Te Rarawa plan festival for 20th birthday
The inaugural Te Rarawa Festival is being hailed as a chance for those living outside the area to reconnect with their iwi.
The Far North iwi is trying to get as many people as possible back to Kaitaia for the festivival in the first week of November.
Organiser Jean Beazley says it's a way of celebrating the 20th birthday of Te Runanga o Te Rarawa.
Mrs Beazley says many descendants feel shy about returning home, and the festival will be a fun and easy way for them to reconnect to their roots.
Jean Beazley says the Te Rarawa festival will include a kapa haka competiton between the iwi's marae, sports events, a ball and a kaumatua dinner.
KURA GETS PERMANENT HOME
The principal of Palmerston North's Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Nga Mana Tamariki says the school whanau is welcoming the secuurity of a permanent home.
Work has begun on a new $1.7 million facility on a former United College of Education site which to house the Maori immersion school, whioch goes from pre-school to secondary level.
Principal Tony Wano says the kohanga reo will take up to 50 children, with room for another 120 pupils on the kura side.
He says it's been a long road, with the school going through a series of temporary homes over the past 10 years.
QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATED AT NGARUAWAHIA
The full house sign was up yesterday at Turangawaewae marae, in Ngaruawahia, for the 75th birthday of the Maori queen.
Waikato kaumatua, Hare Puke says a thousand people were at the wharekai, Kimiora where they were entertained with kapa haka from Waikato group Taniwharau and from Huntly's Te Wharekua o Rakaumangamanga, the winner of last week's national secondary schools championships.
Mr Puke says Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu stayed for the entire performance, and it was wonderful she was well enough to be part of the celebration in her honour.
NATIONAL’S MAORI ROOTS REMEMBERED
National Party list MP Tau Henare says the party should celebrate its history as it reaches out to Maori voters.
National held its annual conference in Christchurch this weekend.
Despite early teasers that leader Don Brash would soften his anti-Treaty of Waitangi line, Dr Brash made a point of reiterating National's commitment to the principle of One Law for All.
Mr Henare says Dr Brash has his support and his policies will be good for all New Zealanders.
He says National has always looked out for Maori interests.
"For those people who have grown up in town and don't know their marae and don't know their tupuna. And hopefully to renew or to discover all those things for themselves," Henare said.
Tau Henare says National want to be seen as a broad church party.
NEW EDUCATION SEC GETS ROYAL ASSENT
One of Maoridom's most experienced educators says the appointment of former Education Revfiew Office chief Karen Sewell to head the Education Ministry is good news for Maori.
Turoa Royal started teaching in 1960, and is now chairs both Te Wananga o Raukawa and Te nTau Ihu i Nga Wananga, the umbrella group for the Maori teritary sector.
Mr Royal says he worked with Ms Sewell in her previous roles and was impressed with her commitment to equity.
Turoa Royal says Karen Sewell should continue the innovative approaches of her predecessor, Howard Fancy.
ANCESTRAL GARDEN RECREATED IN HAMILTON
Work on a new Maori garden in Hamilton will step up a gear after last week's the unveiling of a waharoa, or gateway.
The garden, Te Parapara, is part of a proposed series of internationally-themed gardens on the banks of the Waikato River.
Waikato kaumatua Hare Puke says when the idea of an international garden was first mooted, his son Wiremu proposed one celebrating the tangata whenua of the area.
As well as indigenous plants, Te Parapara will include a pre European pa complete with pallisades, and pataka whakairo or carved raised storehouses.
Hare Puke visitors will be able to see the sophisticated agriculture practised by Maori ancestors.
The Far North iwi is trying to get as many people as possible back to Kaitaia for the festivival in the first week of November.
Organiser Jean Beazley says it's a way of celebrating the 20th birthday of Te Runanga o Te Rarawa.
Mrs Beazley says many descendants feel shy about returning home, and the festival will be a fun and easy way for them to reconnect to their roots.
Jean Beazley says the Te Rarawa festival will include a kapa haka competiton between the iwi's marae, sports events, a ball and a kaumatua dinner.
KURA GETS PERMANENT HOME
The principal of Palmerston North's Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Nga Mana Tamariki says the school whanau is welcoming the secuurity of a permanent home.
Work has begun on a new $1.7 million facility on a former United College of Education site which to house the Maori immersion school, whioch goes from pre-school to secondary level.
Principal Tony Wano says the kohanga reo will take up to 50 children, with room for another 120 pupils on the kura side.
He says it's been a long road, with the school going through a series of temporary homes over the past 10 years.
QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATED AT NGARUAWAHIA
The full house sign was up yesterday at Turangawaewae marae, in Ngaruawahia, for the 75th birthday of the Maori queen.
Waikato kaumatua, Hare Puke says a thousand people were at the wharekai, Kimiora where they were entertained with kapa haka from Waikato group Taniwharau and from Huntly's Te Wharekua o Rakaumangamanga, the winner of last week's national secondary schools championships.
Mr Puke says Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu stayed for the entire performance, and it was wonderful she was well enough to be part of the celebration in her honour.
NATIONAL’S MAORI ROOTS REMEMBERED
National Party list MP Tau Henare says the party should celebrate its history as it reaches out to Maori voters.
National held its annual conference in Christchurch this weekend.
Despite early teasers that leader Don Brash would soften his anti-Treaty of Waitangi line, Dr Brash made a point of reiterating National's commitment to the principle of One Law for All.
Mr Henare says Dr Brash has his support and his policies will be good for all New Zealanders.
He says National has always looked out for Maori interests.
"For those people who have grown up in town and don't know their marae and don't know their tupuna. And hopefully to renew or to discover all those things for themselves," Henare said.
Tau Henare says National want to be seen as a broad church party.
NEW EDUCATION SEC GETS ROYAL ASSENT
One of Maoridom's most experienced educators says the appointment of former Education Revfiew Office chief Karen Sewell to head the Education Ministry is good news for Maori.
Turoa Royal started teaching in 1960, and is now chairs both Te Wananga o Raukawa and Te nTau Ihu i Nga Wananga, the umbrella group for the Maori teritary sector.
Mr Royal says he worked with Ms Sewell in her previous roles and was impressed with her commitment to equity.
Turoa Royal says Karen Sewell should continue the innovative approaches of her predecessor, Howard Fancy.
ANCESTRAL GARDEN RECREATED IN HAMILTON
Work on a new Maori garden in Hamilton will step up a gear after last week's the unveiling of a waharoa, or gateway.
The garden, Te Parapara, is part of a proposed series of internationally-themed gardens on the banks of the Waikato River.
Waikato kaumatua Hare Puke says when the idea of an international garden was first mooted, his son Wiremu proposed one celebrating the tangata whenua of the area.
As well as indigenous plants, Te Parapara will include a pre European pa complete with pallisades, and pataka whakairo or carved raised storehouses.
Hare Puke visitors will be able to see the sophisticated agriculture practised by Maori ancestors.
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