Maniapoto to view new forest tenant
King Country Maori landowners hope a meeting this week with their new lessees may allow them to drop legal action challenging Carter Holt's sale of its forestry interests.
Spokesperson Willie Te Aho says the Australia and New Zealand heads of Hancock Timber Resources, which bought the forests, will be welcomed on to Tokanganui a Noho Marae in Te Kuiti on Thursday.
Mr Te Aho says while there is no set agenda, the landowners hope the pair will be sympathetic to their desire to buy back the leases.
“If we can reach an agreement with Hancock, to proceed with the action is not necessary. I think any party should not rely on legal action to create sustainable solution, the only way we are going to create a sustainable solution is sitting down with Hancock, working it through to reach an agreement,” Mr Te Aho says.
He says if they can't reach agreement, the landowners will go to the Maori Land Court in February to argue that Carter Holt's sale of its forest leases was illegal because it involved interests in Maori land.
MAORI NURSES STRIKE OFF ALONE
Nurses working for Maori health providers want their own collective contract.
The Nurses Organisation has negotiated a contract with the New Zealand Medical Association giving pay increases to 2500 practice nurses, registered nurses, midwives and administrative staff working in the primary health sector.
Maori nurse Hineroa Hakiaha says Maori have become frustrated that some of their concerns have been overlooked, so they are striking off on their own.
“We know we can do a good job with our whanau, but we also need to know that we were going to get the same pay as when we left the hospital. That wasn’t happening. It’s taken almost two years of negotiation, around the table, so Maori decided we would do our own negotiation,” Ms Hakiaha says.
SOUTH CANTERBURY ROCK ART VANDALISED
Ngai Tahu Maori Rock Art Trust curator Amanda Symon says education may be the key to stopping vandalism of rock art sites.
Ms Symon is helping clean up after vandals spray painted racist slurs at three sites near the Raincliffe Historic Reserve in south Canterbury.
She says while some of the sites have protective cages, such defences are not always feasible or effective.
“The rock art itself is caged on that particular site, but it’s in a rural area. Overseas studies have shown the best protection against vandalism is education. It’s just raising people’s awareness about how significant the art is,” Ms Symon says.
She says a Maori rock art centre the trust is developing in Timaru should help people appreciate what a treasure rock art is.
WAITAHA EDGED OUT OF MAUAO RETURN
Te Puke-based hapu Waitaha has dropped its demands to be included as one of the iwi to receive joint ownership of Mauao in Mt Maunganui.
Ngai Te Rangi chairperson Hauata Palmer says Waitaha representative Tame McCauslin informed the other three iwi today that his hapu was dropping its claim, but reserved right to have a say if the maunga is ever commercialised.
Mr Palmer says it's a welcome development.
“The relationship between us and Waitaha is still very cordial. There may be some elements in Waitaha are still not very happy about the outcome, but certainly with Tame McCauslin, he very reluctantly agreed to withdraw, but withdraw they did, and that was what we were after,” Mr Palmer says.
He says while Waitaha's whakapapa connections to Mauao are recognised, the settlement is an acknowlegment the mana whenua is held by Ngaiterangi, Ngati Ranginui and Ngati Pukenga.
JONES DEFENDS TREATY DEADLINE
The head of Labour's Maori caucus says the Maori Purposes Bill setting a 2008 deadline for lodging treaty claims is overdue.
The Maori Party and the Greens voted against the Bill, with Maori Party co-leader Pita Sharples saying it was rammed through without proper consultation and over the opposition of the majority of Maori submitters.
But Shane Jones says the 21 years since the Waitangi Tribunal was allowed to receive historical claims was time enough to identify any grievances.
“The whole damn country, acre rood and perch, has been claimed over many times, and vast swathes of the country have already been settled. I genuinely feel there is just no appetite out there for prolonging the process of registering the claims, and people, if they are exasperated, are exasperated at how long it takes to derive a compensation,” Mr Jones says.
He says the people screaming loudest are the lawyers, who are the greatest beneficiaries of an extended process.
MAORI WORDS BECOMING NATURAL TONGUE
Increased usage of Maori words by New Zealanders is cause for optimism.
That's the view of John Mc Alistair, a lecturer in Maori studies and linguistics at Victoria University.
His research shows the average kiwi understands more than twice as many Maori words as previously estimated.
Mr McAlistair says people concerned for the future of te reo Maori should be heartened by the trend.
“More and more words are become naturalised, if you like, and they’re becoming more and more familiar to all New Zealanders, whether they’re Maori or non-Maori, I think that will continue to happen because these kids in school are having much greater exposure to these words than their grandparents, for examples, so it suggests over time we should be very optimistic,” Mr McAlistair says.
He says the increasing use of words like whanau, aroha, mokopuna and waka, is contributing to the development of a distinct New Zealand English.
Spokesperson Willie Te Aho says the Australia and New Zealand heads of Hancock Timber Resources, which bought the forests, will be welcomed on to Tokanganui a Noho Marae in Te Kuiti on Thursday.
Mr Te Aho says while there is no set agenda, the landowners hope the pair will be sympathetic to their desire to buy back the leases.
“If we can reach an agreement with Hancock, to proceed with the action is not necessary. I think any party should not rely on legal action to create sustainable solution, the only way we are going to create a sustainable solution is sitting down with Hancock, working it through to reach an agreement,” Mr Te Aho says.
He says if they can't reach agreement, the landowners will go to the Maori Land Court in February to argue that Carter Holt's sale of its forest leases was illegal because it involved interests in Maori land.
MAORI NURSES STRIKE OFF ALONE
Nurses working for Maori health providers want their own collective contract.
The Nurses Organisation has negotiated a contract with the New Zealand Medical Association giving pay increases to 2500 practice nurses, registered nurses, midwives and administrative staff working in the primary health sector.
Maori nurse Hineroa Hakiaha says Maori have become frustrated that some of their concerns have been overlooked, so they are striking off on their own.
“We know we can do a good job with our whanau, but we also need to know that we were going to get the same pay as when we left the hospital. That wasn’t happening. It’s taken almost two years of negotiation, around the table, so Maori decided we would do our own negotiation,” Ms Hakiaha says.
SOUTH CANTERBURY ROCK ART VANDALISED
Ngai Tahu Maori Rock Art Trust curator Amanda Symon says education may be the key to stopping vandalism of rock art sites.
Ms Symon is helping clean up after vandals spray painted racist slurs at three sites near the Raincliffe Historic Reserve in south Canterbury.
She says while some of the sites have protective cages, such defences are not always feasible or effective.
“The rock art itself is caged on that particular site, but it’s in a rural area. Overseas studies have shown the best protection against vandalism is education. It’s just raising people’s awareness about how significant the art is,” Ms Symon says.
She says a Maori rock art centre the trust is developing in Timaru should help people appreciate what a treasure rock art is.
WAITAHA EDGED OUT OF MAUAO RETURN
Te Puke-based hapu Waitaha has dropped its demands to be included as one of the iwi to receive joint ownership of Mauao in Mt Maunganui.
Ngai Te Rangi chairperson Hauata Palmer says Waitaha representative Tame McCauslin informed the other three iwi today that his hapu was dropping its claim, but reserved right to have a say if the maunga is ever commercialised.
Mr Palmer says it's a welcome development.
“The relationship between us and Waitaha is still very cordial. There may be some elements in Waitaha are still not very happy about the outcome, but certainly with Tame McCauslin, he very reluctantly agreed to withdraw, but withdraw they did, and that was what we were after,” Mr Palmer says.
He says while Waitaha's whakapapa connections to Mauao are recognised, the settlement is an acknowlegment the mana whenua is held by Ngaiterangi, Ngati Ranginui and Ngati Pukenga.
JONES DEFENDS TREATY DEADLINE
The head of Labour's Maori caucus says the Maori Purposes Bill setting a 2008 deadline for lodging treaty claims is overdue.
The Maori Party and the Greens voted against the Bill, with Maori Party co-leader Pita Sharples saying it was rammed through without proper consultation and over the opposition of the majority of Maori submitters.
But Shane Jones says the 21 years since the Waitangi Tribunal was allowed to receive historical claims was time enough to identify any grievances.
“The whole damn country, acre rood and perch, has been claimed over many times, and vast swathes of the country have already been settled. I genuinely feel there is just no appetite out there for prolonging the process of registering the claims, and people, if they are exasperated, are exasperated at how long it takes to derive a compensation,” Mr Jones says.
He says the people screaming loudest are the lawyers, who are the greatest beneficiaries of an extended process.
MAORI WORDS BECOMING NATURAL TONGUE
Increased usage of Maori words by New Zealanders is cause for optimism.
That's the view of John Mc Alistair, a lecturer in Maori studies and linguistics at Victoria University.
His research shows the average kiwi understands more than twice as many Maori words as previously estimated.
Mr McAlistair says people concerned for the future of te reo Maori should be heartened by the trend.
“More and more words are become naturalised, if you like, and they’re becoming more and more familiar to all New Zealanders, whether they’re Maori or non-Maori, I think that will continue to happen because these kids in school are having much greater exposure to these words than their grandparents, for examples, so it suggests over time we should be very optimistic,” Mr McAlistair says.
He says the increasing use of words like whanau, aroha, mokopuna and waka, is contributing to the development of a distinct New Zealand English.
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