Ngapuhi adds 20,000 members
Northland iwi Ngapuhi will be reviewing its communications strategies to ensure it reaches all its new members.
In the latest Census, the number of people identifying themselves as being of Ngapuhi origin jumped 20,000 to 122,000, or almost one in five Maori.
Ngapuhi Runanga chairperson Sonny Tau says most of the increase came from people living outside the Ngapuhi tribal area, and shows people trying to split their hapu off from the main tribe lack wider support.
“A lot of Ngapuhi are just sick and tired of the politicking and the creation of other organisations and other groupings that quite frankly was understood to be Ngapuhi, and this I think is some backlash from that,” Mr Tau says.
He says publicity over Ngapuhi's financial turnaround and the progress it is making towards getting its treaty claims heard may have helped boost numbers.
COMPO SMALL RETURN FOR VIETNAM VETS
New Zealand First spokesman on Defence, Ron Mark, says no amount of money can make up for the way New Zealand soldiers were treated both in Vietnam and on their return home.
The former career soldier says the settlement negotiated between the RSA and the Crown is not perfect, but goes some way towards addressing the medical needs of soldiers and their families affected by the spraying of the defoliant, Agent Orange during the Vietnam War.
Mr Mark says the $30m package can't take away the sacrifices New Zealand’s Vietnam veterans made for their country.
“I don't think you will ever come up with a perfect compensatory deal for Vietnam veterans, end of story. There is no way anyone can make up for the hurt, the embarrassment, the ridicule, the loss of self esteem they suffered when they came back from Vietnam,” Mr Mark says.
TERTIARY PART FOR TAITOKERAU STUDENTS
Auckland University's new pro vice chancellor Maori at Auckland University wants to encourage more Maori from the north to study at tertiary level.
Before his stint in Parliament as a New Zealand First MP, Jim Peters from Ngati Wai was principal of Northland College and the chair of the Northland Regional Council.
Mr Peters says he has made it a priority to develop the infrastructure needed to make sure Maori students from Taitokerau and other areas have a pathway to university education.
“Endeavouring to have more Maori students come, more Maori students stay longer and compete their degree, and probably more important than that, more Maori going to masters and doctorate level, and particularly across the whole range of disciplines,” Mr Peters says.
He says there is a dire shortage of Maori studying maths and science to a post graduate level.
NGAI TAI OPPOSING CLEVEDON CANAL PLANS
A Ngai Tai member says a planned canal development at southeast of Auckland totally ignores the iwi's whakapapa connections to the land.
Pita Turei says the Manukau City Council needs to consider Ngai Tai's historic and whakapapa connections to the Clevedon area before voting on a proposal to build almost 300 new homes on canals near the mouth of the Wairoa River.
That connection was recognised a decade ago when a planned marina was stalled by the discovery of an urupa under the high tide mark, making the land tapu.
Mr Turei says Ngai Tai wants its values respected.
“There's been the thing in Tamaki where we’ve hosted the waves of immigration over the generations now, so there’s not a principle of being anti development as such but there are the efforts to include into the considerations our values,” Mr Turei says.
He says recent development to the Clevedon area has covered over or dug away many the marks left by Ngai Tai and Te Uri Karaka people on the land.
PETERS WANTS MORE RURAL STUDENTS AT UNI
Auckland University's new pro vice chancellor Maori says Maori students in rural schools deserve the same access to quality education as their urban counterparts.
Jim Peters, who was principal at Northland College before serving as a New Zealand First list MP, says he has longstanding concerns about the standard of maths and science teaching in Taitokerau schools.
He says it means some students find the going too tough at tertiary level.
Mr Peters says there is a critical need for skilled Maori.
“All times are critical, but in education the changes in technology and the way the we’re becoming more and more urban based and citified based and so on means that for Mori students the challenge is even greater, particularly for rural students, because I haven’t been altogether happy about the teaching of maths and science,” Mr Peters says.
HENARE WANTS KURA STANDARDS UPPED
NationaL's new Maori affairs co-spokesperson says he will be keeping an eye on teaching standards within the kura kaupapa system.
Tau Henare says he made it clear to party leader John Key, that his preference in the role was to focus on education and the work being done by the ministry for Maori development, Te Puni Kokiri.
Mr Henare, a former national co-ordinator for the Kohanga Reo Trust, says Maori students learning in a total immersion environment deserve the same quality of tuition available to mainstream students.
“Over the last 20 years Maori education has just grown exponentially but there is still huge focus that has to be done on quality, and standards, and just because there is a kura, does it mean we have to accept lesser quality, lesser standards, lesser funding?” Henare says.
In the latest Census, the number of people identifying themselves as being of Ngapuhi origin jumped 20,000 to 122,000, or almost one in five Maori.
Ngapuhi Runanga chairperson Sonny Tau says most of the increase came from people living outside the Ngapuhi tribal area, and shows people trying to split their hapu off from the main tribe lack wider support.
“A lot of Ngapuhi are just sick and tired of the politicking and the creation of other organisations and other groupings that quite frankly was understood to be Ngapuhi, and this I think is some backlash from that,” Mr Tau says.
He says publicity over Ngapuhi's financial turnaround and the progress it is making towards getting its treaty claims heard may have helped boost numbers.
COMPO SMALL RETURN FOR VIETNAM VETS
New Zealand First spokesman on Defence, Ron Mark, says no amount of money can make up for the way New Zealand soldiers were treated both in Vietnam and on their return home.
The former career soldier says the settlement negotiated between the RSA and the Crown is not perfect, but goes some way towards addressing the medical needs of soldiers and their families affected by the spraying of the defoliant, Agent Orange during the Vietnam War.
Mr Mark says the $30m package can't take away the sacrifices New Zealand’s Vietnam veterans made for their country.
“I don't think you will ever come up with a perfect compensatory deal for Vietnam veterans, end of story. There is no way anyone can make up for the hurt, the embarrassment, the ridicule, the loss of self esteem they suffered when they came back from Vietnam,” Mr Mark says.
TERTIARY PART FOR TAITOKERAU STUDENTS
Auckland University's new pro vice chancellor Maori at Auckland University wants to encourage more Maori from the north to study at tertiary level.
Before his stint in Parliament as a New Zealand First MP, Jim Peters from Ngati Wai was principal of Northland College and the chair of the Northland Regional Council.
Mr Peters says he has made it a priority to develop the infrastructure needed to make sure Maori students from Taitokerau and other areas have a pathway to university education.
“Endeavouring to have more Maori students come, more Maori students stay longer and compete their degree, and probably more important than that, more Maori going to masters and doctorate level, and particularly across the whole range of disciplines,” Mr Peters says.
He says there is a dire shortage of Maori studying maths and science to a post graduate level.
NGAI TAI OPPOSING CLEVEDON CANAL PLANS
A Ngai Tai member says a planned canal development at southeast of Auckland totally ignores the iwi's whakapapa connections to the land.
Pita Turei says the Manukau City Council needs to consider Ngai Tai's historic and whakapapa connections to the Clevedon area before voting on a proposal to build almost 300 new homes on canals near the mouth of the Wairoa River.
That connection was recognised a decade ago when a planned marina was stalled by the discovery of an urupa under the high tide mark, making the land tapu.
Mr Turei says Ngai Tai wants its values respected.
“There's been the thing in Tamaki where we’ve hosted the waves of immigration over the generations now, so there’s not a principle of being anti development as such but there are the efforts to include into the considerations our values,” Mr Turei says.
He says recent development to the Clevedon area has covered over or dug away many the marks left by Ngai Tai and Te Uri Karaka people on the land.
PETERS WANTS MORE RURAL STUDENTS AT UNI
Auckland University's new pro vice chancellor Maori says Maori students in rural schools deserve the same access to quality education as their urban counterparts.
Jim Peters, who was principal at Northland College before serving as a New Zealand First list MP, says he has longstanding concerns about the standard of maths and science teaching in Taitokerau schools.
He says it means some students find the going too tough at tertiary level.
Mr Peters says there is a critical need for skilled Maori.
“All times are critical, but in education the changes in technology and the way the we’re becoming more and more urban based and citified based and so on means that for Mori students the challenge is even greater, particularly for rural students, because I haven’t been altogether happy about the teaching of maths and science,” Mr Peters says.
HENARE WANTS KURA STANDARDS UPPED
NationaL's new Maori affairs co-spokesperson says he will be keeping an eye on teaching standards within the kura kaupapa system.
Tau Henare says he made it clear to party leader John Key, that his preference in the role was to focus on education and the work being done by the ministry for Maori development, Te Puni Kokiri.
Mr Henare, a former national co-ordinator for the Kohanga Reo Trust, says Maori students learning in a total immersion environment deserve the same quality of tuition available to mainstream students.
“Over the last 20 years Maori education has just grown exponentially but there is still huge focus that has to be done on quality, and standards, and just because there is a kura, does it mean we have to accept lesser quality, lesser standards, lesser funding?” Henare says.
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