Paraparaumu airport development reveals sale sham
Te Whanau a te Ngaarara spokesperson Peter Love says development plans for Paraparaumu Airport are a farce designed to hide the fact the land is surplus and should go back to the original Maori landowners.
Kapiti Avion Holdings has sold the 131 hectare block for $40 million to Paraparaumu Airport Holdings, which plans a $750 million business park development on the airport fringes.
Kapiti Avion bought the land in 1995 for $1.65 million from the National Government, which claimed it did not need to offer it back to its original Maori owners because it was still being used as an airport.
Mr Love says the development is out of scale for the airport, which services relatively small turbo prop planes.
He says the next step for Te Whanau a te Ngaarara is to go back to court.
IN: We're going to challenge the Crown but more particularly we are going to challenge the Kapiti Coast District Council which should not aid and abet this development knowing it is going on land which was stolen from Maori way back when," Love said.
Peter Love says Maori support the retention of an airport, but want back the land which is obviously surplus to that use.
RAKAUMANGA SCHOOLS MINISTERS ON SUCCESS
Ministers have been told well schools need well communities.
Education Minister Steve Maharey and associate Parekura Horomia visited Te Wharekura o Rakaumanga yesterday in Huntly as part of a recess week tiki tour of schools around the country.
Deputy principal of Huntly's Rakaumanga School Robyn Hata says the school credits is high achievement rates to the fact its pupuls know where they are from and are proud of who they are.
She says the school also relies on strong community support.
IN: We are what our community is around us, and we support our community and our commmunity supports us. That is a strong ground for achievement in any kura, so we said to the ministers we need to have a well community to have a well school," Hata said.
Robyn Hata says Rakaumanga also nurtures its own teaching staff, with 10 of its teachers being ex-pupils.
RUGBY WHAKAPAPA DEFENDED
aori All Black manager Peter Potaka says questions being asked about the eligibility of Maori players are ill founded.
Queensland-born Morgan Turinui, who wants to get into the team after being dropped from the Wallabys, has queried the ethnicity of some current and past Maori players including Paul Tito and Tony Brown.
Potaka says the Maori team goes to great lengths to confirm iwi and whakapapa connections, and Turinui is off the mark.
"One of his comments was about Tito. I said he should ring home and find Tito is as Maori as Turinui is. Bottom line, all our players meet the requirements, they know their tupuna, and that's all you need to know," Potaka said.
PARAPARAUMU AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGED
Paraparaumu residents are asking when is an airport not an airport.
They hope the answer is when it is a giant industrial development.
Kapiti Avion Holdings, which bought Paraparaumu Airport from the National Government in 1995 for $1.6 million, has sold the 131 hectare block for a reported $40 million.
The new owner, Paraparaumu Airport Holdings, plans a $750 million business park development on the airport fringes.
Peter Love from Te Whanau a te Ngaarara, wholse land was taken for the airport in World War 2 without compensation, says it's all a sham to avoid declaring the land surplus - in which case its orginal owners could claim it back.
Mr Love says the developer's plans would suit an airport the size of Chicago's O'Hare of New York's Kennedy Airport, which is ridiculous.
"He does admit that the largest airopoirt hat would land there would eb a Dash 8 turbo prob but no jets. The plans he has for the airport could not possibly require 133 hectares," Love said.
Peter Love says Te Whanau a te Ngaarara will challenge the sale in court, and it wants the governemnt to step in and stop what has become an on-going farce.
MIDWINTER MATARIKI FASHION SHOW
Maori fashion designers are seeing in Matariki, the Maori new year, with at show in an Auckland graffiti gallery.
Exhibitor Bethany Edmunds says tomorrow night's opening at the Disruptive in Karangahape Road will feature live models.
The clothes, or kakahu, will be at the gallery for another month so people can see the intricate work being done by Maori designers.
Ms Edmunds says her own work combines traditional techniques and modern materials.
Other designers in the Matariki Maramataka show include Huhana and Janine Clarken, Matarika from Tribal Fibres and Carmel from Aotearoa House.
MAORI MASSAGE TEAMS UP WITH NATURAPATHS
Taranaki rongoa specialist Karangaroa, which teaches traditional Maori massage, has teamed up with the Naturopathic College of New Zealand, to offer a course that combines both fields of study.
Spokesperson Mahinekura Reifield says the five month Ka Ora programme is recognised by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority.
She says the alliance will allow students the best of both worlds.
Kapiti Avion Holdings has sold the 131 hectare block for $40 million to Paraparaumu Airport Holdings, which plans a $750 million business park development on the airport fringes.
Kapiti Avion bought the land in 1995 for $1.65 million from the National Government, which claimed it did not need to offer it back to its original Maori owners because it was still being used as an airport.
Mr Love says the development is out of scale for the airport, which services relatively small turbo prop planes.
He says the next step for Te Whanau a te Ngaarara is to go back to court.
IN: We're going to challenge the Crown but more particularly we are going to challenge the Kapiti Coast District Council which should not aid and abet this development knowing it is going on land which was stolen from Maori way back when," Love said.
Peter Love says Maori support the retention of an airport, but want back the land which is obviously surplus to that use.
RAKAUMANGA SCHOOLS MINISTERS ON SUCCESS
Ministers have been told well schools need well communities.
Education Minister Steve Maharey and associate Parekura Horomia visited Te Wharekura o Rakaumanga yesterday in Huntly as part of a recess week tiki tour of schools around the country.
Deputy principal of Huntly's Rakaumanga School Robyn Hata says the school credits is high achievement rates to the fact its pupuls know where they are from and are proud of who they are.
She says the school also relies on strong community support.
IN: We are what our community is around us, and we support our community and our commmunity supports us. That is a strong ground for achievement in any kura, so we said to the ministers we need to have a well community to have a well school," Hata said.
Robyn Hata says Rakaumanga also nurtures its own teaching staff, with 10 of its teachers being ex-pupils.
RUGBY WHAKAPAPA DEFENDED
aori All Black manager Peter Potaka says questions being asked about the eligibility of Maori players are ill founded.
Queensland-born Morgan Turinui, who wants to get into the team after being dropped from the Wallabys, has queried the ethnicity of some current and past Maori players including Paul Tito and Tony Brown.
Potaka says the Maori team goes to great lengths to confirm iwi and whakapapa connections, and Turinui is off the mark.
"One of his comments was about Tito. I said he should ring home and find Tito is as Maori as Turinui is. Bottom line, all our players meet the requirements, they know their tupuna, and that's all you need to know," Potaka said.
PARAPARAUMU AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGED
Paraparaumu residents are asking when is an airport not an airport.
They hope the answer is when it is a giant industrial development.
Kapiti Avion Holdings, which bought Paraparaumu Airport from the National Government in 1995 for $1.6 million, has sold the 131 hectare block for a reported $40 million.
The new owner, Paraparaumu Airport Holdings, plans a $750 million business park development on the airport fringes.
Peter Love from Te Whanau a te Ngaarara, wholse land was taken for the airport in World War 2 without compensation, says it's all a sham to avoid declaring the land surplus - in which case its orginal owners could claim it back.
Mr Love says the developer's plans would suit an airport the size of Chicago's O'Hare of New York's Kennedy Airport, which is ridiculous.
"He does admit that the largest airopoirt hat would land there would eb a Dash 8 turbo prob but no jets. The plans he has for the airport could not possibly require 133 hectares," Love said.
Peter Love says Te Whanau a te Ngaarara will challenge the sale in court, and it wants the governemnt to step in and stop what has become an on-going farce.
MIDWINTER MATARIKI FASHION SHOW
Maori fashion designers are seeing in Matariki, the Maori new year, with at show in an Auckland graffiti gallery.
Exhibitor Bethany Edmunds says tomorrow night's opening at the Disruptive in Karangahape Road will feature live models.
The clothes, or kakahu, will be at the gallery for another month so people can see the intricate work being done by Maori designers.
Ms Edmunds says her own work combines traditional techniques and modern materials.
Other designers in the Matariki Maramataka show include Huhana and Janine Clarken, Matarika from Tribal Fibres and Carmel from Aotearoa House.
MAORI MASSAGE TEAMS UP WITH NATURAPATHS
Taranaki rongoa specialist Karangaroa, which teaches traditional Maori massage, has teamed up with the Naturopathic College of New Zealand, to offer a course that combines both fields of study.
Spokesperson Mahinekura Reifield says the five month Ka Ora programme is recognised by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority.
She says the alliance will allow students the best of both worlds.
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