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pono MarikaTe Rūnanga-Ā-Iwi-O-Ngāpuhi Magazine Issue 34 2012

Noelene’s Magic Netball Season: Time to Reflect

• Noelene Summarises the Magic’s Season

• We Ask: Is the Grass Greener in Oz?

• World Unicycle Champs Welcomed Home

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CONTENTS Pono Marika 2012

For contributions to Ae Marika or any queries email [email protected] phone 0800 NGAPUHI (0800 6427844)

The opinions expressed in Ae Marika are not necessarily those of Te Rūnanga-Ā-Iwi-O-NgāpuhiOur website address: www.ngapuhi.iwi.nz

3 Heroes Welcome for Unicycle Champions4 Disability Equipment Given to Tauwhara Marae5 Ngawha Marae Report6 The Olympic Spirit Hits Tautoro School7 Joanne Kiro: New Programme Leader8-9 Is the Grass Greener in Oz?10-11 Netball Coach’s Magic Season12 Manawhenua Trophy Winner and Hokianga Kapa Haka Fundraiser13 Kick Boxing’s Janna Vaughan14 Photo Gallery15 Tūhoronuku Media Statement

Contents

A haka party awaits unicycle champions Sam LaHood, Christian Huriwai and Samuel Tzikoucos in Kaikohe. See story page 3.

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TUHORONUKUISSUE 34 GENERAL NEWS

Heroes Welcome for World Champs

Some of the kids from Kaikohe East School roll out the welcome mat for their heroes.

Kaikohe went unicycle crazy mid August when the town welcomed home their local unicycle heroes, including 2012 World Street Unicycle champ Christian Huriwai.Over 750 people lined Kaikohe’s main street to welcome home Christian, 13-year-old Samuel Tzikoucos of Kaikohe who placed third in the junior division, and 16-year-old Sam La Hood of Dargaville who won the women’s title at the world championship in Italy during July.Children from seven schools in the mid North held up masks of their heroes and made flags and banners congratulating the trio.Helping the kids in school to ride more and trying to raise the profile of unicycling in New Zealand are some of the future aspirations for Ngāpuhi’s Christian Huriwai. At the welcome home ceremony and celebration in Kaikohe Christian said: “It’s cool, it’s great, real good seeing the kids again.” Local kaumatua Wati Erueti acknowledged the achievements of Christian and his fellow unicyclists Samuel Tzikoucos and Sam Lahood. “It’s a hero’s welcome for our three,” he said.

Among the guest speakers at a ceremony to celebrate the trio’s success were Kaikohe-Hokianga Community Board Chairman Win Stephens and Northland MP Mike Sabin. Win Stephens said: “The sky is the limit and only you can stop yourselves from achieving these limits.” He then thanked their mums and dads “because without them we wouldn’t have champs.”Mike Sabin said: “Maybe we should lobby the Olympic Committee to make unicycling an Olympic sport?”Christian was awarded a certificate for his positive promotion of Kaikohe Districts, Northland and New Zealand. He thanked Te Hau Ora O Kaikohe, Te Rūnanga-Ā-Iwi-O-Ngāpuhi, the kids and their parents. He told the tamariki “to keep going , to strive. You just need to keep trying.”When speaking about what he wants to do next, Christian said he wants to start a brand, to train for the next European and American Championships, and to try run some national unicycle events and competitions.Christian and Samuel received funding assistance through the Rūnanga’s Discretionary Fund. Details are available on our website: www.ngapuhi.iwi.nz

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Marae Chairman Arvind Solomon

TAUWHARA MARAE Pono Marika 2012

Disability Equipment Donated to MaraeDisability equipment including wheel chairs, frame walkers, crutches, moon boots, walking sticks and two scooters were kindly donated to Tauwhara Marae by the Auckland City Mission.

Marae Chairman Arvind Solomon said thanks to the actions of Gary Larkan of Frontline Church in Kerikeri and the free freightage provided by Peter Baker Transport, who freighted the gear to Tauwhara.The equipment came from Auckland City Mission, the largest health and social services provider in Auckland city, who were clearing their warehouse. Gary said the gear could benefit Northlanders and steps were made to bring it North. Word of mouth contact was made with Tauwhara Marae and the equipment was delivered. Arvind said some of the equipment has already been utilised in the local community and that it is free and available to kaumatua, kuia and those whånau in need. For more information contact Te Rau Allen: [email protected]

More of the equipment available to whānau.

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Youth ProgrammeThe Tu Tama Tane, Tu Tama Wahine programme is starting at the end of the month (August). The first part of our hui will be a planning session where collectively we’ll pull together all their moemoea - hopes, dreams and aspirations - of our young people who whakapapa to Ngawha Marae. Things like whakapapa, where their whenua is, cemetery walks and maunga walks, are some of things we’d like to take our young people on. But they may have other ideas and we need to plan for those things.Once we’ve collated those ideas we can plan forward and look at ways of making the plan come to life. Marae trustees, as well as kaumatua and kuia will be there to see firsthand the planning process so they can put one together for themselves at a later date.There’s lots of things like tikanga that fall out of hui like this, so that’s why we’ve invited our kaumatua and kuia to be present as well.

Marae RefurbishmentsOne of the long term projects for the marae is refurbishment. At the moment the marae trustees have sourced funds for the Ngawha Marae Building Project to rebuild/renovate Ngawha Marae to a functional and operational state. This project includes upgrade of existing ablution

block, extension to existing Whare Tupuna of an office, mattress room, renovations to the existing Whare Tupuna. All buildings will meet the needs for disability access requirements and Health and Safety Standards. The project is categorised below in the 3 stages:• Stage 1: Upgrade of existing ablution block • Stage 2: Extension works of new office, new

mattress room, covered walkways and ramps between Whare Tupuna, mattress room, office and ablution blocks.

• Stage 3: Whare Tupuna restoration. The marae has served us well for a number of years, but it’s now time to upgrade.

Pathway Plan - Strategic PlanningAs eluded to in our korero about the youth, we need to do some long term planning for the marae.This will take place over the coming months in order to lock in some of these ideas, as well as holding hui with our wider whanau, to see what their moemoea are for our marae.Here at home we have our plans, but it’s time to reconnect our wider whanau who aren’t living here, as well as get those living close to the marae actively involved.

By Anahira Pumipi

Ngawha Marae Moving Ahead

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OLYMPICS DAY Pono Marika 2012

All the tradition of the Olympics came to Tautoro School near Kaikohe recently where every four years it holds its own games event to commemorate the occasion.This year was no different and the school’s principal Jane Lindsay said their Olympics fun day was an event the whole family could enjoy.“It was excellent,” she said. “The kids were into it and were Olympic champions for the day.”The school’s Olympics day had all the tradition, glitz and glamour of the four-yearly event with an opening parade, speeches, lighting their very own Olympics torch and raising of the flags. Local personality Laurie Byers, a bronze medalist for road cycling at the 1962 British Empire and 1966 Commonwealth games, was on hand to help.Jane said the students were divided into houses with points awarded for friendship, excellence and respect.At the conclusion of the games there was an award ceremony.“This was a good way to reinforce the values of the Olympics rather than having just the champions of sport,” said Jane.“Everybody was a winner.”

Olympics Celebrated at Tautoro

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Waka racers get set to go at the Tautoro School Olympics.

The medals ceremony at the Tautoro School Olympics.

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ISSUE 34 NEWS

An early childhood programme aimed at responding to the culture of the community it operates within is being rolled out by Ngāphi Iwi Social Services.As part of the Ministry of Education’s Early Childhood Education Participation Programme, the Identity Language Culture and Community Engagement (ILCCE) plan is being offered up in the mid North.ILCCE aligns with the Ministry’s Maori Education Strategy - Ka Hikitia. Its aim is to raise the responsiveness of services to the culture of the communities that they operate within.Local girl Joanne Kiro (Ngāti Mahia, Ngāpuhi) who has a background in preschool education, was appointed as the ILCCE coordinator for Kaikohe. The recent Tamariki Big Day Out in Kaikohe for the under 5s was organised by Joanne. The event highlighted the importance of early childhood education and development.“I look forward to networking, seeking advice and any idea’s from the community and service providers to help uplift the early childhood education services for our tamariki and whanau.“It take’s a whole community to educate, manaaki and keep our tamariki, whanau safe and well,” she said

Programme Responds to CommunityJoanne Kiro.

The recent Tamariki Day that Joanne organised.

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FEATURE Pono Marika 2012

Is the Grass Greener in Oz?With all the talk about Australian mining jobs being the panacea for Kiwis looking for fortune, Pono Marika talks to, 28-year-old Chanelle Stillwell, a Trades Assistant, working for Rio Tinto, a mining company extracting iron ore in the Western Australian desert that is exported to China.Chanelle’s new, temporary, home (she’s keen to emphasise) is Paraburdoo, located in the Shire of Ashburton, 18 hours North of Perth. Population: 2,000 mainly miners or their families.Paraburdoo was built in 1970 to accommodate miners and has sporting facilities that cater for most sports, as well as a supermarket, bottleshop, pharmacy, hairdressers, youth centre, day care centre and, occasionally, the drive-in movie.The town also has a police station, flying doctor, school, medical centre, veterinarian, airport and a couple of churches.Not bad for a little plot out in what would seem the middle of nowhere.Chanelle’s first memories of Paraburdoo were of being overwhelmed.“The first time I arrived in Paraburdoo, I remember flying over and seeing a big red hole in the ground.”The Kaikohe lass has been working for Rio Tinto for just over a year. She’s a Trades Assistant which means changing conveyor belts and pulleys, rebuilding crushers... basically if it breaks down, she fixes it.She didn’t start out looking to work in mines. In fact far from it. She studied fitness training and professional coaching at Auckland University for two years when she left school.

She finished studying, backpacked around the country for a couple of years picking up odd jobs like seasonal picking. Came home to Kaikohe for a little while and then decided there was more out there for her.Fortunately a cousin suggested to Chanelle to look at mining. So she spent a year getting licences to drive trucks and heavy machinery and armed with her very different qualifications, headed to Australia and the Western desert where she’s been ever since working on a mining project.It’s a move she doesn’t regret.“It’s amazing because the amount of money you get over there; to compare it here, you’d have to be a doctor or a lawyer,” said Chanelle.The nagging question that bears an answer is: is the grass really greener on the other side?“For me it is, “ she said. “Job roles attract housing [the company owns most of the houses] and it’s $120 per month rental . Plus the power and water is subsidised. “It’s a win-win all the time, but you have to put up with the heat and isolation. I can do that for five years. It’s nothing really. Home’s always going to be home and I can nip back just like that.”However Chanelle reckons it’s not for everyone. She’s seen whānau wrecked by the long work hours. And then there’s the snakes.“I’m not into catching snakes. I just think this is there whenua and we should leave them alone.”The office workers have also told her how the snakes get inside slipping between the weather boards on the exterior cladding and when she comes across one, she leaves it up to her more experienced colleagues

to deal with.Likewise there’s lizards - really, really, big lizards called Goannas. Chanelle said the smaller ones are 1m long, but she’s seem some up to 2m.She said regardless, she always look forward to coming home - the greenery, hunting, fishing and whānau time with the family.

Chanelle Stillwell: Australia’s not for everyone, but she stays focused on her goals.

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“It’s just red dirt [Paraburdoo] because nothing grows. It’s also really hot. In the winter it’s 30; summer gets up to 50. You acclimatise ‘cause all your work’s outside. Cool down inside the truck if you’ve been out or there’s hydration stations. You also learn to keep your electrolytes and salts up”Chanelle said while there are some mining sites offering lucrative contracts with the promise of flying in and out regularly, there are not many doing that at Paraburdoo. She’s not too concerned. She reckons she’s on a good wicket in Paraburdoo and has made good friends and whānau who make it palatable.Chanelle spends her leisure time playing sports or working voluntarily for the local fire bridgade.She said there’s nowhere to spend her money - another bonus of the job - and she enjoys the friendly inter tribal rivalry and Kiwi-Aussie jabs. “There’s that friendly tribal rivalry - it’s all healthy and we’re proud and stick together.”When she comes home she tells all her whānau the virtues of working on a mining project, but is mindful it’s not for everyone.“It’s wicked. Come and have a turn. It’s not for everyone... there’s so much more to life than Kaikohe. But some aren’t interested. Kaikohe fulfills them,” said Chanelle.

• Accordingtothe2006AustralianPopulationCensus,therewere349,000NewZealandbornpeopleresidentinAustralia,whichwasequivalentto12%oftheNewZealandbornpopulationresidentinNewZealand.Outofthistotal,249,000wereworking.

• OfthethreelargestindustriesemployingNewZealandersinAustralia,thehighestrelativeshareofNewZealandersworkedinAustralia'sminingindustry.

• NewZealandersaccountedfor5.3%oftheAustralianworkforce,andaveryhigh62.9%ofallNewZealandersworkinginminingacrossAustralasia.ItistheonlyindustryinwhichthenumberofNewZealandbornworkinginAustraliaexceededthenumberofNewZealandbornworkingathome(4,478versus2,643).

• Miningaccountedfor8%ofAustralia'sGDP[22]andwasbeginningtomoveintoasustainedperiodofgrowthin2006.Afeatureofminingisthatmostemploymentisinremote,sparselypopulatedareaswellremovedfrommainurbancentres.

• PetroleumandmineralextractionanddevelopmentisseenasoneofthefiveNewZealandprioritysectorsforattractinganddevelopingskillsandboostingproductivity.

• ThereispotentiallyalargepoolofpeoplewithrelevantskillswhocouldbeattractedbacktoNewZealandundertherightconditions.

• Miningcontainssomehighlyskilledandspecialisedroles,likegeologists,butalsohasmanyopportunitiesforpeoplewithmorelimitedskills.

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Pono Marika 2012FEATURE

A Magic Season for Coach Noelene

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Life has been surreal for Waikato-Bay of Plenty Magic netball coach Noelene Taura since her side took out the 2012 ANZ championship in July.On the day we talk to her, Noelene is parked in the carpark at Pak n Save talking to Pono Marika via mobile phone, and a random gentleman pulls up in the carpark next to her and is prostrate on the ground in front of her car in reverence of the Magic coach.For Noelene, it underscores the impact winning the Trans-Tasman netball competition has had throughout the franchise’s region.“It’s been huge for our franchise, but also netball in general.”So long the bridesmaid, the Magic’s turnaround in fortunes surprised everyone. Four straight losses at the start of the campaign had the team under pressure for the remainder of the competition, where it went on to win an unprecedented 13 games in a row.But Noelene said the bad start was symptomatic of a huge culture shift going on within the team and what it did was accelerate the team’s development and growth.“The Magic are reknown for the team culture, and we’re one of the strongest franchises at retaining our players.“But at the end of the day being nice wasn’t winning games so we had the opportunity to bring in a performance culture that turned out to be a winning culture.”What that meant for Noelene was making some hard

calls. Like benching star shooter Irene Van Dyke in game two against the Mystics.“I’ve never done that, but she wasn’t performing,” said Noelene. “But when you’re looking at the statistics of people that aren’t performing it sometimes nullifies the team culture.”Noelene talks a lot about the changing culture of the star-studded Magic lineup during the interview and singles it out as one reason the team had fallen behind at the start of the ANZ championship because her players were adjusting to new routines, patterns and habits.“It’s big because it flips what we normally did on its head and what we’re renowned for, and it took us 6-7 weeks to find where that balance was within our culture and how it worked,” she said.“[Losing] helped define that [culture] and it forced us to live the words we’d written on paper and what we said we were going to do and there was no way out.”The Magic’s coach said the defining moment for her came in the round 3 loss to the New South Wales Swifts. She’d seen enough in that game from the players she had on the court to determine they would be the mainstay of the 2012 campaign.Even though they lost their next game to their eventual opponents in the final, the Melbourne Vixens, she was resolute about her starting seven.“They provided me with enough substance to say this is the line up I’m going with and we just kept going.”Noelene doesn’t know what her next steps are going to be. Post season reviews are currently taking place

The Waikato-Bay of Plenty Magic erupt after getting their hands on the ANZ netball trophy as the 2012 winners. Photos courtesy of Mark McKeown, McKeown Photography.

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and while the Magic coach freely admits to riding the crest of winning the ANZ championship, she’s unsure what her short and mid term goals are.First, she has national duties as Assistant Coach of the Silver Ferns, a job she takes immense pride in. But knows she needs to make some hard decisions about her future shortly.As both a player and coach, Noelene has benefited from time with some of the biggest names in New Zealand netball. Players like Waimarama Taumaunu, the current national coach and a formidable defender for the Silver Ferns. But also the honors list includes Leigh Gibbs, Yvonne Willering and Lois Muir to name a few.She was a late bloomer to the game. Preferring athletics to netball in her junior years and playing netball simply to fill in the time.Talent was not an issue for a young Noelene. Training was.“I was one of those kids with a lot of talent, but was mangere [lazy]. I didn’t want to do anything and relied heavily on my talent.”What swung all that around was being five months pregnant, laid up in bed with plaster cast from her ankle to the top of her thigh because of an ACL knee injury a the age of 24.Although she’d been playing serious netball for a couple of years with the top club side, Wellington-based PIC that included the likes of Rita Fatialofa, Margaret Matenga and Waimarama Taumaunu, she’d never pushed on to the next level. Her time on the

sidelines changed all that.As she matured as a player, she also learn’t about pressure and expectation - qualities that prepared her for her current role.“If you didn’t do what you were supposed to it was very harsh and you’d get a ball thrown at your head. But you also knew when you did well.”Growing up elevated Noelene to the national side as a goal attack in 1975. The pinnacle being part of a gold medal winning performance at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur.It’s in the North where the Magic coach’s roots are. The daughter of prominent kaumatua Kingi Taurua of Ngāti Rehia and Ngāti Kawa from Oromahoe, and her mum is Ngāti Whatua from Dargaville.However she grew up in Paremoremo village where her dad was a prison guard. Moved to Taupo for intermediate and high school, and then did the big overseas jaunt at the end of college before coming back to New Zealand at the age of 21 and moving back in with the parents who by this time were living in Wellington.At 44 and with five kids, Noelene is not sure what the next five years will bring.“It’s a big question I’m asking myself right now that will provide me with direction for what I do in the immediate future,” she said.“There’s nothing better than the buzz you get from training and playing under pressure and I don’t know whether I can find that anywhere else.”

The Waikato-Bay of Plenty Magic erupt after getting their hands on the ANZ netball trophy as the 2012 winners. Photos courtesy of Mark McKeown, McKeown Photography.

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Pono Marika 2012NEWS

Kaikohe East Takes Out Mana Whenua TrophyKaikohe East School’s Garden Club are the winners of the 2012 Te Mana Whenua Challenge trophy.The competition run by Taitokerau Organic Poducers Incorporated Society (TOPIS) encourages taitamariki to work on the whenua to provide for their whanau. “It encompasses many principles of our tupuna that are relevant today,” said TOPIS member Geneva Proctor. During the trophy presentation Geneva said to the children, “you’re looking after Papatuanuku. For us Papatuanuku is very, very special.” The school recently celebrated the opening of their Matariki garden and last year were awarded a Tui School Garden Challenge prize for their Maara Ora programme.Last year’s recipient Ashton Tairua presents the Te Mana Whenua Trophy to pupils from Kaikohe East School.

Hokianga Rōpu Fundraises for Matatini

Hokianga, Hatea and Te Rōpu o Muriwhenua are the three senior kapa haka groups representing Taitokerau at next year’s Te Matatini Nationals in Rotorua.Hokianga recently performed at Rawene to fundraise for the competition. Kaitiaki Jasmine Martin said all members of the kapa haka team whakapapa directly to Hokianga. “More whānau are returning home. The coming together of both North and South Hokianga has been one of the many positive outcomes of the newly formed rōpu”, she said. The rōpu practice regularly in and around the Hokianga area. Te Matatini’s kaupapa to foster, develop and protect kapa haka in the pursuit of excellence reflects the Hokianga team’s goal to make the Māori performing art a lifestyle.

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“When fighting taller opponents my game plan is to be fast and smart - that’s the key to winning fights,’ said Janna Vaughan. The Kapotai, Ngāti Hine and Ngāpuhi girl is the current New Zealand Muay Thai Kickboxing title holder for her weight division and has been selected to represent New Zealand at the World Kickboxing Championships in Russia from September 5-14.Janna has a Bachelor of Physical Education and works in health promotion “inspiring people to live healthy lifestyles.” She plays touch, squash and rugby at NPC level. As a teenager kickboxing for Janna was a good way to channel her anger. “When I contained my anger it turned into determination, then into passion, then into titles. Through Muay Thai Kickboxing I learned about discipline and respect for others”. Whānau and friends from Moerewa and surrounding areas recently gathered together for a Russian themed evening to celebrate Janna’s success and to fundraise for her trip. Locals Ned Peita and Laurie Anderson said Janna has put a huge amount of effort to get herself into the top level of her sport and that they are truly proud of her. Janna received funding assistance through the Rūnanga’s Discretionary Fund. Details are available on our website: www.ngapuhi.iwi.nz

Janna puts on a demonstration at the fundraiser for her in Moerewa. Her dad Mike is holding the pads.

Fighting Faster and Smarter

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Pono Marika 2012PHOTO GALLERY

We are always on the lookout for new contributors and writers. If you would like to contribute email us at [email protected].

Chanelle Stillwell (kneeling on the right) at Rio Tinto. Story on page 8.

See story about the Hokianga rōpū going to Matatini on page 12.

Disability equipment available to whānau. See the story on page 4.

Kaikohe goes unicycle crazy. Story page 3.

Waikato-Bay of Plenty Magic netball team. Story page 10.

World Unicycle Champ 2012, Christian Huriwai. See page 3.

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A Statement by Rāniera (Sonny) TauInterim Chair, Te Rōpū o Tūhoronuku

The Northern Advocate front page lead article "Morgan eyes huge revamp" (13 August 2012) is based on a first draft proposal by Crown facilitator Mr Tukoroirangi Morgan, a draft which has been largely rejected by Ngāpuhi.If the Northern Advocate had contacted us, we would clearly have told them that Tūhoronuku has met with Mr Morgan to put him in no doubt that much of what he is proposing is unacceptable to Ngāpuhi.The Crown instructed Mr Morgan to have a report completed by 20 July 2012. We have yet to see that report, despite repeated requests.Of key importance is that Ngāpuhi voted overwhelmingly last year (76% of those who voted) to give Tūhoronuku their mandate to negotiate the settlement of Ngāpuhi Te Tiriti o Waitangi grievances and historical claims against the Crown.What Mr Morgan is proposing deviates from what Ngāpuhi have voted on, voted for and support. For instance, regarding the creation of a Post Settlement Governance Entity, Tūhoronuku has given its commitment to Ngāpuhi that they will have input into the development of this structure, and the opportunity to vote on it.It is not for Mr Morgan or the Crown to dictate to Ngāpuhi what we will or will not do. It is important to acknowledge the role of Te Runanga A Iwi O Ngāpuhi, which was the genesis and has invested heavily in the Ngāpuhi settlement journey.Mr Morgan was appointed by the Crown for this facilitation role. But the reality is that Ngāpuhi have spoken following the biggest awareness and communications effort in Iwi Maori, and there is nothing to sort out. There are small pockets of resistance, but there is often opposition to everything in life.In the same edition of the Northland Advocate was another headline “North’s jobless rate NZ's highest". This sad fact speaks for itself.The Crown must now show leadership in moving forward and recognising Tūhoronuku’s mandate, and complete the Ngāpuhi settlement - for the advancement and prosperity of Ngāpuhi, Northland and Aotearoa.Tūhoronuku will be contacting the Prime Minister and Minister in charge of Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations to discuss Mr Morgan's on-going work and the reluctance of the Crown to follow its own settlement process

Go to the Rūnanga website for more details: www.ngapuhi.iwi.nz or phone the office 0800 NGAPUHI or 0800 642784

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