ISSUE 11 TIHEMA 2016 CONNECTING OUR IWI MEET MR MACKEY SELF-MADE NATI-PRENEUR BAILEY MACKEY GOES GLOBAL FOR GOD, FOR KING & FOR COUNTRY Whanau honour tipuna with pilgrimage to France NGATI POROU HAUORA BATTLING TO KEEP SERVICES ON THE COAST KO TOKU TAUMATA TONU, KO HAWAIKI New exhibition reflects artist’s personal journey “We are beautiful people and there are so many things that make us a unique iwi - our whakapapa, whenua and stories.” – Chevron Hassett, Ngati Porou artist Contents nati news nati biz 05 | YEAR IN REVIEW: 21 | MEET MR. MACKEY TRONPNUI REPORTS BACK TO THE IWI The illustrious career and global EDITOR ambitions of Nati-preneur, Bailey Jasmine Kaa Mackey. Highlights from the 2016 CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Te Runanganui o Ngati Porou Tina Ngata Annual Report. 25 | WORKING FROM HOME Chimene del la Varis Te Paea Dalton-Reedy 08 | FIVE YEARS ON: TIME TO The economic development projects of Hikurangi Enterprises. Rangituia Potaka REVIEW TRONPNUI’S Hikurangi Enterprises CONSTITUTIONAL Amohaere Houkamau DOCUMENT Rei Kohere Jasmine Kaa Basic facts about the Trust Deed ADVERTISING review process you need to know. nati story Trudy Lewis 09 | NGATI POROU HAUORA 31 | KA MAUMAHARA TONU DESIGN BATTLING TO KI A RATOU Sarah Gibson KEEP SERVICES PHOTOGRAPHY The Kohere whanau share their ON THE COAST Trudy Lewis story about their pilgrimage to A short fall in government funding France to honour their tipuna. has a major impact on the Iwi health provider. 11 | NGA HAPU O NGATI POROU TAKUTAIMOANA nati life HUI POSTPONED UNTIL JANUARY 37 | TE MATATINI 2017: EAST COAST REPRESENTS Ratification hui for amended Deed of Agreement to be held Kapa haka from Ngati Porou on next month. the way to Te Matatini. 13 | NGATI POROU SCHOLAR 41 | KO TOKU TAUMATA, KO ON THE COVER HONOURED WITH HAWAIKI Seasoned television producer, WORLD INDIGENOUS Bailey Mackey is our Nati Link AWARD The deeply personal journey of a cover star in this edition. Ngati Porou artist expressed in (Photo courtesy of NZ Herald) Respected Ngati Porou new exhibition. educationalist receives Honourary Doctorate. 45 | #STANDING ROCK Nati Link is a quarterly publication of Te Runanganui 15 | KAUPAPA NATI: NGATI A Nati stands in solidarity with o Ngati Porou. To subscribe, the First Nations people. comment or get in contact, POROU VS NGATI PARU email Jasmine Kaa: Ngati Porou environmentalist [email protected]. discusses the battle for the Waiapu. 18 | AMUA AO 2016 Ngati Porou East Coast secondary students head to Silicon Valley and Stanford University. 1 Nati Link Upcoming events Toitu Ngati Porou Open Community forum: 9 December FRIDAY 9TH DECEMBER 2PM–4PM HINEPARE MARAE, RANGITUKIA Ngati Porou Inter- Marae Sports Festival (aka Pa Wars): 3 January TUESDAY 3RD JANUARY 8.30AM–5PM TE WAHA O REREKOHU, TE ARAROA Hati Nati Maori Kai Festival: 4 February SATURDAY 4 FEBRUARY 9AM–3PM RUATORIA Poroporoaki Nolan Tariho Rimitiru Raihania 16th November 1926 – 22nd October 2016 Haere te morehu papa o Ngati Porou Haere te morehu o Te Rua Tekau ma Waru Haere te poupou o Te Runanga o Ngati Porou me Te Runanganui o Ngati Porou Takahia te ara whanui ki te rangi ki runga rawa ra he wairua koe nohou te ao katoa e Nolan e Te hokowhitu toa mauria atu ra Te pueru o koutou tipuna e Te mana me te wehi e Te mana me te wehi e Hei hoa ki tawhiti nui Ki tawhiti pamamao, Aue! Aue! Te aroha e ngau kino nei, Otira i tenei wa haere ra Ma te Kingi o nga Kingi koutou e manaaki e Ko te tangi tenei a te ngakau e nati news GROUP NEWS YEAR IN REVIEW: TRONPNUI REPORTS BACK TO THE IWI “Te Pakaritanga o te SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS FROM THIS YEAR’S ANNUAL REPORT whanau” (the strength base of whanau), NEW BOARD Better Help for Smokers to Quit and More Hearts and Diabetes Checks. is the kaupapa The newly elected board of Te Runanganui o Ngati Porou officially WHANAU ORANGA underpinning the began their new roles in December This year our social services arm, 2015, and set about the task of 2016 edition of Te Whanau Oranga, delivered more than confirming its main focus and Runanganui o Ngati twenty different programmes and priorities for its four-year term. The services to people and whanau within new board’s main focus was to create, Porou’s annual report. our communities. The services on and grow, annual financial surpluses offer were accessed by 3,800 people, from TRONPnui’s operation to apply to Supporting whanau development including 1,550 that received intensive Ngati Porou development. To do so it to achieve the collective aspirations support. set the clear expectation that, within of the Iwi lies at the heart of Te two years, TRONPnui would be living TOITU NGATI POROU Runanganui o Ngati Porou Group, within its annual income rather than and this year’s annual report reflects Toitu Ngati Porou completed the running deficits. Making immediate the broad range of activities con- third year of TRONPnui’s marae inroads has been challenging given ducted by the Runanganui and its development programme, paying the breadth and size of operation that subsidiaries (including Toitu Ngati out $0.7m in marae grants and TRONPnui has become. Porou, Ngati Porou Hauora and approving a further $0.2m. Toitu Ngati Ngati Porou Holding Company) to REDUCING COSTS Porou also finalised the long-term help achieve these aspirations. The revitalisation strategy for te reo ake o When the new Board took office annual report was released ahead of Ngati Porou, as well as an initial plan TRONPnui’s operating deficit for the Te Runanganui o Ngati Porou of action. the year stood at $700,000 and was Hui a Tau (Annual General Meet- forecast to reach $1m by the end of NGATI POROU HOLDING ing), which was held at Uepohatu June. Over the following seven months COMPANY LTD in Ruatoria on Saturday the 26th of the board and management kept its November. TRONPnui’s commercial subsidiary, deficit in check and, by 30 June 2016, Accompanying the annual report Ngati Porou Holding Company Ltd had clawed it back by ten percent. in a separate publication, are the full (NPHCL), managed the Group’s The parent and subsidiary boards led audited financial statements of Te commercial assets through a very by example by reducing costs and Runanganui o Ngati Porou Group testing year. At the end of 2015 global volunteering many extra hours to keep for the 2015/2016 period. markets were affected by a down-turn important projects moving forward. in the Chinese economy and, in June, NGATI POROU HAUORA the UK ‘Brexit’ sent share markets tumbling. ‘Brexit’ wiped out around While coping with its own significant $4m in our Group earnings but those financial stresses, Ngati Porou Hauora earnings were largely recovered when continued to provide GP services and markets rebounded in July. Without other primary health care to over the rebound a $0.4m profit was still 9,000 residents on the East Coast and achieved while the Group’s net assets in Gisborne. Over the last 18 months grew by $1m. The Year End result Ngati Porou Hauora’s quarterly was helped by the greater emphasis TE RUNANGANUI O NGATI POROU performance results have ranked in NPHCL’s own subsidiaries gave to Te Ripoata o te Tau 2016 TE RUNANGANUI O NGATI POROU the top 5 PHOs more often than any Full Financial Statements containing costs, lifting profitability 1 July 2015 – 30 June 2016 other PHO in the country, particularly and exploring new markets. for the Minister’s health targets for Nati Link 6 SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS FROM THIS YEAR’S ANNUAL REPORT Group financial performance Group financial position Group revenues of Group total assets of $30.9 million $223.5 million (down from $42.4 million in 2015) (down from $224.0 million in 2015) Surplus from commercial activities of Group equity of $6.5 million $201.3 million (down from $18.3 million in 2015) (up from $200.9 million in 2015) Group earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) of Group equity to total assets (ownership %) $1.4 million 90.1% (down from $13.3 million in 2015) (up from 89.7% in 2015) Group net profit of $0.5 million (down from $12.3 million in 2015) Group distributions Taurahere grants $20,000 Other grants & investments Marae wifi $96,000 Group distributions of: $27,000 $1.0 million Ngati Porou Rugby (down from $1.6 million in 2015) $27,000 Radio Ngati Porou $48,000 Ngati Porou events $62,000 To read the annual report and full financial statements, copies of the publication can be picked up from the Runanganui’s Gisborne and Ruatoria office sites, or downloaded from Marae grants www.ngatiporou.com/nati-news/nati- $0.7 million publications/te-ripoata-o-te-tau-2016- annual-report-2016 7 Nati Link GROUP NEWS FIVE YEARS ON: TIME TO REVIEW TRONPNUI’S CONSTITUTIONAL DOCUMENT In the September 2016 edition of Nati Link we announced the review of the Te Runanganui o Updated 2017 Ngati Porou (TRONPnui) Trust Deed. Since then, a Trust Deed Review review process schedule has been created, which Process Schedule (NB: this version slightly differs includes an invitation to Ngati Porou Iwi members from Trust Deed Review Terms to contribute submissions to the review committee. of Reference). Details about the consultation hui and submission January to May: Consultation with Ngati Porou & call for process are yet to be confirmed, however in the submissions. The Review meantime a set of FAQs has been compiled to help committee will hold hui within provide further clarity about this important kaupapa.