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Waikato Ki Roto o Poneke

Minutes of meeting held Sunday 13 September

Te Aroha Complex, 148 Whites Line East, Waiwhetu

Present: Mark Ormsby, Dale Morgan, Bub Konia, Erica Gregory, Miri Luke, Sue, Dallas Ratu, Donald

Gregory.

Apologies: Roimata Tauroa, Tau Huirama, Jane Taylor, Awhimai Reynolds

The hui was held to find out what whanau wanted to focus on for the next few years based on the

purpose of Waikato Ki Roto o Poneke which is:

Whakawhanaungatanga

Keeping in touch with what’s happening in the tribe

Tautoko the Kingiitanga

Te Atiawa attending koroneihana

Those present shared their thoughts on the challenges and opportunities for the roopu.

Challenges Opportunities

Whanau are busy Connector to Tainui and Tainuitanga

The experience of those working with students and whanau in the community is that many are disconnected from the tribe through limited or no knowledge of their whakapapa.

Whakawhanaungatanga

Find out what the whanau want to do. Some suggestions were: wananga on raranga, karanga, kingiitanga, waiata, accessing tools to help find out more about your whakapapa; sports, kapahaka, behind the scenes at Te Papa, Film Archive showings of footage relevant to the Kingiitanga.

Clarify how the roopu can point people to Tainui sign posts

Our own contacts with the wider Wellington based whanau tells us there is a lot of knowledge and experience out there. How do we tap into this?

Action: Develop a brief survey for our email group that asks “How can we connect you to your

Tainuitanga?” Proposed questions are:

Age bracket: 16-25, 26-35, 36-45, 46-60, 61+

What are the issues?

What are the solutions?

Would you come to a WKRP hui?

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The commitment of those present at the hui was to talk to our whanau about the survey

(particularly our rangatahi), capture their feedback and bring the korero to the next hui, or email it

to Roimata.

There was a question about how we make contact with members who don’t have email (particularly

older members)? Pre-emails we used to have a phone tree. Can this be reinstated?

General Business

Mark Ormsby advised that he is standing for Port Nicholson Board. If successful, he will stand down

from WKRP.

Send out paanui about TriMaori event.

New date scheduled for our AGM:

Date: Sunday 18 October 2015

Time: 1pm

Venue: Te Aroha Complex, 148 Whites Line East, Waiwhetu