Kua rongo koutou i ngā kōrero o ngā mema Pāremata inātatanei mō te iwi nei mō Ngāti Hineuru. Ko te wāhi ki a au ēhara i te mea ki te whakatakoto i ngā hītori katoa ka waiho ake mā Te Minita tērā e kōrero. Ko tāku ko te kī atu kai te rongo koutou i tētahi paku rerekētanga o ngā nawe o ngā take o Ngāti Hineuru ki ērā o Ngā Pōtiki o Ngāi Te Rangi—ki taku mōhio kāo. Ki taku mōhio kāo. Muru i te raupatu ko koutou tērā. Muru raupatu ā he kaupapa e waia nei koutou ki tērā āhuatanga. Ko te muru i te whenua ko te takatakahi i te mana ā ko te tū o te pakanga. Ēhara koutou i te tauhōu ki ērā kōrero.Kia kōrero au mō te āhuatanga o Pukehinahina o Te Ranga. I tū ngā tohe o Te Karauna ki ngā iwi ā kāti kua waia kē tātau ki ngā mahi tohe a Te Karauna ngā pakanga i waenganui i a tātau. Nō reira mai i te tau 18 taku mōhio 65 ā tae rā anō ki ngā tau me kī 1970 tērā wāhanga ā i āhua pērā rawa te āhuatanga o te noho o Te Karauna ki ngā iwi o roto o Tauranga Moana otirā o Te Motu. Ko taku iwi o Ngāti Rangiwewehi i tū pokohiwi ki te pokohiwi ki Te Ranga. Ki taku mōhio pērā anō hoki ki Pukehinahina. Me pērā i te mea kua āhua tata nei te whenua e nohoia nei e ōku pāpā e ōku koroua e ōku kuia ki tērā o roto o Tauranga Moana. Ēngari ko te mate kē i raro i te ture i raupatuhia ngā whenua o Ngāi Te Rangi otirā o Ngā Pōtiki. Ko te taunga waka rererangi ki taku mōhio i murua i a koutou. Ko te āhuatanga o te rori hōu ngā wāhi o te rori hōu mai i Tauranga Moana ki Te Puke he pērā anō te āhua.Ka hoki aku mahara ki tētahi pire nāku tonu i kōkiri ki roto i tēnei Whare Pāremata. Ko te ingoa o te pire nei koMount Maunganui Borough Reclamation and Empowering Act Repeal Bill. Nāku tēnā i kōkiri ki roto nei. He aha i pērā ai? I te mea ā ko te tikanga o tērā pire he whakahoki atu i tērā whenua ki a koutou i te mea i murua e Te Karauna. Otirā i tukuna ki te kaunihera mō te aha? Kia taea ai e te kaunihera o Tauranga te tuku i tāna parapara ki roto i ngā whenua o Ngāi Te Rangi. Me kī ki te tāhuna o Rangataua ā ka tukuna te para te tūtae te aha rānei ki te ākau ki Papamoa. Nō reira ka tangi ake koirā tētahi tauira o te āhuatanga o te mahi a Te Karauna ki ngā iwi o roto i a koutou a Ngā Pōtiki a Ngāi Te Rangi ēngari he pai tonu i te wā poto kai a au kua huri pea a Ngāi Te Rangi Ngā Pōtiki ki te whai ao ki te ao mārama.Ko au tētahi i waimarie ki te tae atu ki Te Whetū ki te whakatuwheratanga o tērā kaupapa ā-whare nā. Wikitōria ko koe tērā i kōkiri i tērā kaupapa. Nō reira ā ka mutu ki Mangataua. He pērā anō te āhuatanga. He aha te mahi? He hanga whare kia tiaki i ngā pakeke kia tiaki i ngā kuia i ngā koroua. Nō reira ka mihi rā ki tērā āhuatanga. Ēhara i te mea kai te noho koutou i te pō uriuri te pō tangotango kāo! He hiahia nō koutou kia puta ki te whai ao ki te ao mārama. Mā tēnei huarahi pea ka eke ki tērā taumata. Nō reira ko te wāhi ki a au he wāwāhi i ngā kōrero mō Te Whare Pāremata i tēnei rā me te kī atu nau mai haere mai i tēnei rā.Ēhara i te mea kua mutu kāo! He tīmatanga noa ake tēnei i te mea ka haere Te Whare Pāremata ki a koutou ki te rongo i ngā kōrero ka mutu ko te pānuitanga tuatahi ā ka mana kua wātea te huarah. Nō reira kua rahi māku i tēnei rā haere mai kai aku rangatira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia ora tātau katoa.[Greetings and welcome to my esteemed of Tauranga Moana. You can rest easy; we have already paid homage to the unseen world the descendants of Ngāti Hineuru witnessed that prayer all of that has been taken care of so I turn now to all of you who have arrived from Mauao from the shores of Tauranga Moana greetings to you collectively welcome welcome welcome! This journey of yours is not a new one Ngāti Ranginui and Ngāti Pūkenga have already been here and now we come to this today to your arrival; therefore I say as a way of introducing matters on this issue salutations to you welcome.A face seen is a memory recalled. Firstly to those recently departed:Colin Reeder you knew our good friend Matiu very well at university. I lament him. It was us who buried him only a month ago. Matiu was involved in the negotiations for this matter. And there were other elders that you all know. To myesteemed ones of Ngāi Te Rangiand Ngā Pōtiki to Rere Amoamo they were the group that generation. Also I will refer to otherswhom I will talk about. However to the elders welcome come hither.To youTuri I thank you for representing your father here. I am a little bit saddened that that elderly gentlemen that uncle of ours was not able to be here in Parliament to hear these matters. He was a person who was spoken of on every marae around the country the representative of Tauranga Moana and indeed of Ngāi Te Rangi. And to youmyUncle Howard greetings and welcome to you. To a dear friend of this Parliament in years gone by to the honourable Mita greetings. Welcome to theHouse welcome to themaraeof Parliament. You are already very familiar with these occasions. It is very uplifting to see you have arrived here with your tribe to discuss the matters before us this day. And to youCharlie you are the chairman who was given this opportunity by your iwi. My sincerest gratitude to you. To all the others whom I know greetings and acknowledgments to you all.I pay tribute to youRiri to Wikitōria andtoall the others who have come this day. To the Rolleston family it is good to see you all. I bid you all welcome welcome indeed welcome. Furthermore I take this opportunity to pay tribute to the Ministerfor Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations becausewith all the claims that have gone through in the last 6 years it was he who encouraged them to be presented before this Parliament so that the tribes could quickly get on with the job of pursuing a better pathway for them all.And sothis is you—you have followed in the footsteps of those other tribes that I have recently mentioned. Therefore this was the pathway that other tribes had discovered before you and it was Ngāti Hineuru just before you all. After you the tribes of Whanganui will be arriving to discuss the ancestral river of Whanganui. However let me put it this way I know it is a billowy course that you have travelled.I want to thank those who are here as spokespersons for you.On behalf of Ngāi Te Rangi there is Spencer Webster—I cannot really see him—oh yes he is still there. To you too Mitaand to youWillie Te Aho—that Māori who seems to have a hand in all the claims around the country. However so be it. Futhermore can I turn to Ngā Pōtiki to youWikitōria and at the same timeto youMātānuku—I am not really sure of your connection to Tauranga Moana—but that is fine. You can mention it your geneology to Tauranga Moana. However as a lawyer I must pay tribute to you. You were the helping hand for Ngā Pōtiki and so I thank you forcoming along with these unclesand old matriachs of the families here. My acknowledgments to you all.You would have heard some of the contributions from the members of Parliament just recentlyin regard to Ngāti Hineuru. My contribution will benot to outline all the historical account; I will leave that to the Minister. I would like to say—you will hear a slightly different version of the concerns of the issues of Ngāti Hineuru to those of Ngā Pōtiki and of Ngāi Te Rangi—my understanding isno. As far as I know there is no justice for confiscations that is you. Confiscation is an issue that you are very familiar with. The dispossession of lands the disregard for mana—that is something that you are quite used to now. The confiscation of land the disregard for mana and the engagement of war. You are not strangers to those stories.I would like to make mention of the circumstances of Pukehinahina of Te Ranga. These were battles initiated by the Crown against the tribes. Oh well we are quite familiar with the disagreements of the Crown and the battles between us. Accordingly since 1865 and up until the 1970s—that period—that is very much how things were between the Crown and the tribes of Tauranga Moana andindeed of the country. My own tribe of Ngāti Rangiwewehi stood shoulder to shoulder at Te Ranga. And as far as I know it was similar at Pukehinahina. And I should say that because the land where my own uncles and grandparents live is similar to that land in Tauranga Moana. The only problem is—in terms of the law—the land was confiscated the lands of Ngāi Te Rangi and of Ngā Pōtiki. The airport is one place where I believe the land was taken from you. And there are the circumstances of the new road those parts of the new roadfrom Tauranga Moana to Te Puke it is the same.I cast my mind back to a bill that I actually introduced into this Parliament. The name of the bill was the Mount Maunganui Borough Reclamation and Empowering Repeal Bill. I introduced this into the House. Why was that? Because the intention of that bill was to return the land to you all as it was taken by the Crown. However why was it given to the council for whatpurpose? So that the Tauranga council could deposit their effluent into the lands of Ngāi Te Rangi let us say to the shore of Rangataua and they released their rubbish their excrement and whatever else on to the beaches at Papamoa. I weep at this situation. This is an example of the sorts of things the Crown was doing to the tribes amonst you of Ngā Pōtiki anf Ngāi Te Rangi. However it is OK. In the short time I have had maybe Ngāi Te Rangi and Ngā Pōtiki have become a bit clearer and more enlightened on the issues.I was one of the fortunate ones to go to Te Whetū to the opening of the housing complex there. It was you Wikitōria who advanced this issue. Therefore it is similar with Mangataua. There are similar circumstances. And what were they? They were to do with the building of houses to care for the elderly the old womenfolk and menfolk. Consequently I acknowledge that matter. It is not as though you are all sitting in the dark in the intense darkness—never!It is your earnest desire to enter into the glimmer of dawn and into the world of light. This pathway may assist you in reaching that pinnacle. And therefore it has been my task to begin this debate for Parliament today and to say to you all welcome and salutations to you today.It is not as though it is all over; no this is just the beginningand Parliament will be coming to you to listen to what you have to say. It will become official following the first reading. The way will be clear. Therefore that is enough from me today. I say welcome to my esteemed elders greetings and salutations to you collectively and my appreciation to us all.]I commend this bill to the House.