AWHI Magazine - Issue 13

ISSUE 13

ĀTIHAU-WHANGANUI INC. MAGAZINE

PIPIRI 2021

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Piki te Ora, Piki te Kaha, Piki te Māramatanga: a beautiful life TOITŪ TE MANA

TOITŪ TE WHENUA

TOITŪ TE TANGATA

Celebrating 50 years of Ātihau-Whanganui Incorporation

Wai Māori: Tangata Whenua unite

Strengthening the decision-making process

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Contents ISSUE 13 / 2021

ĀTIHAU-WHANGANUI INC. MAGAZINE

TOITŪ TE MANA 5 CELEBRATING 50 YEARS Acknowledging a milestone

6 SHAREHOLDERS CONNECT AT AGM Kōrero welcomed by Board.

FEATURE ARTICLE 10 PIKI TE ORA, PIKI TE KAHA, PIKI TE MĀRAMATANGA: A BEAUTIFUL LIFE Teacher, mother, leader - meet Aunty Piki

NGĀ PĀNUI 7 MAKING HISTORY: THE LITTLE FARM THAT COULD Ohorea Station is where it all began

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EDUCATION GRANTS Applications close 31 August (see page 31 for details).

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TOITŪ TE TANGATA 23 SCHOLARSHIP HELPS GUS TO FIND HIS PLACE IN THE WORLD Science isn’t just about how things work

30 STRENGTHENING THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS Specific skillsets sought in potential Board members

32 KEI WHEA KOE?’ UNCLAIMED DIVIDENDS LIST Updated list of unclaimed dividends

17 TE OREORE SLIP UPDATE Collective kaupapa to create solution

18 WAI MĀORI: TANGATA WHENUA UNITE A united voice crucial to freshwater rights

25 FOCUS ON A DREAM AND FAMILY Pandemic slows Olympic hopes

20 FOCUS ON BREEDING STOCK QUALITY KEY TO BOOSTING PRODUCTIVITY Visit Papahaua Station

28 MORE ON OFFER TO AWHIWHENUA RECRUITS Improving the learning experience

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Editor’s Pānui AWHI MAGAZINE Editor Mavis Mullins Deputy Editor Polly Catlin-Maybury Creative Director Quentin Bedwell Photography Quentin Bedwell Graphic Design Dave Pope

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Huri mai ki tātau Ngā waihotanga o rātau mā, Tēnā kautau, otinoa, tēnā tātau.

As we feel the last of the summer warmth fade into a mild autumn, Papatūānuku prepares to rest. We, too, need to consider the natural rhythms of the earth, and prepare ourselves to settle in for the coming winter months.

This means taking care of ourselves and our loved ones, keeping ourselves warm and healthy and continuing to take the precautions necessary to combat the global pandemic raging across the world.

Piki te ora, Piki te Kaha, Piki te Māramatanga: a beautiful life TOITŪ TE MANA

TOITŪ TE WHENUA

TOITŪ TE TANGATA

Celebrating 50 years of Ātihau-Whanganui Incorporation

Wai Māori: Tangata Whenua unite

Strengthening the decision-making process

Piki Waretini with her mokopuna Ngākura Ponga and Te Korou Koroirangi

CONTRIBUTORS Polly Catlin-Maybury Moana Ellis Amokura Panoho

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Tangihia ngā mate huhua Tērā te kapua pōuri e iri nei Nei rā te mōteatea mō kautau E moe, e okioki mai rā.

As a whanau business, that means we will continue to engage with our iwi entities to ensure we are ready to respond to whatever may come.

We have been very pleased with the feedback AWHI Magazine has been receiving from our shareholders, and that you find each issue interesting and informative, with its mix of articles that look at our history, our present and our future. We are always open to ideas for profiles or articles to keep information flowing, hopefully two ways.

Ko te koporeihana tēnei E mihi nei, e tangi nei.

E rere tonu ana te whakamānawa ki kautau i runga anō i ngā tini āhuatanga o te wā.

E kore e mimiti te puna o aroha.

Being able to engage with our shareholders at our AGM was not something we took for granted.

Be assured that your comments have been noted and we have been diligently working through what these mean, and how we can continue to improve and meet the expectations of you, our whanau.

We plan to report back to you at the next AGM. In closing, I would like to welcome Rawiri Tinirau and Che Wilson back onto the board and acknowledge those who step forward to be available for election. It can be a nerve-wracking experience, and we are grateful that people are prepared to bring their skills and expertise to sit around the governance table.

Ngā mihi mahana, enjoy.

Mavis Mullins Chair

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Celebrating 50 years of Ātihau-Whanganui Incorporation Lockdown restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic have delayed, but not deterred, the Ātihau-Whanganui Incorporation Board from honouring the 50th anniversary of the organisation.

“While the 50th year has been and gone, our desire as uri of the incorporation is to acknowledge this milestone in a manner befitting of shareholders and whānau,” says Board member Keria Ponga.

“Honouring the journey of our tūpuna who made the courageous decision to amalgamate their whenua for the sake of future generations cannot go unnoticed.”

The overarching theme of the events planned for coming months is one of celebration and connection between shareholders, uri, governance and kaimahi.

One of the highlights will be a gala dinner and ball, which will be held to coincide with iwi Puanga celebrations.

“Although initially we had planned to hold our gala ball in December in

2020, we felt that Puanga/Matariki was a much more meaningful time for people, and so we intend to have a wonderful evening of fun, celebration and acknowledgement in July. Watch out for more details!” says Whetu Moataane, Tikanga and Branding Manager.

Board members are planning to hit the highway with two roadshows to enable shareholders to meet their governance team face-to-face and have the opportunity to kōrero about the Incorporation, and its future.

A series of webinars designed to interact, update, highlight and explain the strategic direction the business is employing is also in development.

“We want to reach as many of our uri as possible and using digital media and social platforms to do

this makes sense, especially for those who live overseas,” says Keria.

“There will be the ability for people to feedback into these sessions too, as every shareholder voice is an important one.

A much-anticipated book launch that documents the historical journey of the Incorporation, telling its story across the generations, will take place at this year’s Annual General Meeting in December.

“While it is unfortunate that we couldn’t celebrate last year, our resilience and determination has seen us through many challenges,” says Keria. “Now we are acknowledging the road we have travelled, celebrating the milestone we have reached and looking forward the journey to come.

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Shareholders connect at AGM Robust kōrero between shareholders and Ātihau-Whanganui Incorporation governance and management teams at the Annual General Meeting was welcomed as a sign of engagement and connection.

“The Committee of Management always welcomes the opportunity to talk face to face with shareholders,” says Chair Mavis Mullins. “It is very important that they are able to have any concerns or observations heard and that we are able to respond.”

“The discussions at the AGM about the AWHI brand, business planning and financial report were all very valuable and show that people are engaged and interested in what we are doing. We take these points seriously and they have formed part of our internal reviews and revision of our ongoing strategy.”

The hui was held at Whanganui Racecourse with around 600 people attending – a real feat given a year of restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic response.

confirming our attention to on farm management and environmental impacts. This is in line with our kaupapa that Productivity and Tikanga should lead hand in hand.

Rawiri Tinirau and Che Wilson were re-elected to the Committee of Management.

Andrew Beijemen, CEO, reported that the Incorporation’s total revenue for the 2019/2020 financial year was $27.2m, a favourable increase on last year (FY18/19 $24.0m), with a net surplus (before finance cost and non-operating valuations) increased to $7.4m from the FY18/19 figure of $3.2m.

Shareholders were given a summary update of the year and Mavis was keen to recognise the manaatikanga shown across te ao Māori in response to the threat the global pandemic presented.

“It was good to be able to report a profit for the business after such a challenging year,” he says. “I want to acknowledge our kaimahi and management team who never disappoint in their ability to bring determination and dedication to their mahi, and the role they played in being able to post this result,” he says.

She also outlined some governance changes, saying; “We have implemented a Farm and Environment Sub-Committee,

Andrew also gave shareholders a brief overview of the current season, saying that managing the uncertainty the pandemic created in

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both domestic and overseas markets was a priority.

“We have taken a conservative approach to our budget forecast and spending intentions for the 21/22 season, and continue to monitor the situation closely,” he says. “We are facing challenges, such as a current over-supply in the honey market, but are working on building relationships and partnerships to manage the risk this presents to the business.

The Te Āti Hau Trust annual report was also presented at the AGM, with Trust Chair Shar Amner saying: “The Trust is guided by our principles of Mātauranga (education), Kotahitanga (unity of purpose), Manaakitanga (nurture and reciprocate), Whanaungatanga (collaboration), Rangatiratanga (leadership), Wairuatanga (spirituality), Mana Whenua (responsibility to the land and the people), Kaitiakitanga (active stewardship), Mana Tupuna (legitimacy) and Te Reo (identity) and the Board works hard to ensure they are at the core of all decisions we make.”

Making history: the little farm that could Just south of Raetihi, the twists and turns of the Parapara highway and the Mangawhero River cut through a parcel of ancestral land that has a monumental tale to tell.

In fact, a monument would not be out of place at Ohorea Station.

It would commemorate the extraordinary story of a 70-year battle to protect 101,000 acres of ancestral land and return it to the hands of tangata whenua – the story of Ātihau-Whanganui Incorporation.

The hill-country breeding farm runs 37,000 stock units on 5628ha of land about 12km southwest of Raetihi.

Three-quarters of the station is farmed, holding 17,000 ewes, 900 Angus cows and replacement stock,

with most of the progeny transferred for finishing elsewhere. The rest of the land, steep and unforgiving, is unfarmed – but well tramped toward the back by deer-hunter shareholders who draw ballots four times a year to fill their freezers on Incorporation hunting days.

Ohorea has been providing for shareholder whānau since the 1950s, when it became central to the drive to resume control of land vested in the Aotea District Māori Land Board and leased to farmers.

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resumed in a scheme painstakingly negotiated between Ātihau Whanganui tūpuna, the Māori Trustee, the Department of Māori Affairs, and European farmer lessees. The resumption was the first step in the vision to take back land that was originally vested in the Aotea District Māori Land Council following a meeting at Jerusalem in 1902 of landowners concerned about protecting what little land remained with Māori.

Blocks proposed at the meeting for vesting were Morikau 2, Whitianga 2, Waharangi 1, 2, 4, 5, Whakaihuwaka 1, 2, 3, Ohotu 1, 2, 3, 8, Ngārākauwhakarara, Puketōtara, Poutahi, Urewera, and Ngāpakihi. Between 1902 and 1904 about 106,353 acres of Māori land was vested in the five-man Council, which comprised three Māori and two Pākehā.

When the vested lands were offered for settlement, the Council immediately came under pressure from the Crown to change the lease terms to include perpetual right of renewal. Māori council members refused, but new lease terms were agreed in 1904, setting leases at 21 years with a right of renewal for a further 21 years, and, crucially, adding compensation to lessees for improvements.

Despite this, pressure for perpetual leases continued unabated, and led in 1906 to the Council being disbanded and replaced by an

“ They’re definitely breeding in there. I’ve seen two lots of young kiwis myself, and at the right time of the year, I go out and play a recording of a kiwi and hear them all call back.”

Rex Martin

Aotea District Māori Land Board comprising three Crown-appointed members, only one of whom was required to be Māori. These new legislated arrangements meant that more than 100,000 acres of Māori land were now held under radically different conditions to those under which the land had been vested.

In 1913, the Native Land Amendment Act scrapped specific Māori representation altogether by reconstituting the Boards to consist of two members: the Judge and Registrar of the district’s Native Land Court.

The methods used to set rents and the amounts Māori owners had to pay to compensate lessees added to Māori concerns, and by the time the

leases were due to expire, it seemed impossible that Māori owners would ever have the funds to pay out on improvements and resume their land. Following decades of petitions to the Crown, the issues became the focus of the Royal Commission into Vested Lands in 1951.

The Commission found that all legislation dealing with the vested lands intended that the lands should be returned to the Māori owners. It was especially critical of valuation methods and the way improvements were defined and assessed. Noting how owners’ equity and rental return had decreased, the Commission recognised that under the existing system the owners might never be able to afford to resume their land.

The Department of Māori Affairs stepped in, proposing that the Māori Trustee should advance finance for land resumptions.

In 1954, the Māori Trustee took over administration of 240 leases for the vested lands and was tasked to help the owners resume an area of land as a farm for Māori benefit. The Māori Trustee pledged £100,000 to finance the resumption of the Wright and Forsyth leases – 4000 acres in the largest vested

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Above left: Old School House, on Ohorea whenua. Above: Rex Martin, Ohorea farm manager. Above right: Lou Tapa, first Ātihau-Whanganui Incorporation farm manger. Bottom left: Old Farmhouse, Ohorea.

block, Ohotu 1C2. With more than 2000 owners, this was seen as a way of providing benefit to the largest possible proportion of vested landowners.

The station was given the name Ohorea – a local place name which Wright had already been using. The name had a good reputation with stock, mercantile and transport firms, and was a wool brand well known for its quality.

The plan for Ohorea was for the Māori Trustee to run the station until the owners repaid the finance advanced to resume the property, and for Ohorea farm profits to finance future resumptions. For 15 years, the Māori Trustee administered the leases, arranged land resumptions and managed farming operations on the resumed land, including sale of timber from the Forsyth block to help finance the deal. The Ohorea timber was also used to buy adjoining blocks to improve access.

In 1969, control was handed to a newly formed incorporation of more than 5000 owners – the ĀtihauWhanganui Incorporation – and Ohorea Station became its flagship farm, setting the standards for future

farming enterprises and the pace of further resumptions.

A resumption plan was formulated in 1973, prioritising properties in the Oruakukuru Valley area. In 1978, the Incorporation reported that two areas formerly leased by O’Neil and another property leased by Coleman were resumed, to be added to the Ohorea farming operation.

The farm’s first manager through the Māori Affairs/Māori Trustee administration was George Johns, formerly of the Morikau station.

In 1973, another Morikau farmer, Lou Tapa, took over, becoming the incorporation’s first farm manager.

“Ohorea was quite easy to farm in those days compared to Morikau,” Lou told AWHI Magazine last year.

“George had it pretty right. All the stock were looked after, all the paddocks were grazed. I got used to doing little jobs compared to Morikau, which was twice the size.”

Rex Martin manages the farm today. A major job in recent years has been fencing either side of the Mangawhero River and the Ararawa Stream. Replacing access to the water with troughs has also been a priority.

“The Mangawhero is virtually all fenced now, except for a couple of paddocks that aren’t fenceable, and about a third of the Ararawa.

There’s still a little bit to do over the next year or two,” Rex says.

The massive Oreore slip that

blocked the Parapara (SH4) about two years ago was on Ohorea.

Although the slip has stabilised and the highway has reopened, one 25ha paddock is still out of action, Rex says.

“There’s just nothing we can do with that one paddock.”

Not too many sheep and beef concerns host an on-farm wildlife reserve, but Ohorea Station is the proud kaitiaki of a kiwi sanctuary.

The habitat has been developed over the past five years or so after monitoring picked up quite a population of kiwi on 351ha of land retired many years ago under the Ngā Whenua Rāhui conservation scheme. Since then, a major pest eradication programme has swung into action to protect the kiwi, with hundreds of traps and bait stations set and checked monthly. Numbers of kiwi are growing, Rex says.

“They’re definitely breeding in there. I’ve seen two lots of young kiwis myself, and at the right time of the year, I go out and play a recording of a kiwi and hear them all call back.”

Information sourced from: Whanganui Leased Vested Lands c. 1951-2000 by Heather Bassett and Richard Kay, with additional information from Ātihau Whanganui Incorporation’s first Secretary, Lex Moodie, first farm manager, Lou Tapa, and Ohorea Station farm manager Rex Martin.

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Piki te Ora, Piki te Kaha, Piki te Māramatanga: a beautiful life Te mea tuatahi, me mihi atu ki te poari e whakahaere nei i o tātou whenua i raro i te Koporeihana Ātihau Whanganui, e pupuri nei te mana o tātou whenua.

Ka hoki ngā mahara ki muri ki o tātou pāhake nā rātou i whakaae kia tukuna mā rātou hei kimi e huarahi kia kore e ngaro o rātou whenua.

I pā mai te ture o tauiwi kia utua ngā reiti ka kore ka riro e te Kaunihera Pākehā.

Ka pōuri te ngākau o tēna o tēna nā te kore mahi, kore moni.

Kua ea ngā wawata, ngā moemoea kua kitea te ara tika hei whakahaere i o tātou whenua i tēnei rā.

Nā reira ka mihi tonu ki a koutou e te poari Matua.

– Piki Waretini

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‘Adopted to the river’ during the Great Depression, she spent years of her childhood in a TB ward, waitressed at Pipiriki House, raised 13 children and became part of a partnership that helped strengthen reo and tikanga among the river tribes. Moana Ellis talks to Piki Waretini.

The voice is thin, determined and full of aroha. This is where she wants the kōrero to start – with this song of mourning, written in the dark of te atapō by her tāne Te Otinga George Waretini in his final days. Sitting in her living room in Aramoho, she sings.

Ka tangi wheoro te hau waho Ka tangi momore te ngākau Pūtongatonga te ao Pūwatawata te ao Kua whatu ngarongaro Te tirohanga e Mā wai koe e tohu Mā wai koe e hua Te maunga e tū mai nei Te Awa Tupua e rere nei e “What it means is that our old people are no more amongst us,” Piki Waretini says. “What’s happening out there in the world today is not how it should be, and our people – they aren’t all well. Our old people are no longer there to help the generations of tomorrow.”

A child of the Great Depression, struggles such as these are nothing new for Piki. Her father was Te Tua Nepia, of Whakatōhea. Her mother was Huingapatu Stephens, of the river and Te Āti Awa. Born in 1934 at Parinui in the remote middle reaches – number 15 of 19 children – Piki was taken three days later by her mother’s parents, baptised as Rātana during the Māramatanga, and ‘adopted to the river’.

In all, her grandparents took three of the children, eventually giving Piki and her brother Sidney to a childless daughter, Rua. Married to Hēnare Keremeneta, Rua raised the children ‘in a little bach’ at Matahiwi Marae and later Pipiriki.

“During those times, our old people went from marae to marae to awhi one another. I belong to every hapū from the mountain to the sea, I can’t

separate them. I’ve got a bit of dirt everywhere,” says Piki.

“That’s how we were brought up.

We lived off the awa, and the awhi of one another. I had a beautiful life; the people were caring.”

“There were a lot of our people on the river until the Depression came and they had to go into the city to look for jobs and raise their families.

They had to come out of the awa to survive. Our people were under pressure from colonisation: we had to pay rates on our lands and our people didn’t have the pūtea.”

A rations van came from town during the war, trading sugar, tea and flour for coupons.

“That kai had to last. They treasured it. Some had farms, some had maara kai, their river and the bush. Each marae would help one

“ There were a lot of our people on the river until the Depression came and they had to go into the city to look for jobs and raise their families.”

Piki Waretini

The waiata tangi was written in 2013 just before George passed.

“I realised the essence of it, what he was talking about,” Piki says. “It was concern for his mokopuna. He was trying to guide them. He was saying: you look to your mountain and your awa because they’re part of you. These are the most important things in your lives – they are your wellbeing.”

“I know our people. Our families are struggling. They’re homeless, they’re in poverty and some are finding it hard to even survive.”

George Waretini the love of her life.

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Piki lived te ao Māori.

“ Our people were under pressure from colonisation: we had to pay rates on our lands and our people didn’t have the pūtea.”

Piki Waretini

another, from the upper river to the bottom. That’s what I saw in my childhood. I was brought up in sugar and flour bags, those were our bloomers. I knew how our people struggled.”

One of Piki’s earliest memories, aged four, is of Rua teaching her Kōrerorero, a waiata now often sung by her daughter Rihi.

At 11, she fell ill with rheumatic fever and then tuberculosis. Rua

brought her to Whanganui hospital, where she spent the rest of her childhood in semi-isolation. Her name changed during this time, from Piki Kahukiwi to Piki Te Ora, Piki Te Kaha and Piki Te Māramatanga, a reflection of her tenacity and also the Rātana faith that was part of life for many Māori patients. She fondly remembers the eldest Māori patients, and her daughter-in-law’s father John Waitai, who would visit to pray with her.

Above: Nanny Piki having a laugh with mokopuna Ngākura Ponga and Te Korou Koroirangi.

Left: George and Piki celebrating Matariki with mokopuna.

Next Page: Aunty Piki sharing her stories.

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“The Rātana faith was very strong – Mōrehu were great prayer warriors.

At that time, there wasn’t any cure for TB and they had separate baches (isolation huts) at McKenny Ward.

We were like aliens; the nurses were all completely covered,” she recalls.

“ I’m a good provider, I make things – it was instilled in me. We were taught to survive. We preserved everything – kaanga wai, piharau, kōura, kākahi. Those are lost to our awa today.”

Schooled at McKenny Ward, Piki remained in the unit for four-and-ahalf years until a cure was found.

them. Miro, karaka, pikopiko. They went hunting, tahu the meat and preserve it in fat in kerosene tins.”

“My mother wanted me to go to Turakina (Māori Girls’ College). I cried and begged her not to send me because I had been locked away for so many years. I pleaded with her to allow me to go nursing. Most of us who went through what we did, the first thing that came to mind was to go nursing,” she says.

“Geese, chickens, ducks, pork ... they made candles and lamps from rendering the fat. We weren’t poor for kai Māori, everything was there for our old people. It was the next generation – the likes of me – who came into town with our children.

That’s where the hardship came,” she says.

But she was only 16, a year too young, so she briefly took a waitressing job at Pipiriki House, a stop for Whanganui River’s famous paddle steamer and still a tourist mecca. As soon as she could, she signed up for nurse aiding at McKenny Ward, Gonville Sanitorium and Ōtaki Health Camp. At 21, she was asked by Rua to return to Pipiriki to help care for her grandmother, Nanny Tiori.

In the kitchen, the table is set for a cup of tea. Not just a plate of biscuits, though – there are a dozen dishes... sweets and savoury, seafood, salads... set out carefully by one of Piki’s daughters. At the sink, a moko (of which there are ‘about 200’) is cleaning some gifted snapper heads.

During this time, she met and married Temo Ponga, a gardener at Pipiriki House. They had 13 children together and raised three whāngai, living first at Matahiwi before moving to Whanganui for work. She rousied in the shearing sheds, where her mother cooked while minding Piki’s latest baby. To help make ends meet, Piki used skills learnt during her early childhood.

“I’m a good provider, I make things – it was instilled in me. We were taught to survive. We preserved everything – kaanga wai, piharau, kōura, kākahi. Those are lost to our awa today. Kererū – our old people would only get two or three and eat them straight away. But they dried eels and īnanga and put them away in a muslin bag in the pātaka. They laid down ferns and put potatoes on 14

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Piki Waretini

The shelves are heavy with preserves and pickles, home-made spaghetti in tomato sauce and even karaka berries, prepared exactly the way her mother Rua taught her.

“You boil it for five or six hours, then put it in water like kaanga pirau, and preserve it with sugar – turns it into peanut,” she says.

Daughter-in-law Keria Ponga says that, according to Piki’s offspring, she is the best maker, bar none, of fried bread, toroī and mīti tahu boil-up.

“She would knit her children’s jerseys, crotchet their blankets and with her green fingers she can stick a dead plant into hard ground and make it grow,” Keria says.

In her 30s, Piki and Temo parted ways. Some time later she met the love of her life, George Waretini.

Her life changed: everything she did now was with George. “They were inseparable, and it is hard to speak of one without the other,” Keria says.

George, a master carver, brought Piki back to te ao Māori and together they became involved in the Māramatanga, wānanga, poi poi and Hui Aranga. Life with him was based around community service.

They composed waiata, mōteatea, haka and poi for St Vincent’s Māori Club, helped rejuvenate Te Ao Hou Marae, were part of the national Toi Māori body Ngā Puna Waihanga, and taught Te Ataarangi.

“I was brought up with the language at Pipiriki, and even though I was denied it in my schooling, I was still able to hold onto it,” Piki says.

“The language was slowly being lost.

George and I knew the reo. Not only

“ She would knit her children’s jerseys, crotchet their blankets and with her green fingers she can stick a dead plant into hard ground and make it grow.”

Keria Ponga

that, but he was a carver and I was a weaver, brought up around my mum and my kuia who were weavers.

So even though I had a big family, George and I were able to walk together with these kaupapa.”

In the 80s and 90s, she taught at Mangawhero Te Kōhanga Reo, now known as Te Rangahāua.

During this time, Maungārongo Marae in Ohakune commissioned George to carve the meeting house and Piki to complete the tukutuku panels for Tikaraina. They lived at Maungarongo while carrying out this work and were among the original ‘roadies’, or support crew, of the first Tira Hoe Waka, later completing the Whanganui river journey themselves in a motorised

dingy captained by George.

In the late 90s and into the new millennium, the couple became patrons of the Te Rangakura teacher programme at Rangahāua in Whanganui, and joined the National Māori Choir led by Morvin and Kura Simon. They supported the Whanganui River claims and the Pākaitore occupation, were involved with the Whanganui Regional Museum and the Sarjeant Gallery, and, together with the Simons, were appointed kaumātua for the landmark Te Awa Tupua exhibition at Te Papa.

Piki and George both received Kingi Ihaka Awards from Creative New Zealand in recognition of their leadership and service to

“ I was brought up in sugar and flour bags, those were our bloomers. I knew how our people struggled.”

Piki Waretini

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Māori Arts. Piki was also awarded the Tohu Whakapakari from the National Te Kōhanga Reo Trust and has spent more than 40 years supporting the movement.

An Ātihau-Whanganui Incorporation shareholder, her mihi to the incorporation is one of gratitude for the leadership and vision to save the land, support education, and provide for the people.

“We wouldn’t have these gains today without our leaders of those days.

Today, they’re training young people and I have seen scholars come out of there, including my mokopuna.

They’re not only looking after the generations, they also awhi the world... sending Angus beef, honey and lamb overseas; it’s all come off our whenua.”

Her advice to those managing collectively held assets is: “Do the right thing for the future of the generations ahead of you. Don’t think of tomorrow but think of the generations to come.”

For today’s descendants, her message of hope is to look to the past.

“Our old people had their own way of surviving. They had their own doctors, tohunga, they knew rongoā, they healed themselves. They knew when to plant because they read nature, they read the world. There are things that you can be part of, like keeping your rivers clean, taking care of the taiao, so that this will come back to us.”

Renowned rongoā Māori practitioner Rob McGowan credits her mother Rua as being his teacher.

“It was only when tauiwi came that our old people, they weren’t there any more. They weren’t there in the bush or [beside] the river to teach the next generation,” he says.

“Some of our generations have forgotten to be who we are. If only they would look to the generations past, perhaps there might be a better future for tomorrow.”

“ Do the right thing for the future of the generations ahead of you. Don’t think of tomorrow but think of the generations to come.”

Left to right: Te Rangitautahi Ponga, Te Korou Koroirangi, Mere Kemp, Keria Ponga, Nanny Piki, Ngākura Ponga, Cedric Nepia.

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Te Oreore Slip Update

After a major slip at Te Oreore closed the essential road link between Whanganui and Raehiti, Ātihau-Whanganui Incorporation and local iwi have been working closely with Te Waka Kotahi to get SH4 accessible again.

Building a new highway requires a number of factors to be taken into consideration including the protection of existing landscape features, local awa, how local property owners may be affected, the need to purchase whenua, protecting indigenous plants and animals, and traffic safety.

it is an important transit route for our people and our business. With Ngāi Tuhiariki, Ngāti Rangi, Ngāti Uenuku, Ngā Tāngata Tiaki sitting alongside the incorporation we were able to look at the issues related to the geology, geography and accessibility through a cultural and tikanga lens.”

“We needed to ensure that we are creating a solution that we won’t have to revisit in fifteen years’ time,” says Mavis Mullins, Chair of the Incorporation Board.

Fellow Ātihau-Whanganui Inc Board member Che Wilson agreed, saying, “Te Oreore literally means shifting ground, so it has historically been known to be moving. The area also has a significant maunga, Tuhi Ariki, and an important food source, Mangawero Awa in the vicinity. So, coming together to contribute our local knowledge as ahi kā into the

“It was great to have everyone in the same room alongside Te Waka Kotahi (NZTA), understanding the regulatory requirements from one end of the road to the other, as

cultural impact assessment allows us to infuse our Māori values into their regulatory planning processes.”

Christine Rawiri, representative for Ngāi Tuhiariki, appreciated the degree to which Whetū Moataane, Ātihau-Whanganui Inc Tikanga and Branding Manager, included iwi in meetings with He Waka Kotahi and their engineers.

“Our whānau have been actively involved in providing feedback, as many still live down the Parapara where the slip was,” she says.

“I think there has been real benefit in how the iwi have worked together on this collective kaupapa.”

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Wai Māori: Tangata whenua unite on approach to water rights Tangata whenua of the Whanganui River catchment are laying the groundwork for recognition of freshwater rights ahead of long-awaited Government action to address the issue.

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“ We decided to hui together and show that we carry a kaupapa for wai Māori, because you can’t just turn up as councils or iwi leadership groups and talk to the Crown: you must carry it with the people.”

Gerrard Albert

Leaders of hapū, iwi and Māori entities have been working together to put a stake in the ground before the Government moves to work through Māori water rights and interests, including allocation.

A national hui on freshwater rights was called earlier this year by the Freshwater Iwi Leaders Group of the National Iwi Chairs Forum, after the Government signaled its intention to address aspects of Māori water rights in 2021.

Gerrard Albert, co-chair of the Freshwater Iwi Leaders Group, says the hui in Whanganui called on hapū, iwi and other Māori entities to contribute to a national discussion and work toward a collective position on wai Māori, particularly around resource management reforms.

“Anticipating that the Government’s view of our rights in freshwater will fall short of what we know them to be, we wanted to affirm the breadth of our rights in wai Māori,” he said.

A ‘consolidated and central view of what wai Māori is to us’ was therefore the aim before Government moved to address freshwater rights and interests. This would guard against any assumption that Māori rights could be determined solely by Government.

“Only we can determine what our rights in freshwater are and how these are to be addressed.”

Representative bodies, including the New Zealand Māori Council, the Federation of Māori Authorities and Government freshwater advisory group Te Kāhui Wai

Māori, attended the January hui, but Gerrard – who also chairs Ngā Tāngata Tiaki o Whanganui Trust – said hapū and iwi voices were critical.

“The Government wants to address our rights as hapū and iwi in freshwater but, rather than talking with hapū and iwi, it likes to deal with Māori bodies that represent a general Māori viewpoint and identity. We need to show that it is a bigger picture,” he emphasised.

“Hapū and iwi leadership have had to say we’re distinct from this ‘Māori collective’ that the Crown talks about. There is good leadership within those groups, but actually each one is distinct, hapū and iwi are distinct, and what we collaborate on is a common focus on securing a better place for our freshwater rights to be recognised.”

“We decided to hui together and show that we carry a kaupapa for wai Māori, because you can’t just turn up as councils or iwi leadership groups and talk to the Crown: you must carry it with the people.”

A series of regional hui will be held to gather more views. In Whanganui, a regional hui was called in early May (May 4) for iwi, hapū and whānau in South Taranaki, Whanganui, Rangitīkei and Ruapehu. The hui was to provide an update from the Freshwater Iwi Leaders Group technical team on resource management and water reforms.

“The hui are part of a decadeslong movement to recognise Māori freshwater rights,” Gerrard said.

“I remember in 1993 attending a hui in Taumarunui around Māori freshwater rights. The Government had just ushered in the Resource Management Act in 1991 and of course we were being shut out again. Those efforts have been ongoing – what we are doing now is part of that whole movement to ensure that our rights to speak for our waters are generated from our own view, from our own kawa, from our own tikanga and from our own worldview, rather than what the Resource Management Act or the Government of the day says.”

“Our relationship with wai Māori comes from our whakapapa. We continue to exist and the Crown can’t ever capture that – they must at every turn provide for it.” Ātihau Whanganui Incorporation chair Mavis Mullins, who attended the national hui, said Trusts and Incorporations had for generations taken on a kaitiaki role but were now standing alongside settlement groups and hapū and iwi voices.

“We all have to be in the same waka with this. The view of hapū or iwi might be different from [the perspective of ] a marae by the river, or from a whanau, or from a land block, but we have to talk to each other a lot more than we have in the past. If we’re not careful we can end up in a position where we’re at loggerheads with each other and we cannot let that happen.”

“It feels to me as if this is going to be the conversation of the decade, certainly of the year. A united voice is going to be critical.”

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Focus on breeding stock quality key to boosting productivity

Improving the quality of breeding stock on one of ĀtihauWhanganui Incorporation’s original hill stations will help boost the production bottom line.

Papahaua Station is a breeding station that 6315ha of steep to rolling hill country, where 9500 pedigree Perindale ewes and around 500 Angus beef cattle are managed on 2600ha of effective land. >>

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Papahaua Station is a breeding station that 6315ha of steep to rolling hill country, where 9500 pedigree Perindale ewes and around 500 Angus beef cattle are managed on 2600ha of effective land.

It is situated on the Matahiwi Track in the Waimarino district near Raetihi and is one of the more challenging farms in the organisation’s farming portfolio.

“The fact that there can be huge distances between grazing blocks due to the terrain is just one of the considerations that have to be taken into account when planning the management of this farm,” says Siwan Shaw, AWHI Business Manager. “The need to be proactive when it comes to animal health and the impact the lie of the land has on workloads are also factors that are taken into consideration.”

Justin Booth, Papahaua Station manager, leads a team of three shepherds, one general hand and a second-year Awhiwhenua cadet to manage the property.

Justin was himself a shepherd on the station before leaving to gain experience elsewhere. He took on the manager’s role around two years ago.

“Perindale sheep are used at Papahaua, as opposed to the Romney breed found on other Ātihau-Whanganui Inc stations, as they are ‘good doers’ on hard pastures, and are bred to cope with the physical challenges of the hill country, which also makes them easier to muster.” Siwan says.

The station was part of a benchmarking exercise carried out at the end of last year with assistance of a $125k grant from Te Puni Kōkiri.

The money came from the Whenua Māori Fund, which is an initiative to help Māori landowners identify and assess opportunities for boosting productivity.

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Above: Perindale ewes unique to Papahaua Station.

Previous page: Justin Booth, farm manager at Papahaua Station.

“The project helped us identify that there were changes that could be made to improve productivity at Papahaua Station,” says Andrew Beijeman, AWHI CEO. “The main focus is on ensuring the breeding stock are the best they can be, which will translate into increased scan rates and more robust offspring to send off to our finishing farms when they are weaned.

“Preferential feeding and more regular monitoring to measure parameters such as growth rates, body condition and overall general health will help to increase farm productivity, which is good news for the overall profitability of the business.”

Infrastructure work, such as

eight kilometres of fencing put in over the last three years and the creation of new dams to address the ongoing issue of very dry summers, contributes to the improvement of the bottom line too.

“The team are doing a great job of taking the benchmarking information and identifying where changes can be made to deliver the results we are looking for,” says Andrew.

“ The need to be proactive when it comes to animal health and the impact the lie of the land has on workloads are also factors that are taken into consideration.”

Siwan Shaw

Scholarship helps Gus to find his place in the world If a young Gus Brooks wanted a trip to the movies or some other treat, his teacher father would set him a challenging maths problem to solve.

“We had a whiteboard and he would sit me and my older brother down and write up some equation or other we had to get right to earn our treat,” laughs Gus. “It’s something I still do with my father now, solve problems on a whiteboard, but it has to be said they are somewhat harder these days!”

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Gus, who received the Te Āti Hau Trust’s PhD Scholarship, is just a few months off completing his doctorate at the world-leading Robinson Research Institute at Victoria University of Wellington.

He has been studying ‘superconductors’ and identifying how they can be used in groundbreaking new technologies and provide solutions for industries worldwide.

“The scholarship has given me the freedom to be able to focus fully on my thesis and my work – a privilege I don’t take lightly – so I am very grateful,” says Gus. “I really want to encourage other young Māori to apply to the Trust so they can access the financial support available to them while they are chasing their aspirations. It makes such a difference.”

Gus says he was encouraged by his father to apply to the Trust for a study grant.

“My father is a Te Ātihau-Whanganui Incorporation shareholder and our family has always been very proud of our Māori heritage,” he says. “My bedtime songs were all in te reo and Saturdays were all about getting together with the extended whānau for a game of rugby and some kai.”

The family can trace back five generations to Gus’s great-greatgreat-grandfather, an English soldier who married Ruhi Pakihiwi.

The family whakapapa to Koriniti Marae. Gus’s mother is Ripora Erena Loose.

“When I was younger, my Māori culture was something I just took for granted, but I attended my first Ātihau-Whanganui Incorporation AGM last year and it opened my eyes a bit to everything they do,” says Gus. “I knew quite a few people there too, so I am definitely keen to connect a bit more with the organisation.”

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Above (left to right): Dr Rod Badcock, Gus Brooks, and his father Kit Brooks at the Ātihau-Whanganui Inc AGM.

“ The scholarship has given me the freedom to be able to focus fully on my thesis and my work, a privilege I don’t take lightly so I am very grateful.”

Gus Brooks

while – but found he wasn’t quite ready to spend all his time in research lab quite yet, so took off in search of adventure in the mines of Australia amongst other places.

“I needed a bit of time to think about what I wanted to do,” he explained. “I still wasn’t really sure when I got to the end of my Bachelor’s degree at Victoria, but some friends were doing some work at the Institute and I went to help move some equipment around.”

“I got talking to one of the researchers, who has since become my supervisor, and he suggested I completed an Honours project there, which I did.”

“Then they offered me the opportunity to do my PhD, which I grabbed and just a few weeks later was on a plane to the UK to do a three-month collaboration at Cambridge University.”

“There is a perception that science is all about the physical world and how things work, but it isn’t – it helps you to understand who you are, what you value and to find your place in the world. I love it.”

“Supporting our young people to reach their full potential is something the Trust is very pleased to do,” says Shar Amner, chair of the Te Āti Hau Trust. “Investing in people like Gus means we are investing in the future for all Māori.”

Below: Gus Brooks with Te Āti Hau Trusts Chair, Shar Amner.

Paddling a different waka to success

For years Te Āti Hau Trust has supported young Tui Wikohika as he progressed through the ranks to become the country’s latest snowboarding champion for his age group.

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Tui’s constant absence away from his whānau was starting to affect his passion and drive for the sport.

Billeted to families who had the money to live by the Cardrona ski fields close to Wanaka to support their children’s snowboarding helped Tui appreciate what it cost his parents to let him go and be independent.

“ I guess because he knows what it takes to be an elite athlete he gets quite cut up when people don’t go to training, so he is focused on bringing that discipline to his team.”

Lauren Whikohika

The COVID-19 pandemic may have diminished the dream for the 16 year old to attend the 2022 Olympics by hampering his preparation and ranking, but his parents, Lauren and Peter, explain the youngster may have found a new direction for his competitive spirit.

“Snowboarding is a very expensive sport,” explains Peter Wikohika.

“Tui has been the New Zealand champion for his age-group for the last two years, and to progress from there means moving into the international competition scene in order to get a world ranking.”

“The recent COVID-19 situation has really thrown a big spanner in the works for us, because of all of the uncertainty, the quarantine requirements, and associated costs.”

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get home as our country went into lockdown. He was only supposed to be home for four weeks before flying back for another month and a half to participate in the training camps and competitions. But we decided to cancel that trip,” says Lauren.

“To qualify to be eligible for the Olympics he needs to be competing in Europe and the USA. And while that was Tui’s dream, recently he told us he wanted to focus on doing his NCEA Level 2s. It seemed like it was good time for him to do that – to put snowboarding on hold a bit, while nothing is happening internationally.”

“So now he is working hard on his education and being physically present at Ruapehu College, given that he had to do online learning while he was travelling and boarding.”

As the second eldest of five children,

“They were wonderful people, but I think not having time with his siblings and us, that whanaungatanga of being part of his community in Raetihi, I think that he saw that as a sacrifice too.

Tui does understand as a result how participating in an elite sport does come down to having money.

That’s why he is so determined to be successful when he competes: to demonstrate his appreciation for what everyone has done to help him,” says Lauren.

Both Tui’s maternal grandmother, Ann Paul, and his father Peter are shareholders in Ātihau Whanganui Incorporation, and the support provided from the Trust was a critical part of enabling Tui to travel between his hometown and the South Island ski fields.

“It gave him the ability to be home with us but then to travel to training camps and competitions. Given the elite nature of the sport it was a significant contribution to his success,” says Peter.

He acknowledges that his son is really a quiet humble teenager and doesn’t like the limelight.

“You wouldn’t even know he is a New Zealand champion. He is only happy to post things on social media if he knows that it is to acknowledge his sponsors and supporters that have helped him get to his competitions. But when it is

time to do the business, he is very competitive and focused, and has always had that approach in every sport he participates in.”

team, crew and coaches has really exposed him to his culture, to te ao Māori.”

Lauren says Tui is learning through waka ama, a very different sport, that the high expectations he sets for himself as an individual are not always echoed in other team members.

“I guess because he knows what it takes to be an elite athlete he gets quite cut up when people don’t go to training, so he is focused on bringing that discipline to his team.”

Lauren and Peter want Tui to love what he does even if it means he moves onto to another sporting discipline.

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More on offer to Awhiwhenua recruits The Awhiwhenua cadetship scheme is broadening its scope in order to offer more to young Māori who aspire to working on the whenua.

An internal review of the programme identified several areas where Ātihau-Whanganui Incorporation could provide more learning experiences and so make the residential education course more attractive to potential students.

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review and make sure our offering was fit for purpose,” explains Whetu Moataane, AWHI Tikanga and Brand Manager.

“Industry expectations have changed slightly, and we have seen huge growth in certain areas, such as apiary. Previously the programme offered just sheep and beef, but we are now going to add

dairy and beekeeping to the mix so participants gain more from their learning.”

The course, which earns cadets a Level 3 New Zealand National Vocational Certificate in Agriculture, will also see more emphasis put on the practical side of farming.

“Although theory is important,

“ Although theory is important, of course, we have found that the students need more exposure to the practical skills any farm worker needs.”

Siwan Shaw

Above: Whaea Olive teaches cadets the essential life skills of cooking, cleaning and caring for themselves and their surroundings.

Left: Cadet Raymond Paranihi-Richards working on the whenua.

of course, we have found that the students need more exposure to the practical skills any farm worker needs,” explains Siwan Shaw, AWHI Business Manager. “Brendon Craw, a shepherd at Te Pā, will also be the in-house practical tutor. Brendon brings real knowledge of the course kaupapa, being a cadet on a training farm himself previously.

“We are also pleased that Jim Doolan, who has been the farm manager at Te Pā for nearly a year now, is very positive about the programme and keen to add value wherever he can.”

There are also plans to extend the course to three years, and potentially offer apprenticeships instead of cadetships.

“Feedback we received from former cadets told us that two years wasn’t quite long enough to cover all the subjects needed for the qualification in depth,” says Whetu. “Offering apprenticeships means that we would be able to pay young people and get them on the career ladder sooner.

essential life skills, such as cooking, washing clothes, keeping yourself and your surroundings clean and tidy, is as important to us and our values as the farming side of things,” says Whetu. “So that part of Awhiwhenua will remain the same.”

The review also found that declining numbers of cadets could be attributed to the lack of recruitment, something Whetu and Siwan are looking to address.

“Previously we have relied on word of mouth through our shareholders and their whānau to identify young people who might benefit from the programme,” says Whetu. “But this

approach has not always resulted in cadets who have a real passion for farming so we are looking at changing the criteria a little to make it more purposeful.”

“We will, of course, be prioritising uri when it comes to allocating spaces, but we may open the application process up to other Māori too.”

“The review has been a valuable piece of work that means we will continue to be able to run Awhiwhenua in accordance with the tikanga that have been there right from the beginning.”

Below: Jim Doolan (Te Pā farm manager) and Brendan Craw (practical tutor) offer real knowledge of farming practices. Cadet Ben Waiwai drenching sheep.

The pastoral side of the ĀtihauWhanganui Inc offering will not change as it is an essential part of the tikanga of the programme.

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Strengthening the decision-making process The committee of management is a group of highly skilled members. However, not all knowledge is captured within this group. For this reason, there is this strategy to seek out people with knowledge and experience in areas that strengthen the decision making.

“All our associates, past and present, have provided significant contributions. In turn, we have become more aware of the expertise that would further assist us in other areas,” says Chair Mavis Mullins.

Candidates wishing to join the Ātihau-Whanganui Incorporation governance team will need to offer specific skills and knowledge to strengthen the decision-making process.

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group of highly skilled members, but we have identified areas where we need more input.

“In order to function as a business, we have the responsibility to understand and comply with a wide range of legislation, whether it be Te Ture Whenua Māori Land Act, the Companies Act or the Financial Securities Act (to name just a few).

Even within our farming activities there is the Health & Safety in the Workplace Act, Environmental Protection Act, the Biosecurity Act and Employment Law that guide and direct our actions and activities. It is so much more than just farming.”

While the incorporation is supported by experts who bring their skills and experience to the farm and environment committee, audit and risk committee, hunting committee and Te Āti Hau Trust in the shape of independent directors, the associate director scheme is another avenue via which needed skills can be brought to the table.

“All our associates, past and present, have provided significant contributions. In turn, we have become more aware of the expertise that would further assist us,” says Mavis.

The Associate Director scheme has been in place now since 2014. This programme was launched initially to give up-and-coming future leaders the opportunity to gain experience of the nuts and bolts of governance in a safe whānau environment.

It has proved to be very successful,

with candidates not only gaining invaluable experience of the governance process, but also bringing their own perspectives, providing a different viewpoint or the benefit of specific skills or knowledge.

“Examples of sought-after skills and experiences might include agritechnology, value chain and logistics management, and product to market, or maybe a greater understanding of the link between mātauranga and agri-science.”

“We have had some outstanding Associate, and Independent Directors over the years, and we want to ensure that we make the most of what the programme can deliver for them and the organisation,” says Mavis.

While Associate Directors do not have a vote, it is expected that they will contribute fully to the debate and discussion leading to decisions.

“To do this we intend to be specific about the skills and knowledge not currently held within the current board members and highlight these when we call for applications.

“We also want to be clear pre-AGM what those skill gaps might be so whānau can provide their input and help identify the best-placed people to take on the role.

Mavis adds; “We know there are whānau doing and achieving great things, and the associate directorship programme has historically enabled us to help them in their leadership journey. This year we will be looking for those whānau who can help our business to continue its journey towards toitū te mana, toitū te whenua, toitū te tangata in a more focused and targeted way.”

Te Āti Hau Trust Education Grants Closing Tuesday 31 August A reminder that our third intake for grant & scholarship applications are open.

Please contact the office on: 06 348 7213 or grants@atihau.com if you need help in submitting your application.

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‘Kei whea koe?’

Unclaimed Dividends List Do you or your whānau know any of the people on the list below?

If you have any information, please contact Charmaine at the office as follows:

Each of them holds more than $1,000 worth of unclaimed dividends and Ātihau-Whanganui Incorporation would love to reconnect with them.

Email: office@atihau.com Mail: PO Box 4035, Whanganui 4541 Call: 06 348 7213 between 8.30am and 4pm weekdays For the full list use the QR code or go to: https://www.atihau.com/our-whanau

Last Name

First Name

Sh ID

Last Name

First Name

Akapita

Celia Te Huia

14483

Byrne

Caroline Margaret

Akapita

Celia Te Huia

17700

Cash

Hoani William

19216

Albert Patricia

12196

Church (Decd)

Lisa Marie Te Riina

18462

Albert (Decd)

John

10375

Churchward Frank

Albert Estate

Miriama

4114

Clarke Kamiria 11577

Allen (Decd)

Shirley

4713

Clifton

Wilfred (Bill)

18439

Amohu

Rayleen Theresa

19760

Condon Estate

Meki

11902

12580

Conlon

Rakei Hikuroa

Anderson Sally

2811

3205

7046

Andrews

Rawinia Jacqueline

7279

Cooper Estate

Wenerau Rukuwai

Apiata

Penelope Jennifer

6176

Corkran

Korina Francis

16414

Ariiti Taiwhare 12628

Donald Estate

Roy

12557

Armstrong Raina

4389

Edmonds

Koromatua Bishop

11679

Ashford Errol

11175

Edmonds Wahinekino 12899

Ashford

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Judith Dawn

10479

8288

Edwards

Ani Tatara

Ashford Isaac

17305

Edwards

Robert Mohi

5558

Ashford

Charles Gabriel

19807

Eruera Moti

12009

Attrill

Graham Leslie

19935

Forrest

Patricia Mary

19806

Attrill

Alex Maia Ngarimu

19937

Gestro Estate

Maurice William

5753

Attrill

Nigel Waldron

4612

19938

Gilbert

Thomas Patrick

4892

Baker Na

3929

Gilbert

Kay Elby

3458

Beard

7042

Gilbert

Delphina Puteruha

2841

Beazley-Waara Raema

6728

Golf Harold 17312

Bennett (Decd)

Albert Tamumu

3648

Gray Elizabeth 2869

Bennett Estate

Alfred Augustus

Dorothy May

8627

Gray Heeney 4460

Bentley Kahutaiki 3386

Gray Miriama 9600

Bevan

Richard Kawana

21713

Gray Leslie

Bevan

Matthew James

5128

21714

Gray (Decd)

Ngahau Lorna

3955

Bevan Jane

21715

Gray Estate

Moffat

9538

Bevan

21716

Gray Estate

Wiremu

5235

Biel Makuini 2922

Gray Estate

John

4803

Borlace

Pauline Ngahuia

6741

Green Estate

William Himiona

10658

Brooks (Decd)

Patricia Ruth

16419

Grey Estate

John Hira

11374

Brown (Decd)

Kahu Ariki

4480

Gully

Merania Whango

9535

Bublitz

Riana Eileen

8382

Haami

Rangi Sylvester

3829

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Andrew T

Last Name

First Name

Haami

Dominic Te Mareikura

Haddon Whanau Trust Charles

Sh ID 5039 17690

Haira

Rangi Hinepua

5551

Hamilton

Ashley Clarence

17710

Hamilton Lester

17705

Hamilton

Tony Ellis

17707

Hamilton

Mark Ngapo

18180

Harris

Ngawai Motete

12093

Haunui Puhinga Hawkins

Dianna Eunice

Hekenui Whanau Trust Paora Herewini Kevin

12310 11112 20616 3895

Himaki

Rihara Tamaikumu

12491

Hiraka

Joseph Tataipo

15523

Hodgson

Pauline Kotahi

3516

Hokena Ranginui

12410

Hooper

Douglas Stanley

3430

Hopkins

Carl Richard

2808

Horomona Kurupai

3542

Houra Whanau Trust

18267

Huna Estate

Taita

10221

Hunter

Annastaisia Wikahi

Hurley

Daniel Francis

21230

Jackson

Patricia Elwyn

18395

Jury

John Riwai

Kanui Estate

Mereana

11930

Kaporeihana

Te Ngore

9716

Karauria

Ruanui Wharepouri

8960

7057

4125

Karipa Danny

12599

Kauae Mere

11914

Kaukau Murray

5858

Kelly Jackie David Metekingi William

21652

Kelly Mary

19650

Kerei (Decd)

Teri

4876

Kerei Estate

Atamira

2754

Kereopa (Decd)

Rachel Reirei Rewi

20787

Kereru Tauri

12687

Keruini Paetaha

12144

King Percy

4239

Kingi

5301

Tyrone Reo Irirangi

Kingi Kahu

11554

Kireona Tukotahi

12817

Kireona Hera

11314

Kirikau Francis

7257

Kirikau Hatu

7258

Kirikau Rangi

7259

Kirikau Mangi

7260

Kirikau Pereki

7261

Kiriona Estate

Kewetone

Kirk Faye Konui (Decd)

Papa

11645 2928 12167

Last Name Konui Whanau Trust

First Name Hone and Mereana Te Pau

Kumeroa Nekitini

Sh ID 18992 12025

Kurukaanga Whanau Trust

8079

Leerhoff

Marie Daisy

9457

Lemon (Decd)

Ani Raukawa

5690

Love

Moewai

6443

Maaka

Iwa Hoani

11477

Maaka

Inuawai Hoani

11464

Maaka

Anitia Hoani

10975

Maaka

Pito Hoani

12287

Maaka

Pikitia Hoani

12262

Macdonald

Thomas Glencoe

14745

Macdonald

Erina Tangiwai

16464

Machin

Annie

9265

Manga

Mere

11916

Manukonga

James

7886

Manunui

Deane

8293

Manunui

Dennis Watene

8299

Manunui

Desmond

8295

Manunui

David

8296

Manunui

Albert Gene

3688

Maranui

Thomas Arthur

18745

Mare Estate

Pare Horohanga

4158

Mare Estate

Pare Horohanga

4159

Mareikura Estate

Rena

4539

Mareikura Estate

Te Mamaeroa

6359

Marsh

Thomas

Martin-Mason

Rosina

Marumaru

Tarikura Julie

14403 4668 20710

Marumaru

Tahutahu Potiki

12613

Matataiaha Estate

Ruamatera

12562

McCarthy

Ellen Isabel

2872

McDonnell

Ellen Raukura

2873

McDonnell

Bevan Ross

2799

McDonogh

Patrick Colin

11544

McGregor

Patricia Aloma

18435

McGregor Estate

Maude

McInroe

Kenneth

McMullan

John Nicholas

McSweeney

Fachtna Michael

Melvin

Rana Phyllis

17555

Menehira

Shane Rawhiti

18994

Menehira

Phillip Nikora

6941

Menehira

Tamatea Tom

10243

Mere

Ngaurupa

12089

Mere

Matakaurihau

11847

Mere

Waewae

12870

Meretawhe

Rohana

12531

Meri

Peeti

4217

Metekingi

Hohipera

3183

TOITŪ TE TANGATA

2713 14416 5846 5878

33

Last Name

First Name

Sh ID

Last Name

Mildwater Judy

17634

Rahira Teori

Miriama

Mihi Teira

11950

Rangiao Tutahanga

Moka Estate

Martha May

3697

Ranginui

First Name

John Bartholomew

Sh ID 12712 5013 18918

Moke Rauhina 21109

Ranginui Mirita

Mosen

Oswald John

6734

Ranginui

Mosen

Larry Graham

6738

Rangitauru Hinemata

11351

Rangiuia

11446

Motu Paul Murray John

12204

Te Huinga

9608 18919

Rania Rania

12423

Nepia Paetaha 12145

Ransfield

Gloria

11173

Nepia Matiu

Ransfield

Pine Te Mawae

4303

Neustroski

Keith Henry

3326

Edward Crombie

11882 7348

Ransfield Estate

Hemi Matiaha

5043

Ngahuia Koha

11662

Rauhina Estate

Epedemic Mangumangu

11161

Ngakati Miriama

11970

Raureti

Pani TeMihinoa

7932

Ngakuru Meretini

11937

Rawhiti

Donald Teaomutungakore

Ngapera Ruhi

12565

Rehu Rawinia 12443

Nicholson Moana

8875

Reid Victoria 7737

Nock Moira

9624

Reihana Waaka

Oates Whanau Trust

Betty

18013

Reihana

Ngapera Isobel

Owens Paetaha Estate

Gwendoline May

2957

Renata

Beverley Pauline Mere

Hinerau

8997

Reone Marino

10689

12865 5580 8120 11820

Pakatua Koroneho 11681

Rerekura Whanau Trust Riini Rangi Kauruora

16417

Pakeha Estate

Rerekura Whanau Trust Michael and Veronica

16487

Mere

3832

Paki Micheal 17851

Reti Ngauira 12086

Paora Petera

Reuben Estate

Huiarei

3239

Rikihana

Patrick

16523

12244

Paraone Estate

Edward Albert

2862

Parata Estate

Leo

11708

Riley Whanau Trust

18751

Park Estate

Rakera Marie

4400

Riwaru Tihema

12742

Parker

Julia Edith Karaihi

10109

Roach Daphne

2832

Patu Leslie

6473

Roach Henry

Patuwairua Ngawai

4031

Roach No 2 Estate

Paul

Joy Aroha

Peeti

Anthony Terei

John

18906 3334

20063

Robertson Herbert

3053

5692

Rogers Fleur

12330 13450

Pekamu Manu

11785

Ronginui Estate

Pene Kahui

11559

Geoffrey

Rongonui Maia

13456

Pihama Hemanawa 6801

Rori Rori

12553

Pikimaui Phillippa

10631

Rota

James George

18033

Piripi

James Tukatahi

8034

Rowe

Esther Majorie

13252

Piripi Estate

Tapuae

4814

Ruke Tommy

4957

Piritene Mere

11922

Ryan

Karewai Huna

Pohio One

12128

Samuels Estate

Henry

Potaka

17959

Scanlon

Bernard Charles

Potaka Matiu

11883

Schicker

Patricia Kaye

Potaka Maata

11736

Simmonds Raymond

5199

Potaka Michael

11946

3020

Erin Cornell

9271 12846 2868 5133

Skelton

Helen May

Potaka Elizabeth 11146

Smith

Sarah Tuera

5010

Poutahi Estate

Arama

2725

Smith

Mark Karihi

18111

Poutahi Estate

Miriata

3882

Soloman Estate

Shirley Kuraroa

11698

3845

Stevens Estate

Tira Cecilia

13453

Stoupe

Hepetema Eru

Pratt Mihi Preston

Leah Ria Te Hau Koraki

Pukehika

Hori John

19906 5088

Stringer Waipurukamu 5085

Puohotaua

Patrick TeTahuri

8121

Stubbing

Quinn Lorraine 15626

34

TOITŪ TE TANGATA

Francis Bernard

Sullivan James

3338 5726 5953

Last Name

First Name

Sh ID

Last Name

First Name

Taha

Mere Hori

11912

TeTana Hami

Sh ID 11255

Tahana Harata

4398

Tete Reimana 12464

Tahana

Te Rakei Hiko

8418

TeTua Kaewa

11548

Tahau

Beatrice Valma

2788

TeUrutahi Puti

12327

Tahuparae (Decd)

Pumipi Rangi

4355

TeWaati

Taiaroa Estate

Taitema

Taiaroa(Decd)

Miles Medley

12625 6275

Peggy Miriama

TeWaati Mutu TeWhatu Aida

Taipo Rio

12500

Tewhatu

Dave Rewi

Taipua Estate

Tira Kahurangi

11416

TeWhiti Estate

Tuhi

Taitumu

Edward Huiatahi

10356

Trow Estate

Malcolm Allan

Taiwhati Ria

6197

Takarangi

Terei Hoani Kataka

Takarangi (Decd)

James Wilson

12718 3299

Takarangi Estate

Pani

6290

Tamaka Estate

Urutahi

5047

Tamehana Tamara

12647

Tamehana Estate

Rapera

12425

Tamou Whanau Trust

Mangu and Tirita

17237

Tangaroa

Te Naera

10551

Tanoa Martin

3701

Tanoa Estate

Rangi

4419

Tapa

Vaughan Charles Aquinas

21629

Taputoro

Martin Jnr

7113

Taputoro (Decd)

Stephen Charles

7116

Taurua

Gilbert James

21349

Taurua

Mae Tauwera

4679

Taurua

Marita Anne

21350

Te Ara

Hera

11316

Te Huia

Matthew

11435

Te Huna

Richard

10212

Te Huna

Andre Phillipe

20234

Te Hura

Tuturi

12843

Te Moti-Teka

Rex Fitzgerald

19762

Te Patu Whanau Trust

19744

Te Pohe Whanau Trust Anthony & Jackie

20781

Te Taipu Estate

Pukeke

Te Ture Whanau Trust Queenie Hoera Te Weehi

9939 20558

Claudine

3567

Te Whareoneone (Decd) Hinekura

3091

Te Whareoneone (Decd) Peata

9832

TeAngina

Rangi Guy

12384

TeAngina

Mischima Uru

11975

TeAngina Estate

William Uru

12983

TeAwheto Retihia

12478

TeHuia Harold

5941

TeHuia Luanna

4881

TeHuna Estate

Pomare

4327

Teki

Wahi Marama

5979

TeMoa(Decd) Kahuoterangi

11564

Teo Hira

11379

TeParau Rauaia

12430

TeRueke Wiri

13010

5051 12015 5687 17897 4973 21028

Tuaine (Piripi) Whanau Lester Trust

8512

Tuaolii Estate

Losi

9587

Tuhoro

Anne Marama

3660

Tuka

Heta Hastings

4829

Tuka

John Charles

5739

Tuka Frank

2852

Tunga Estate

4166

Pollyanne

Turanga Alice

11433

Turner Carlene

17632

Tutauha Estate

Bella Ngarataki

Tuwairua Jean Tyson

Elaan Desiree

Waetford

Albert Victor

Wairau

Tracey Ani

Waitere Taituha Walker Wiki

4000 3837 18377 2670 10990 12626 4913

Wallace

Te Tohe Victor

10352

Walton

Ann Marie

Waretini

Panico Frances

14345

Waretini Estate

Tahana Campbell

13682

5942

Whanau Trust Thomas Turama Althea Harata

21549

Whanau Trust

Buck Albert

21546

Whanau Trust

Ruiha Takarangi

21247

Wharemate Pou

12303

Whetu

Mark Anthony

13332

Whetu

Tony Tohungia

12911

Whitcombe-Taiwhati Virginia

5718

Wihongi Thomas

6632

WiKeepa Rawinia

4507

Williams

Harriet Lorna

Williams

Benjamin Tukotahi

Williams Estate

Alfred Francis

11677

Wills

Rangi Marehua

21108

Wilson

Pine Takarangi

10682

Wilson Theresa Wineti

Faye Nathena Justine

19338 6178

9826 19899

Winterburn Alfred

17893

Wire Erana

11167

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