TE PANUI RUNAKA A MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF KA–I TaHU NEWS, VIEWS AND EVENTS KAIKO–URA RU–NANGA | TE RU–NANGA O NGA–TI WAEWAE | TE RU–NANGA O MAKAAWHIO | TE NGA–I TU–A–HURIRI RU–NANGA TE HAPU– O NGA–TI WHEKE | TE TAUMUTU RU–NANGA | TE RU–NANGA O KOUKOURA–RATA | WAIREWA RU–NANGA O–NUKU RU–NANGA | TE RU–NANGA O AROWHENUA | TE RU–NANGA O WAIHAO | TE RU–NANGA O MOERAKI | KA–TI HUIRapa RU–NAKA KI PUKETERAKI TE RU–NANGA O O–TA–KOU | HOKONUI RU–NANGA | WAIHO–paI RU–NAKA | O–RAKA apaRIMA RU–NAKA | AWARUA RU–NANGA KAHURU-KAI-paEKA – APRIL 2014 I tukuna mai tēnei whakaahua e Leah Wilson nō Waihōpai. Tēnei marama • Launch of Te Korowai Strategy pgs 4-5, 38-39 • International success for Ngāi Tahu cyclist pg 13 • Booker Prize winner visits West Coast pgs 7, 8 • An Italian war pilgrimage pg 30 • Te Ahikaaroa to visit Greece pg 11 • Rangatahi wānanga pg 31 1 Nā te Kaiwhakahaere E ngā tini aituā The Te Pūtahitanga team are out The implementation of the strategy o te wā, hanatū and about with their road show will assist us in better managing rā ki te kāinga providing information on what the the future of the Kaikōura marine wairua i te structure will look like and more environment and the richness rangi, ā, okioki importantly asking the hauora of resources that supports the mai rā. Rātou organisations and whānau members economic, social and cultural future ki a rātou. for feedback and advice. of the Kaikōura community. Tātou ki a tātou. Mauri ora ki a tātou. Kei aku In other recent developments On Saturday 12 April, the Waitaha rangatira huri noa i te motu, ka nui around Te Waipounamu, Te Cultural Council Trust hosted the te mihi, ka nui te māriri ki a koutou Rūnanga o Kaikōura hosted the Waitaha Senior Kapa Haka Regional i runga i ngā tini āhuatanga o te wā. Prime Minister and officials for the competition. Ten groups competed Tēnā rā tātou katoa. announcement by the Conservation this year to represent Waitaha Minister Nick Smith of the Kaikōura at the national senior kapa haka Last month marked a significant Marine Management Bill. The Bill, competition, Te Matatini 2015, event for the nine iwi of Te once passed by Parliament, will including, eight from Canterbury, Te Waipounamu with the signing of provide for a new marine reserve, Iti o Tahuna from Queenstown, and Te Pūtahitanga o Te Waipounamu, a whale and fur seal sanctuary, five Ngā Tumu ki Otago from Dunedin. the Whānau Ora Commissioning customary fishing areas and new Three groups qualified to represent Agency contract with Te Puni recreational fishing regulations. Waitaha at Te Matatini 2015. Kōkiri. Minister Tariana Turia is very excited and thrilled with the Te Rūnanga o Kaikōura has worked I would like to acknowledge the expertise and experience of the closely with Te Korowai o Te Tai Waitaha Council for organising an organisation to assist and help build o Marokura with this project from awesome event, which was enjoyed whānau capacity in Te Waipounamu its inception, working alongside by all who attended. Also I extend and empower whānau to create Kaikōura communities to drive the a mihi to all the participating their own pathways. kaupapa. groups who have worked hard with composing and practicing their Kaiwhakahaere tuarua Lisa We are all immensely proud of programme for the competition over Tumahai has been elected as interim the outcome. The philosophy the past several months. chair of Te Taumata, the governance underpinning Te Korowai was group mandated to make decisions adapted from the Fiordland Congratulations to Ngā Manu a on behalf of the iwi shareholders of Guardians, where, in 1995, a group Tāne, Te Ahikōmau a Hamoterangi Te Pūtahitanga. of commercial and recreational and Te Pao a Tahu, who will fishers, Ngāi Tahu, tourism be representing Waitaha at Te Te Taumata are currently recruiting operators, environmentalists, Matatini, and on behalf of Ngāi directors for Te Pūtahitanga. marine scientists and community Tahu whānui we wish you all the Once this recruitment process is representatives came together to best at Te Matatini. finished, the process to fulfill further address the escalating pressures on positions will commence. the marine environment. Te Rūnanga o Kaikōura He pēpi Nau mai haere mai ki a Kaitatea Leith Hepi. A second son for Tom and Leiani Hepi, born on 15 February, weighing 6 pound 10 ounces. He is a little brother for Kahurangi and new moko for Jeff and Carol Reardon and Tom and Airini Hepi. Proud big brother Kahurangi holding his little brother Kaitatea. 2 Wairau Bar visit On 13-14 February Department of Conservation board The visit also included a trip to Grovetown Lagoon, a members, Gina Solomon and Amelia Taylor attended freshwater wetland just outside Blenheim. The lagoon a hui in Blenheim. Day two included a site visit to is being restored to create a healthy habitat for fish and the Wairau Bar, visiting various wāhi tapu sites and birdlife. historical areas. Richard Bradley and Judith McDonald from Rangitāne explained the history of this area, Volunteers have been at the heart of the restoration pointing out specific places where tangata whenua which is a combined effort between mana whenua, the gathered a variety of kai to feed their whānau. To the Grovetown community, Department of Conservation, right of the Wairau Bar you could see Parinui o Whiti Nelson Marlborough Fish and Game Council and the NZ overlooking this magnificent piece of paradise. Landcare Trust. Hui members gather to learn more about the Wairau Bar. The hui focused on history, wāhi tapu sites and mahinga kai. Visit by His Highness Dr Majid Sultan Al Qassim The Department of Conservation recently brought His Highness Majid Al Qassim from the United Arab Emirates to visit Takahanga Marae. His Highness and his entourage were not visiting in their royal capacity but to enjoy a cultural experience. It was a pleasure to host them and share our kawa and tikanga with them. They are very passionate about the environment and did notice many similarities between both our cultures. Profile of the month “Our family was made up of two and I was the younger Norman Kerei Keepa of the first whānau. I had a wonderful older brother, Norman Kerei Keepa looks back on his childhood, John, who was like a mentor to me and he was the remembering how he grew up feeling Māori but looking one who took me on a hīkoi to learn about resource Pākehā, thanks to his Scottish family connections on his management - without me actually knowing I was mother’s side. He tells us the Māori tamariki wouldn’t learning. He was an avid hunter, so he would take me play with him. To them, he looked Pākehā but the in the hills to teach me the rongoā plants and how to Pākehā wouldn’t play with him as he was half-caste. He use their health properties. He had learnt from our felt he grew up in a very awkward place as a result and grandmother, Mahara Kerei Keepa, and he showed me tended to lean toward finding whānau groups outside his how to get a feed in the bush and how Papatūānuku childhood. was going to supply it all to us while we were there. He taught me the pounamu trails and wāhi tapu sites right “As I moved into teenage years, I was attracted to down the coast, out to the back of Hanmer and all of motorcycles and also motorcycle gangs as I felt accepted those areas. I was a very fortunate man, to not only have regardless of race.” my older brother (John), as a father figure but also a mentor.” It was tough from that perspective but great from another, as he had a Scottish mother who was tough After leaving school Norm became a butcher and then he and a Māori father, who was involved in all political brought a farm on the West Coast. Through those early spheres including the Kaikōura Council and a number of years he was able to apply all of those teachings. It was community organisations; and who did a lot of his work then that he realised the damage that was being caused from home. to our lands by farming activity. 3 “We had lost touch with the fact that Papatūānuku, At 32, Norm was diagnosed with chronic lymphatic the rivers and the streams were the blood veins. The leukemia (CLL). He was then farming and married with wetlands (the repo) were her kidneys and they were a young family and a mortgage and given six months to being ploughed under and the rivers were not being two years to live. At first he felt very sorry for himself. protected. That turned into anger and he started to lash out and project his anger on others. But gradually he became It was after this that Norm threw himself into resource more accepting and realised he had two choices –roll management at Takahanga Marae and listened to the old over and die, or get cracking. people like Bill Solomon, Tini King and Darcia Solomon. He says they helped him and told him not to be afraid to Norm says he was fortunate that he had a big mortgage learn. and three kids. Fortunate because he had to put his head down and arse up and work like hell to clear the That was Norm’s start in resource management. He mortgage and make sure his kids’ education was sorted now believes it was a lifestyle he lived from boyhood in and the family was secure.