Issue 9

July 2013

Manuhiri Kaitiaki Charitable Trust

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Manuhiri Kaitiaki Charitable Trust Manuhiri Kaitiaki Charitable Trust 307 Leigh Road

Whangateau, 0985 Phone: (09)4226548 Fax: (09) 4226547 Website: www.ngatimanuhiri.iwi.nz

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Tena Koutou Katoa,

Chairman of Ngati Manuhiri Settlement Trust

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My name is Jessie Chapman and I am a descendant of Ringi Paraone, Son of Rahui Te Kiri and Tenetahi Pohuehue. I was employed by the trust on the 11th of June 2013, as the administration and support officer.

Open Day

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Open day/ Planting at Tawharanui

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Kaitiaki Monitoring

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Kiwi Translocation

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Welcome

My role here is to assist the manager and plan, organize and control the administrative activities within the trust. I look forward to furthering my career with the trust and utilizing my skills to the best of my ability for and on behalf of our hapu. Hei Kona mai me te aroha Jessie Chapman.

Manuhiri Kaitiaki Charitable Trust The purposes for which the Trust are established are to supervise and

administer the Trust’s Environmental work and any Trust fund in accordance with this Trust Deed and every charitable purposes benefiting the beneficiaries and every charitable purpose benefiting Maori

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Tributes are flowing for former Maori All Black and Ngati Wai Trust Board chairman Laly Haddon QSM. The lifelong Pakiri resident died at home last week aged 74, after being diagnosed and treated for cancer some years earlier. More than 1000 people attended his tangi on Saturday at the Omaha Marae in Leigh. Among them were Sir Douglas Graham, Winston and Wayne Peters, Sid Going, Waka Nathan, and Shane Jones, Jim Maniapoto. Former All Black (1995-1999) Glen Osborne of Omaha was among the many to call during the week while Mr Haddon lay in state at home and at the Marae. "Dad would have been well entertained by his spectacular friends during his tangi," daughter Olivia Haddon says. "We have been surrounded by so much love and we are still grieving. It was an astounding experience at the Marae. I have learned so much about his rich life and the contributions he made to the community. He was admired by so many people. Ngati Wai Trust Board chairman Haydn Edmonds says it is a sad time for the tribe and community. "Laly was highly regarded. He was a great New Zealander. I have been down to Omaha Marae and there are a lot of Europeans and Maori from the length of the tribal area who have come to pay their respects. "He led the tribe for 16 years. He was a gentleman who was as fun and as serious as you can get." Auckland Council Rodney ward representative Penny Webster says Mr Haddon supported her when she first stood for the former Rodney District. Mr Haddon was a councillor on the old county council. "He was a great guy. Very concerned about his community. Laly lived life to the full. His Waitangi Day hangi were legendary." Warkworth event manager Dave Parker says Mr Haddon's contribution to the community has been immense, from sport to politics and whanau. "He was a great leader of his people. Our district will miss his character, the inspiration and indeed his wonderful sense of humour." Mr Haddon was behind the creation of New Zealand's first marine reserve at Leigh, served on the Auckland Conservation Board, and was the Hauraki Gulf Forum chairman. He received a QSM in 2009 for his services to conservation over three decades.

He was father of Olivia and Ben and grandfather to Mataia, Kahurangi, and Isla. Mr Haddon and wife Sharley ran the Pakiri Beach Horse Rides, a popular tourist attraction.

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Department of Conservation Auckland Conservator Sean Goddard says Mr Haddon was an environmental leader. He was a "mighty totara" who achieved a great deal for Pakiri, the wider Rodney District, and islands in the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park, he says "Laly will be sorely missed. He worked closely with DOC and was instrumental in helping form relationships with local tāngata whenua over the management of Hauturu-Little Barrier Island." Mr Haddon helped with predator trapping to save threatened birds at Pakiri. He also worked with Project Crimson to plant hundreds of pohutukawa in the wider area. Hauraki Gulf Forum chairman and Hauraki District Council mayor John Tregidga acknowledges Mr Haddon's tenure as forum chairman, saying he brought mana and momentum to the job. Mr Haddon played rugby for Tomarata, Omaha, and Rodney. Rugby historian Clive Akers says Mr Haddon was usually a No 8, flanker, or lock. He played 77 games for North Auckland from 1963-1973, 23 games for New Zealand Maori from 1964-1973, and was an All Black trialist in 1966. "For NZ Maori he played alongside many All Blacks, the Going brothers, Tane Norton, Billy Bush, Kent Lambert, George Skudder, Buff Milner, Eddie Stokes, Mike Parkinson, Ken Carrington, Mac Herewini, Ron Rangi, and John Collins. "He partnered the great Waka Nathan on the side of the scrum against the 1965 Springboks and 1966 Lions. He also played for NZ Maori against the 1971 Lions and 1973 All Blacks." He played 109 first-class games, scoring 16 tries.

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Open Days at Trust Offices From the 18th-20th June, the Resource Management Unit hosted Cultural Awareness Open Days at our offices in Whangateau. The local community, schools, organisations and Whanau were all invited to attend. A powhiri was held on the first day. We had a range of exhibits covering the work we do here including the Taonga on the Move Art Container, mammalian pest control, hapu membership and environmental work. There was a cup of tea and sausage sizzle available to all visitors. Darcy talking about his mahi on our maunga Tamahunga

Cherie showing the “ taonga on the move” documary in the artwork container, also making a harakeke putiputi with our visitors

In all we estimate we hosted between 50-60 visitors and the feedback has been very positive, but we’re always learning and next time it will be bigger and better!

Pricilla Introducing the staff

Our Local Community

Fiona our environment officer

Tena koutou katoa, From the 18th -20th of June we had our first big interaction with our local community. We were finally able to share and show our community/ whanau/ hapu our mahi (work) and how we each contribute to our office in different areas. Fiona’s PowerPoint presentation was really informative, it caught the interest of Government departments, some of our community based volunteers and also our whanau. Cherie worked from our Artwork Container, introducing our wonderful art work from our three creative artist from our hapu Ngati Manuhiri. People got to see some of Ngati Manuhiri rohe such as Omaha, Pakiri and Leigh where our Marae is situated, through the documentary. Fiona is presenting her work with a wonderful power point, on the environment around the rohe of Ngati Manuhiri.

Darcy entertained everyone with his interesting work with rodent trapping on our maunga “Tamahunga”. He had people laughing and jumping with excitement. He show them some of our beautiful toanga such as Kiwi, Morepork ruru, Tui and Kereru. He’s working hard to protect them from rodents. I got to show our community, and some of our hapu and whanau how I work with our registration, breaking down the statistics and showing people how pan-tribal– worldwide spread. Our hapu have become. I truly enjoy working alongside my co-workers and whanau. I’m proudly sharing our knowledge, interest and involvement with our whenua. Our open day sparked incredible feedback from everyone that came, we even planned an open day for our local schools Pakiri and Leigh which was held on the 3rd of July. That was amazing and having it fall on Maori Language Week was a tohu (gift) I would like to thank some of our young men Joseph Chapman and Mana Williams for their time and help cooking our barbeque, also to our newest member to our Office staff Jessie Chapman for her awhi in all our departments.

Te Ao is explaining the values of being a register member of her tribe Ngati Manuhiri

Working here at the Manuhiri Kaitiaki Charitable Trust has been an amazing journey for me so far, thank you Mauri Ora, Te Ao Rosieur

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Leigh School News Last month, we all celebrated Matariki. We had a day full of activities, which included making Matariki designs paint on bamboo pou, sharing a lunch of vege soup and Maori bread, having a Kapa Haka performance and listening to a visiting speaker from the Warkworth Library. It was a great day despite the cold weather and rain. Room 1 and 4 also visited the artwork container at Whangateau. This converted container houses art work by local Maori artist and the children were able to view the art and watch a video about the work that the Ngati Manuhiri Trust is doing around the local area. Children were also able to do some flax weaving, make a tracking tunnel for predators and learn about how traps for pests work. Our Kapa Haka performance group will be performing at the Sawmill on Thursday 25 July at 6;30p.m, so go along and support them, they love a big audience! We now have two week holiday which will give us all a chance to recharge the batteries and beat the bugs that have affected staff in particular, this term! Julie Turner Principle

SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH TOSSI It’s the last planting day, so come and have some fun PLANTING AT TAWHARANUI SUNDAY 4TH AUGUST Time: Arrive at Tawharanui at 9am, follow the signs from the gate BBQ Lunch Provided:- A BBQ lunch with salads and trimmings will be provided for all the hard working volunteers. What to bring: All your family, neighbours and friends (no dogs allowed sorry). Wear clean, strong shoes/boots, a mid-morning snack, drink and a sunhat/rain coat and gloves. Some tools are provided. SEE YOU THERE!!!

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Kaitiaki Monitoring A key task of the Resource Management Unit is to undertake iwi consultation on Resource Consents submitted to Auckland Council where they include earthworks or works in or near waterways. Often these works are related to individual landowners, but from time to time there are bigger projects that we get involved with. One of those is the Millwater subdivision at Silverdale, which is eventually going to be home to 10,000 people. Millwater was started approximately six years ago and Ngati Manuhiri has been involved since the very beginning. Initially work included identifying cultural sites of

significance and working with the archaeologists, but today work continues through monitoring sediment controls and in protecting/landscaping sites of significance. The 2012/2013 earthworks season is now closed, and the ground stabilized but the long, hot summer was a real bonus to the developers. However, the drought ended spectacularly and over the last month or so we have seen some very heavy downpours. One of the first in May resulted in some sediment laden runoff pooling on the road due to a blockage, but this was eventually directed into a sediment pond. Grass has now stabilized the site. Last month Fiona toured all the areas earth worked over the summer to ensure all had adequate sediment controls and ponds in place. Another major development within our rohe has been at Gulf Harbour. A longstanding pro-

ject, change of ownership and economic conditions has seen development falter from time to time, but things are getting underway again at Fairway Bay. As the three stage development commences, Ngati Manuhiri has been re-engaged and we will continue to work with the owners to ensure our cultural footprint is reflected and the environment protected. Large projects are not always subdivisions, and in Warkworth we have been recently consulting on the Hudson Road intersection upgrade with NZ Transport and Wharehine. The intersection just north of Warkworth township is being widened and traffic lights installed. Storm water is being re-directed through new rain gardens and swales which will help treat the runoff naturally before it feeds back into the Mahurangi via nearby drains and streams. Fiona has completed two inspections to discuss the work and to view the temporary sediment pond installed for the works.

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Kiwi Translocation At the end of May and again in June, North Island Brown Kiwi were translocated from Motuora Island to the Kaipara – the first reintroduction of Kiwi to the greater Auckland mainland area in 50 years. Their new home is on a private farm where the owners, Kevin and Gill Ads head with support from their local community, schools and Ngati Whatua O Kaipara, have restored 400ha back to native bush. The effort has taken 7 years of planting, fencing and pest control and the project is now known as the Mataia Restoration Project. The kiwi originally came from Northland, collected as eggs which were then hatched at Auckland Zoo as part of Operation Nest Egg. Once hatched the juveniles are moved to Motuora

Island - a kiwi crèche - until they have grown big enough to be able to fight of predators such as rats, stoats and cats. Up to 14 Kiwi were to be translocated to Mataia this year, but they proved elusive for the first catch team in May who were only able to catch 5. This required a second effort in June where a further 8 were collected. Fiona McKenzie representing Ngati Manuhiri went to the island the second time to help the team but found that catching a kiwi is not as easy as it sounds – ‘they’re very fast on their home turf’. It was 2am before the team had their complement of 8 kiwi.

Paul and Peter from the Whangarei Doc Kiwi catch team process a large healthy male kiwi

All the birds were weighed, measured, banded and if they didn’t have one already when released from the zoo, pit-tagged. They all also have radio-transmitters so that Kevin and Gill can track them for the first few weeks and months as they settle into their new home. The following Nature space link tells you all the birds names and shows tracking images of them exploring their new environment – just click on the images http://naturespace.org.nz/galleries/

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Kiwi in catch boxes being welcomed at Glorit Hall Kaipara by enthusiastic locals

As for the first release, there was a large community presence at the Glorit Hall for the second release where the birds were welcomed. Ringi Brown spoke on behalf of Ngati Manuhiri.