PŪRONGO Ā-TAU Annual Report 2019-2020 TE KĀHUI MARU TRUST ANNUAL REPORT 2020 1 Waitaraiti kei raro, Mangaehu kei runga, Tatū ki te raki, Te Ihuwaka ki te tonga. Ko ngā awa honohono i ēnei tongi, Ko Taramoukou, Manganui, Pātea ki te hauāuru. Tāngahoe ki uta, Whanganui, Tāngarākau, Heao ki te rāwhiti. Ko te tupuna tuitui ko Waewaeroa. Kei roto i ēnei huahanga ngā whenua, ngā awa, ngā wairere, ngā puke teitei. Ngā kōiwi o ngā tūpuna, me ngā tāonga katoa o Ngāti Maruwharanui. HAUMI E, HUI E, TĀIKI E !!! Located within the natural flora and fauna of Tarata, adjacent to the shimmering hue of the Waitara River, is a marae local Iwi and Hapū call Te Upoko o te Whenua. Akin to the Ngāti Maru Iwi, the marae has over a generation become the foundation of many whānau, most of whom have partaken in the development of what it stands for today, “a place they can call home”. CONTENTS 4 Chair’s Report Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Maru (Taranaki) Trust 6 General Manager’s Report Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Maru (Taranaki) Trust 8 Chair’s Report Te Kāhui Maru 10 General Manager’s Report Te Kāhui Maru 12 Notice of 2020 Annual General Meetings 13 AGM 2019 Minutes 14 Te Kāhui Maru LP 17 Group Structure 18 Trustees 21 Key Highlights 22 Annual Plan TE KĀHUI MARU TRUST ANNUAL REPORT 2020 3 CHAIR’S REPORT Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Maru (Taranaki) Trust I am pleased to present my Chair’s were in favour of us signing the Deed. confiscation and other policies leaving Report for Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Maru That’s a great result, thank you for your Ngāti Maru effectively landless. What (Taranaki) Trust for the year-ending 31 support! follows, down through the decades, March 2020. is numerous and repeated attempts Ngāti Maru has long fought for justice as from our tūpuna to seek justice. This We continue our journey toward a result of Crown breaches of the Treaty. culminated in the 1989 and 2002 settlement with uri voting The page-long list of our ancestors who Waitangi Tribunal claims and in 2016, overwhelmingly in October 2020 to petitioned the Crown is testament to the Rūnanga picked up the baton to support the signing of our Deed of that fact. As early as 1891 our tūpuna Te negotiate the claim on behalf of Ngāti Settlement. From the almost 48% of Kere Ngātaierua lodged our first petition Maru. registered uri who voted, 92% said they to Parliament over the impacts of Crown 4 TE KĀHUI MARU TRUST ANNUAL REPORT 2020 92% agreed to sign the Deed of Settlement I want to take a moment to acknowledge hui and events over the last five years. keep our loved ones safe and thriving. It all those who went before us and who has been a very tough year, but I think This will possibly be the last Rūnanga paved the way for the progress the we’ve shown that we can be strong in Chair’s Report. This is because once the Rūnanga has been able to make today. the face of adversity. Ngāti Maru Settlement Legislation is E koro mā e kui mā, e ōku pāhake o passed into law in 2021, the Rūnanga Have a safe and enjoyable festive season Maru kua ngaro atu ki te pō – it is my will cease to exist. Te Kāhui Maru, the everyone, and I really look forward to humble wish that, through our actions new Post-Settlement Governance Entity re-connecting with our Maru whānau in as a Rūnanga, we have honoured your (PSGE), will at that point take on the 2021. legacy and achieved some degree of Rūnanga’s assets and liabilities. So, I’d justice in memory of your name. like to take this opportunity to say it has To those alive today – I acknowledge been a privilege to be of service to Ngāti present and past fellow trustees, the Maru in the capacity as your Rūnanga settlement negotiators and most Chair. importantly I acknowledge all of our Holden Hohaia Finally, I want to thank all our kaimahi whānau, who participated in the Chair and whānau within Ngāti Maru who work ratification vote and attended numerous Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Maru tirelessly in their many communities to (Taranaki) Trust E koro mā e kui mā, e ōku pāhake o Maru kua ngaro atu ki te pō – it is my humble wish that, through our actions as a Rūnanga, we have honoured your legacy and achieved some degree of justice in memory of your name. TE KĀHUI MARU TRUST ANNUAL REPORT 2020 5 GENERAL MANAGER’S REPORT Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Maru (Taranaki) Trust Tēnā koutou e te iwi o Ngāti Maru. The and be a representative body to carry refined and tested during our regular 2019 – 2020 year has been a busy one out negotiations with the Crown to wānanga held at our Marae, Te Upoko o for Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Maru Trust. The negotiate the Ngāti Maru Treaty of Te Whenua. significant portion of our time and effort Waitangi Settlement. Once that has been It was during these wānanga that feedback has been involved with the negotiations completed, it will be disestablished. Te was sought on the various aspects of the of our Treaty of Waitangi Settlement. Kāhui Maru will then assume the role as settlement package. From that feedback, Although the settlement has absorbed the representative body for Ngāti Maru. the negotiators were able to refine and much of our focus, we have managed to We expect this to take place in 2021. focus on key areas that were important carry out a range of other functions. TREATY OF WAITANGI SETTLEMENT to Ngāti Maru. I know that we did not get BACKGROUND everything we had hoped for. However, In August this year, the negotiations the settlement is comprehensive and The Rūnanga was established in 2009 team finalised an agreed package with reflects the hopes and desires of Ngāti as a representative body of Ngāti Maru the Crown for final settlement. The Maru as outlined to the negotiations team. (Taranaki). Members of the Ngāti Maru trustees and negotiators initialed this Wharanui (Pukehou) Trust and the Ngāti Deed of Settlement and in doing so were Finally, we brought it out to you, the uri Maru (Taranaki) Fisheries Trust were agreeing to take this back to our people of Ngāti Maru to seek your approval to appointed as the initial trustees. The to be ratified. The basis of this settlement move forward and finalise the settlement. Rūnanga is a Whenua Tōpu Trust, it was outlined during the aspirations hui The response was a resounding vote of was established to administer property held in 2016. The contents were later approval where 47.6% of you voted and 6 TE KĀHUI MARU TRUST ANNUAL REPORT 2020 VISION Tihe i a Maru Ora – Behold the vitality of Ngāti Maru. VALUES Maru Mua – Understanding and learning from our history and our experience. Maru Pae – Connection to place (our whenua, awa, marae, ngā wāhi tapu). Maru Roto – Strengthening Maru within. Ngāti Maru is healthy and flourishing physically, spiritually, emotionally and culturally. Maru Taha – Strengthening relationships and building connections. Maru Muri – Strengthening Maru’s future prosperity. The response (to signing the Deed of Settlement) was a resounding vote of Maru Tiketike – Reaching for the heavens approval where 47.6% of you voted and – innovation and outstanding achievement. 92.2% voted in favour of the settlement. 92.2% voted in favour of the settlement. whanaunga iwi. At times some of these an example of how powerful we can be This has sent a strong message to discussions were tense and not always when we are together and act as one. Trustees to keep moving forward and positive. However, we have managed to Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he finish the settlement. navigate ways forward with each other toa takitini. and are currently in the process of re- We had hoped to finalise negotiations by REGISTER establishing links and connections based signing the Deed before the end of the on whakapapa and a shared interest to Our registered numbers continue year. Trustees had expressed a desire to see each iwi benefit and succeed. to increase as we move through this sign the Deed of Settlement at the marae. transitional period. Before the ratification Unfortunately, the marae is currently I have used the term ‘re-establishing’ to of the PSGE and the Agreement in being renovated so will be closed until describe what we are trying to achieve. Principle in 2018, the total registered early next year. This works well as it will That is because these relationships did membership was 2,419 children and give us plenty of time to plan the event exist at one time and have fallen out adults. This has grown significantly and and hopefully more of our uri will be able of existence over the last few decades. we now have a total membership of 2,932 to attend. We are now planning for this to This is a consequence of the Treaty of registered uri. This is a positive outcome take place in February 2021 Waitangi settlement process where iwi as it shows that we as an iwi continue to are required to differentiate themselves HOUSING grow in numbers and are attracting uri from their neighbours by claiming specific back to our base. During 2019 and 2020, Ngāti Maru rohe and mapping these which in turn acquired contracts to carry out excludes others. This is an antagonistic renovations and maintenance on houses practice that creates division and breaks in need of repair.