United flag could fly on Maungakiekie
Ngapuhi elder Kingi Taurua is on the hunt for a suitable place in Auckland to fly New Zealand's first flag.
Transit refused the Ata Tino Toa group permission to fly its red, black and white flag on the Auckland Harbour Bridge.
Mr Tauroa says that's the wrong flag to symbolise Maori sovereignty, and the flag adopted by the Confederation of United Tribes in 1834 is the one to use.
He says if it can't fly on the bridge, there could be an attempt to fly the United Tribes flag on Maungakiekie One Tree Hill on Waitangi Day.
“The issue now is to make sure that people are aware that there is a sovereignty flag for Maori and it’s a national flag as far as we were concerned and it was received and acknowledged as a national flag, so there you are,” Mr Taurua says.
The flag will fly as always over the lower Te Tii Marae at Waitangi on February 6.
AQUACULTURE WEAK ON AFL BALANCE SHEET
Pan-Maori fishing company Aotearoa Fisheries wants action to encourage aquaculture development.
Reporting to Te Ohu Kaimoana's annual hui in Wellington today, Aotearoa chairperson Rob McLeod said in most areas the company was ahead of budget, with its $16.5 million profit almost $2 million higher than budget.
But he says changes to the aquaculture regime haven't produced the promised results, with no new aquaculture management areas introduced in the two years since the legislation was introduced.
He says Maori haven't been able to take advantage of high global prices for shellfish, and subsidiary Sealord has been unable to create the number of jobs it promised in the sector.
“We've been disappointed that we’ve not been able to push into areas in aquaculture particularly where I think we were as a joint venture with Nissui more optimistic about investment capital and opportunities opening up. That challenge still remains. It’s something we try with best endeavours to achieve,” Mr McLeod says.
Aotearoa Fisheries expects to make a $23 million profit in the year to September.
TAINUI FOOTBASKET OPEN FOR GUESTS
The organiser of Kawhia's traditional Maori food festival says the event celebrates the whakapapa of the area.
The festival will feature a variety of seafood delicacies including kokii or dried shark liver, and the mix of pickled mussels and puha known as toroi.
Lloyd Whiu says when the Tainui waka first arrived to Kawhia there was such an abundant amount of food, it was many years before the iwi needed to venture further out.
“When the Tainui waka first arrived there and they coined the phrase Kawhia kai, Kawhia moana, Kawhia tangata, the food basked of Tainui was found here in Kawhia. It’s a reflection of that, and we’ve just used that to get our unique food festival out there,” Mr Whiu says.
Up up to 10,000 people are expected in the Waikato west coast township tomorrow.
NO FISH FOR CHIEFS WHO AVOID MANDATE
The Maori fisheries settlement trust is warning iwi who haven't been through the mandating process that their access to cheap quota will be cut off.
Chairperson Shane Jones told Te Ohu Kaimoana's annual hui in Wellington today that 70 percent of iwi have become mandated organisations and received almost $400 million in fisheries assets.
Mr Jones says if tribes refuse to get mandates, their fisheries assets will be managed in trust and they will no longer be able to buy an annual catch entitlement.
“If within a year or so there are still some laggards who are unwilling to go through the mandate process required by Te Ohu Kaimoana, then serious questions will need to be directed towards their leaders. There is no reason why tribes such as Ngati Tama have not been through the mandating process. There will be no exceptions,” Mr Jones says.
The trust this week confirmed the mandates of Ngati Tuwharetoa and two small iwi from the top of the South Island, Te Atiawa and Rangitane, meaning there are only 17 iwi to go through the process.
TUREI ATTACKS MAORI SEAT AX PLAN
Green MP Metiria Turei says the Maori seats should stay until Maori decide to get rid of them.
National leader John Key has reiterated his party's intention to scrap the seats, but says it will wait until 2014 before making the change.
Ms Turei says just because National has changed its leader doesn't mean it has changes its spots, and its anti-Maori direction seems intact.
She says a future National Government has no right to make that decision.
“If those seats are ever to be abolished it is to be a decision by Maori that they are no longer necessary, and they will be no longer necessary when we have proper representation as treaty partners. National is just pursuing its old strategy of attacking Maori because it’s an easy victim to attack,” Ms Turei says.
MAORI TO FORE IN SEVENS FEST
Well as you probably know, the Wellington round of the international rugby sevens championship is on as we speak.
New Zealand sevens guru Eric Rush has been helping with the squad.
The former captain says Maori players continue to feature prominently in a sport with a distinctly multicultural face.
The playing squad for this weekend's games includes two Maori, three Samoans, two Tongan and three Pakeha.
Mr Rush says there are some fine young Maori players coming through in the larger squad.
“Solomon King, he’s a boy from the Bay of Plenty. Zar Lawrence, he played last year, he’s from Whatawhiwhi up north, brought up in Kaeo too, I went to school with his aunties and uncles. Then you’ve got Willie Rickards, Jarek Goebel, Cheb Tuhoro, I’ve got plenty of time for him,” Mr Rush says.
Transit refused the Ata Tino Toa group permission to fly its red, black and white flag on the Auckland Harbour Bridge.
Mr Tauroa says that's the wrong flag to symbolise Maori sovereignty, and the flag adopted by the Confederation of United Tribes in 1834 is the one to use.
He says if it can't fly on the bridge, there could be an attempt to fly the United Tribes flag on Maungakiekie One Tree Hill on Waitangi Day.
“The issue now is to make sure that people are aware that there is a sovereignty flag for Maori and it’s a national flag as far as we were concerned and it was received and acknowledged as a national flag, so there you are,” Mr Taurua says.
The flag will fly as always over the lower Te Tii Marae at Waitangi on February 6.
AQUACULTURE WEAK ON AFL BALANCE SHEET
Pan-Maori fishing company Aotearoa Fisheries wants action to encourage aquaculture development.
Reporting to Te Ohu Kaimoana's annual hui in Wellington today, Aotearoa chairperson Rob McLeod said in most areas the company was ahead of budget, with its $16.5 million profit almost $2 million higher than budget.
But he says changes to the aquaculture regime haven't produced the promised results, with no new aquaculture management areas introduced in the two years since the legislation was introduced.
He says Maori haven't been able to take advantage of high global prices for shellfish, and subsidiary Sealord has been unable to create the number of jobs it promised in the sector.
“We've been disappointed that we’ve not been able to push into areas in aquaculture particularly where I think we were as a joint venture with Nissui more optimistic about investment capital and opportunities opening up. That challenge still remains. It’s something we try with best endeavours to achieve,” Mr McLeod says.
Aotearoa Fisheries expects to make a $23 million profit in the year to September.
TAINUI FOOTBASKET OPEN FOR GUESTS
The organiser of Kawhia's traditional Maori food festival says the event celebrates the whakapapa of the area.
The festival will feature a variety of seafood delicacies including kokii or dried shark liver, and the mix of pickled mussels and puha known as toroi.
Lloyd Whiu says when the Tainui waka first arrived to Kawhia there was such an abundant amount of food, it was many years before the iwi needed to venture further out.
“When the Tainui waka first arrived there and they coined the phrase Kawhia kai, Kawhia moana, Kawhia tangata, the food basked of Tainui was found here in Kawhia. It’s a reflection of that, and we’ve just used that to get our unique food festival out there,” Mr Whiu says.
Up up to 10,000 people are expected in the Waikato west coast township tomorrow.
NO FISH FOR CHIEFS WHO AVOID MANDATE
The Maori fisheries settlement trust is warning iwi who haven't been through the mandating process that their access to cheap quota will be cut off.
Chairperson Shane Jones told Te Ohu Kaimoana's annual hui in Wellington today that 70 percent of iwi have become mandated organisations and received almost $400 million in fisheries assets.
Mr Jones says if tribes refuse to get mandates, their fisheries assets will be managed in trust and they will no longer be able to buy an annual catch entitlement.
“If within a year or so there are still some laggards who are unwilling to go through the mandate process required by Te Ohu Kaimoana, then serious questions will need to be directed towards their leaders. There is no reason why tribes such as Ngati Tama have not been through the mandating process. There will be no exceptions,” Mr Jones says.
The trust this week confirmed the mandates of Ngati Tuwharetoa and two small iwi from the top of the South Island, Te Atiawa and Rangitane, meaning there are only 17 iwi to go through the process.
TUREI ATTACKS MAORI SEAT AX PLAN
Green MP Metiria Turei says the Maori seats should stay until Maori decide to get rid of them.
National leader John Key has reiterated his party's intention to scrap the seats, but says it will wait until 2014 before making the change.
Ms Turei says just because National has changed its leader doesn't mean it has changes its spots, and its anti-Maori direction seems intact.
She says a future National Government has no right to make that decision.
“If those seats are ever to be abolished it is to be a decision by Maori that they are no longer necessary, and they will be no longer necessary when we have proper representation as treaty partners. National is just pursuing its old strategy of attacking Maori because it’s an easy victim to attack,” Ms Turei says.
MAORI TO FORE IN SEVENS FEST
Well as you probably know, the Wellington round of the international rugby sevens championship is on as we speak.
New Zealand sevens guru Eric Rush has been helping with the squad.
The former captain says Maori players continue to feature prominently in a sport with a distinctly multicultural face.
The playing squad for this weekend's games includes two Maori, three Samoans, two Tongan and three Pakeha.
Mr Rush says there are some fine young Maori players coming through in the larger squad.
“Solomon King, he’s a boy from the Bay of Plenty. Zar Lawrence, he played last year, he’s from Whatawhiwhi up north, brought up in Kaeo too, I went to school with his aunties and uncles. Then you’ve got Willie Rickards, Jarek Goebel, Cheb Tuhoro, I’ve got plenty of time for him,” Mr Rush says.
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