Māori doubtful of Key's leadership

Photo / Mark Mitchell

I would like to take this opportunity to support to some extent Prime Minister John Key on the issue of the partial sale of state-owned energy companies, insofar as the Te Karere DigiPoll in which the poll had found 88 per cent of Māori voters did not support the partial sale of state-owned energy companies. 

I can only talk about one Iwi and that is Ngai Tahu of which I am an uri (child) of.

                                                 Aoraki (Mount Cook) in the Southern Alps

    The Waitangi Tribunal claim
   
KARAKIA

Kia whia koutou ki te whakawairangi i tū hangaia i te haroharo o te rangi
My incantations go to you my ancestors who stand poised with excitement,
balanced upon the vault of heaven.

E kimi ana au i ngā kanohi o Tāwhaki kei runga o Māui kei raro.
I am searching for the images of Tāwhaki above and Māui below.

Kāore ko au ko Tāwhaki, ko Māui rānei, kua ngaro i Te Whare o Pikitūroa
kei Whiti Reia.
I am not Tāwhaki who sought celestial knowledge, neither am I Māui who established the
rituals for all peoples.

Nō reira, ngā pūtake maunga, ngā maunga whakahirahira, ngā ariki tapu i whakamau ai
i te mana a Te Wai Pounamu, ngā ariki kei roto i te kōpu o Te Urutī, ara ake rā, are ake rā,
maranga mai!
These were lost in the House of the Long Standing Plumes of Ngāi Tahu. Therefore my
ancestral mountains that glisten, my sacred lords who grasped the authority of the Greenstone
Isle and who now lie in the womb of Te Wai Pounamu, arise and stand before me.

Ka tirohia ngā whatu kura o te rangi, ka hotu tonu ake te ngākau ki te Hotu-o-te-ihi-rangi.
Ka kitea ngā take i mua i te aroaro o te iwi.
You the myriad of shining stars who gaze upon your descendants, my heart beats ever onwards
with the breaking rays of the dawn. You see the questions that are before the faces of the people.

Nō reira ngā whatu kura tukua mai te ihi, te wehi, te mana, te tapu nō te urunga tapu o te
mātauranga o ngā mea katoa.
Therefore my guiding lights draw closer and instil within the ihi, wehi, mana and tapu and all
those elements that stem from the vessel of knowledge.

Tuhia te kei o tēnei waka whakahirahira kei runga, kei raro kia tere ai te ihu o te waka i
Te Whare Hukahuka o Tangaroa hei whakatau ai i te parekura.
Ko Whakamārama!
Protect the prow of this canoe, above and below so that it speeds with safety across the
foaming girdle of the seas and let this canoe beach on the battleground of Whakamārama!

E Tāne, Haea te awa, Puta i tua, Puta i waho i te pakiaka o te rākau
O maere nuku,
O maere raki,
O maere o te mana whenua.
Tāne! Tāne who created all living things. Slash a pathway across the seas so that my canoe
may travel afar and beyond. This canoe stems from the root of a tree created from your loins.
It was felled according to the rituals followed with the separation of the heavens.

I ruka Tāne I raro Tāne Te Raki ihi o Tāne Pakupaku o Tāne Nohoanga o te ariki
Hoatu tēnei waka ki uta e! Uira ki te Mahaanui a Māui Ko te Ao Tākata!
Tāne above, Tāne below, Tāne who brought the rays of life upon the world and made the land
free of all restrictions - send this canoe ashore just as lightning flashes to the Greenstone Isle.

E ngā uri a Raki rāua ko Pohārua o Te Pō, arā ko Te Hau o Te Ope Ruaraki me Te Hau o Te Ope
o Patunuioaio, kawea he kōrero, tu mai te wehiwehi e A hei aha rā?
My chant goes to the descendants of Raki and his wife Pohārua o Te Pō - the winds from
horizon and the lands of Waitaha, carry the histories of the past to the living so that the ihi and wehi are aroused within.
For what purpose?

Kia whakamārama ai te tirohanga a ngā  hua i whakairotia ai te waka pounamu ki uta, ki tai.
Tū ake rā tōku poupou whakairo i te poho o tōku maunga e!
To enlighten the views of the people who carved the greenstone canoe ashore and upon the tides.
My carved pillar stands with pride upon my mountain!

Courtesy of Te Karaka Special Edition.

I think its important for our people, all peoples of Aotearoa to understand why in part the government is consulting with Māori around the country on the Mixed Ownership Model
on legislative changes it considers necessary. 

I do not agree with the removal of:  Section 9  prohibits the Crown from acting in a manner inconsistent with the principles of the Te Tiriti o Waitangi - The Crown is in a partnership with Māoridom and it seems that one-half of the partnership is dead against the removal of Section 9
from any new legislation.

However, as part of  the Crown Settlement Offer from the then government and included in the Offer to the Ngāi Tahu Negotiating Group was what is called, 'Right of First Refusal' ("RFR").
This mechanism, will last forever, in "respect of a defined range of assets."

This RFR is triggered whenever Crown agencies decide to 'dispose' of the RFR assets.
Disposal is defined to include the sale of assets in this case of the energy companies, partial sale of the energy companies. Disposal is also defined as the issuing of long-term leases (for terms of 50 years, including rights of renewal). In certain circumstances the RFR is also triggered if the relevant assets are transferred into a company and that company is later sold.

The RFR applies to an extensive range in the rohe (geographical territory) that are owned by the Crown as at the date the Deed of Settlement is signed, but not to assets subsequently purchased by the Crown. One springs to mind to me and that is the Highbank Power Station (TrustPower).

The Highbank Power Station was constructed between 1939 and 1945, as part of a combined project to enhance farm production and to generate electricity.

Highbank Power Station

May 2010 - Work commences with Trustpower intake at Highbank power station.

Methven Line

August 2010 - First property offtake installed on Methven Line

MCG

Construction of the BCI gate structure at the Methven check gate on the RDR

Testing

May 2010 - RDR gauged for flow for potential extra capacity.

Pipeline

Mar 2010 - ACL begin installing welded pipe

Completed

Mar 2010 - Installation complete on first farm

As a safety mechanism, memorials were to be added to the titles of RFR properties, telling Crown agencies and potential purchasers that these properties must be offered to Ngāi Tahu before they can be sold to anyone else. This RFR process is supposed to provide to both parties as a sign of their relationship,  what is called to 'negotiate in good faith' when it comes to agreeing to price, terms and conditions for a sale of the said asset to Ngāi Tahu, and they Ngāi Tahu, cannot be forced to accept any unreasonable price, terms or conditions without Ngāi Tahu first being offered the asset on the same basis.



                                                    




Tenei te waahi  Ō Tū Wharekai     

           

                        



Home for me.

I shall wait till after a consultation hui that I attend before making anymore comments. I can only talk about my own Iwi and it is for others' from other Iwi to talk about their  Crown Settlement Packages

The only other issue I have is why was the Crafar Farm not leased to the Chinese, there could have been negotiations entered into with the liquidator. Private Sale or Not.


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