Te Korowai O Wainuiarua
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• Voting will close on 17 July 2015. Time and Venue and Time and Venue and Te Korowai o Wainuiarua Voters must complete a special vote if they: Date Location Date Location • Register on the UCT member database during the 6pm Hokonui Marae, 3pm Kihikihi voting period but before the closing date Friday 11 Hyde St, Saturday Bowling Club, PATHWAY TO SETTLEMENT of voting 26 June Gore 4 July 17 Lion St, Kihikihi • Wish to vote but do not want to register with UCT 5pm Te Hohepa Te 3pm Holiday Inn, • Did not receive their voting pack in the mail; and Saturday Kohanga Reo, Sunday 2 Ascot Rd, • Do not have their voting paper they received 27 June 34 Phillips St, 5 July Mangere, Auckland Uenuku Charitable Trust Proposed Settling historical Treaty of Waitangi in the mail but want to cast their vote at the Christchurch mandate hui. 1pm Airport Motel, 6pm Putiki Marae, Mandate claims (NZ Government overview) Sunday 142 Tirangi Rd, Friday 10 Takarangi St, Uenuku Charitable Trust (UCT) seeks the mandate Claims for breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi before For further information please visit 28 June Rongotai, 10 July Whanganui to negotiate the comprehensive settlement of all 1992 are known as historical claims. Settlements aim www.uenuku.iwi.nz or contact the election helpline Wellington historical Treaty of Waitangi claims that relate to the to resolve these claims by providing some redress to 0800 666 030 6pm Angus Inn 3pm Paraweka central Whanganui Large Natural Group (LNG). claimant groups. Thursday Hotel, Saturday Marae, UCT Mandate Timeline 2 July 507 Railway Rd, 11 July 2527 Raetihi Rd, The central Whanganui LNG has been named Te What is a historical Treaty of Waitangi settlement? Publicly advertised 13 June 2015: Hastings Pipiriki Korowai o Wainuiarua (TKoW). TKoW includes the The Treaty of Waitangi was signed by Māori rangatira, Mandate voting period begins 19 June 2015 descendants of Tamakana, Tamahaki or Uenuku ki or chiefs, and representatives of the British Crown 6pm War Memorial 10am Te Puke Marae, Manganui-a-te-Ao, nā Tukaihoro. in 1840. Friday Hall, 153 Sunday 49 Ohakune Rd, Mandate Hui: 3 July Hakiaha St, 12 July Raetihi Historical claims are made by Māori against the 26 - 28 June - Gore, Christchurch, Wellington Taumarunui Crown for breaches of the Treaty - times when the 2 - 5 July - Hastings, Taumarunui, Kihikihi, Auckland Who is Uenuku Charitable Trust 10 - 12 July - Whanganui, Pipiriki, Raetihi Crown didn’t uphold 1 or more of the three Treaty The purpose of the mandate hui is to: (UCT)? articles - before 1992. • Provide information about Crown settlement At a Hui-ā-iwi on 1 February 2014, Uenuku Charitable Voting Closes: Historical settlements aim to resolve these claims and Voting will close on 17 July 2015 policy, the Uenuku Charitable Trust and the Trust was established to enable the adequate provide some redress to claimant groups. When a mandate process; and provision of services to ensure economic, social, settlement is reached, it becomes law. cultural and educational development and to lead the Draft Deed of Mandate (DOM): • Mandate the Uenuku Charitable Trust to Propose publicly advertising result of represent TKoW in negotiations with the Crown Treaty of Waitangi claims in the Central Plateau. voting and draft DOM early August 2015 Who’s involved in a settlement? for the comprehensive settlement of all the At the request of the people, UCT set up a large historical Treaty claims of TKoW. representative governance model with the provision The Crown settles with Large Natural Groups (LNGs) Submission on draft DOM: of 38 seats available on the Board of Trustees - communities with a common ancestry. LNGs are Submission period August 2015 Information on the general settlement process and known as claimant groups, and can be made up of: UCT Mandate Strategy can be found on: consisting of: • Mandated hapū delegates (26 seats available) • single iwi Response to Submissions: • The Office of Treaty Settlements website Consider and respond to submitters September 2015 www.ots.govt.nz • Three mandated marae representatives • a group of iwi • The Te Puni Kokiri website www.tpk.govt.nz (3 seats available) • a collection of hapū from the same geographical area. Deed of Mandate: • Three mandated representatives of Treaty Crown make decision on mandate • The Waitangi Tribunal website www.waitangi-tribunal.govt.nz of Waitangi claimants (3 seats available) The Crown is the government, and government agencies. The Office of Treaty Settlements (OTS) • The Crown Forestry Rental Trust website • Three representatives of Uenuku uri who live outside of the rohe (3 seats available) negotiates with representatives of claimant groups on How to Vote www.cfrt.org.nz behalf of the Crown. • Three mandated rangatahi representatives • The UCT website www.uenuku.iwi.nz What a settlement provides • The voting period is from Friday 19 June 2015 to (3 seats available) Friday 19 July 2015. You will receive a voting pack Settlements give 3 kinds of redress to the claimant in the mail, or email. Currently, UCT is in the process of electing new group. Trustees with nineteen candidates seeking 1. A historical account of the Treaty breaches, and • You can only vote once. endorsement from their respective constituents prior Crown acknowledgement and apology • Postal voting using the prepaid return envelope; or to being ratified at UCT’s Annual General Meeting on the 12th July 2015. The historical account details the ways that the • Online voting using a unique identifier; or Crown breached the Treaty. The Crown and the • Voting by using ballot boxes at Mandate UCT rents an office at 156 Seddon Street, Raetihi to claimant group must both agree on these. The Voting Hui. undertake activities on behalf of the Iwi. Crown will acknowledge and apologise for the UCT is also engaged with other claims on behalf Treaty breaches and the impact they had on the of Uenuku including Tongariro National Park and claimant group. Taurewa Forest. 2. Cultural redress In July 2014, the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi indicative only and will be refined through the procedures. In the case of Waitangi Tribunal Claimant Cultural redress can include things like: Negotiations recognised the TKoW LNG. UCT mandate process. and Kaumātua, UCT will run an open and transparent • place name changes published their mandate strategy on behalf of the TKoW Wai Claims included in the mandate strategy appointments process. TKoW claimant community in December 2014. • the transfer of Crown land to the claimant to be represented by UCT are Wai 73, 458, 836, 843, Advisors – UCT will utilise a number of advisors group, and 954, 1072, 1073, 1084, 1170, 1181, 1189, 1192, 1197, where appropriate and when required. UCT will use 1202, 1224, 1261, 1388, 1393, 1394, 1633, 1738, its best endeavours to utilise internal resources and • co-governance of rivers and lakes. Te Korowai o Wainuiarua Area of 2203, 2204 capacity within Hapū groups where appropriate. 3. Commercial and financial redress Interest and Claimant Definition The following Wai claims relate to TKoW in part This is cash, property, or a mixture of both. Te Korowai o Wainuiarua area of interest of only. Only the parts of these Wai claims that relate Te Korowai o Wainuiarua Claimant Tamakana, Tamahaki and Uenuku begins on Ruapehu The settlement process to TKoW will be covered by the mandate and will be UCT Treaty Negotiation Communities Maunga, Paratetaitonga down the Whakapapa Nui There are 4 stages in a Treaty settlement. negotiated by UCT. This will not extinguish these Wai Structure to the Whanganui River. Then down the Whanganui 1. Pre-negotiation - claims. These claims are Wai 48, 81, 146, 167, 221, Tamakana when the claimant River to the southern boundary of the Koiro Block, group will mandate people to represent them in 428, 555, 759, 1191, 1229, 1594, 1607. Working then to the northern boundary of the Maraekowhai Groups negotiations. The Crown and the representatives Block and onto the Taranaki Boundary. The boundary will sign Terms of Negotiation. then moves in a south west direction along the Treaty Negotiation Structure Claims Tamahaki 2. Negotiation - when the representatives and the western boundaries of Maraekowhai Block and Governance – UCT Board will sign off on all important Committee Crown negotiate a final Deed of Settlement. Taumatamahoe Block. Then in a south east direction documents (such as Deed of Mandate, Terms of Vehicle The claimant group must agree to the proposed down the Whakaihuwaka Block then across to the Negotiations, Agreement in Principle, and a draft settlement before moving to the next stage of the Whanganui River, down the River to Matahiwi. Then Deed of Settlement). The TKoW claimant community UCT Research Committee Uenuku process. follow the Matahiwi track to Raukawa Falls then will be required to approve the Deed of Settlement 3. Legislation -when the settlement across to Rangiwaea Junction and onto Rakatapauma through a formal ratification process. UCT will becomes law. Pa, down to Mataroa and across to Moawhango. Up present an initialled Deed of Settlement to the the Moawhango River to Lake Moawhango, then the Waitangi 4. Implementation - when the Crown and claimant community for their ratification, allowing Negotiation Tribunal boundary goes to the Whangaehu River and follows the claimant group work together to make all registered adult TKoW members to vote and Claimants that river to Te Waiamoe then up to Paretetaitonga. sure everything agreed in the Deed of decide. UCT will not receive the settlement. A new Post Settlement Governance Entity (PSGE) will be NOTE: Settlement happens. The map is not exclusive. It is intended to be The THREE working groups will have developed and approved by the TKoW community to representation from the FIVE claimant Kaumātua receive the settlement. communities including Tamakana, Tamahaki, Uenuku, Waitangi Tribunal Working Groups – UCT will establish the following Claimants and Kaumātua.