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Media Release: Ngāti Tama ki Te Tauihu and Ngā Tīmoti community unveil and bless pouwhenua at Ngā Tīmoti School
Tuesday 15th December 2020
Ngāti Tama ki Te Tauihu and Ngā Tīmoti community unveil and bless pouwhenua at Ngā Tīmoti School
A pouwhenua recognising the connection between Ngāti Tama ki Te Tauihu and Ngatimoti School was unveiled and blessed on Friday at a dawn ceremony in Motueka.
The pouwhenua was commissioned by the Trust and carved by Ōtūwhero resident, Tim Wraight as part of connecting with school sites that were returned to Ngāti Tama.
Ngāti Tama purchased the schools land from the crown as part of their commercial redress package in settlement in 2014.
Chairman of Ngāti Tama ki Te Tauihu, Anthony Little, says “we acknowledge Tim for his creative interpretation and in particular for incorporating specific aspects pertaining to Ngāti Tama and their Taranaki origins, and the local Ngā Tīmoti area. Tēnā rā koe e te hoa e Tim.”
Carver Tim Wraight designed the pouwhenua to reflect kaitiakitanga of the natural environment that the children and school community are involved with.
Wraight explains that “the top is the head of a Ngāti Tama tupuna carved in the same way as the head at the top of a tokotoko with the conical peak representing Taranaki mounga”
“This has the face looking both forward to the future and backwards to remember the past”
As the Ngā Tīmoti community, school and Ngāti Tama iwi admired the Pouwhenua, a crowd favourite came in the form of the tamaiti (child) carved into the base of the Pouwhenua and peering out from beneath the cloak. The tamaiti represents the children of the school.
The Pouwhenua unveiling was also a chance to reflect on the history of the local area, and discuss how the several versions of the name of the school and area came about.
Cultural Manager at Ngāti Tama ki Te Waipounamu Trust Te Ahu Rei explained that “one popular version follows the story of a man by the name of Tīmoti (Timothy) – an avid eeler in the local area who carved, ‘Nā Tīmoti’ (belonging to Tīmoti), into a tree to mark his fishing spot”
He says that “it appears that over the years, the name has gone through some changes and is now more commonly spelt as one word ‘Ngātīmoti’ which may be interpreted as ‘Ngā Tīmoti (the descendants of Tīmoti)”.
The pouwhenua is the second installation by Ngāti Tama at a school. The first pouwhenua was unveiled and blessed in December 2019 at Motupipi School in Mohua.
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Contact Information
For queries and more information contact the Ngāti Tama Communications Manager
Christina Harris Pakeho – Communications Manager
03 548 1740
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Take part in the Ngāti Tama Census 2020
Ngāti Tama ki Te Waipounamu Trust would like to hear from you, our iwi members.
Take part in Ngāti Tama’s first CENSUS so we can plan the next 10 years with whānau in mind.
We are capturing whānau information in our first official member count. It takes a snapshot of our registered iwi members in New Zealand, abroad and the places where we live.
This census and will be done regularly to help understand how our iwi changes over time. We encourage all our members 13 years and older to participate, if you have rangatahi in your household who are Ngāti Tama, please get them to complete the census.
This information will help inform Ngāti Tama’s strategic direction for the next 10 years in areas such as education, health, housing and Te Reo me ōna Tikanga to name a few.
Kaumātua and some whānau will be sent printed copies of the census. If you would like a printed copy, please contact the office.
For help completing this form contact Ngāti Tama office on:
- 0800 8262 494
- (03) 548 1740 or
- whanau@ngati-tama.iwi.nz
See here for a copy of our privacy statement and FAQ
#Protect Our Whakapapa
This is an unsettling time. It’s new for all of us and it changes every day. So as whānau Māori, #ProtectOurWhakapapa! made a website to bring together simple, clear, trustworthy information and help about the COVID-19 pandemic.
We can’t physically go to our marae right now, or even each others’ homes to have a kōrero and a kapu tī. Online spaces are more important than ever before.
On their website there are links to official, up-to-date information about the virus. They have posters that you can share with whānau of all ages. There are links for all of the whānau – support for wāhine, tāne, and games and apps for our tamariki.
We’re all in this together – we can do it, whānau – let’s #ProtectOurWhakapapa!
Joint Media Release: Ngāti Tama ki Te Waipounamu Trust & Andrew Yuill
17 March 2020
WCO applicants Ngāti Tama ki Te Waipounamu Trust and Andrew Yuill plan to take time to understand Special Tribunal Recommendations Report
Ngāti Tama ki Te Waipounamu Trust and co-applicant Andrew Yuill welcome the much anticipated Te Waikoropupū Water Conservation Order (WCO) Report, which has been released today.
It has been a long road for both co-applicants.
The Minister for Environment accepted their WCO application in April of 2017 and the hearings concluded in August the following year. The Trust and Mr Yuill initially expected the Report to be released back in August 2019.
“Ngāti Tama need to have a long hard look at [the report] and a good hard think about it” Ngāti Tama kaumātua John Ward-Holmes said.
Now that the report is released, there is a fifteen-day appeal period for applicants and submitters to lodge any appeals.
Ngāti Tama Trustee Margie Little says ‘it is important that we take the time to sit down, talk to the lawyers, our co-applicant Andrew and that we are able to come to a consensus and a path forward’
Ngāti Tama, have led the WCO process with co-applicant Mr Yuill, and together sought the highest possible protection for this wāhi tapu for future generations.
“The release of Tribunal’s report is a major and very welcome step in a long journey. We first applied for the WCO in 2013, and many people had already contributed a lot of careful work by then” Mr Yuill said.
“It is a powerful weaving of mātauranga Māori, Pākehā science, and profound environmental values which cross cultures. We would recommend anyone to read it and reflect on what their own values are.” Andrew Yuill said.
Te Waikoropupū Springs is a site of significance, a wāhi tapu and an iconic taonga in Mohua/Golden Bay. It is central to whānau, hapū and Iwi who have maintained ahikāroa in the rohe since the early 1800s.
Kaumātua John Ward-Holmes says “This wai has intrinsic values to whānau of Ngāti Tama who have held ahikāroa and kaitiaki of Mohua and the Springs. Kaitiakitanga is all our responsibility and we must all try our best to protect and preserve Te Waikoropupū Springs and the aquifer”.
The WCO application sought protection of Te Waikoropupū Springs, Anatoki and Waikoropupū Rivers, the confined and unconfined Arthur Marble Aquifer, the Takaka River and its tributaries, including the Waingaro, hydraulically connected groundwater including the Takaka Limestone Aquifer and Takaka Unconfined Gravel Aquifer.
The issues of significance for Te Waikoropupū Springs, aquifer and catchments included water quality, pollution, E. coli and nitrate levels in the water.
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Please send all media queries in writing to
Christina Harris Pakeho
Ngāti Tama ki Te Waipounamu Trust Communications Manager
Photo credit:
Ngāti Tama ki Te Waipounamu Trust
From left to right: Trustee – Margie Little, Kaumātua – John Ward-Holmes, Co-applicant – Andrew Yuill
Glossary
Wai – water
Ahikāroa – a continuous relationship
Kaitiaki and Kaitiakitanga – guardian/guardianship
Wāhi tapu – sacred site
Whakatū Marae Development Plan
Whakatū Marae are wanting, with the support of whānau to implement the physical works in their Marae Development Plan with upgrades, security, health and safety.
The acceptance of this plan will allow for the marae to seek funding for highlighted projects and maintaining the growth of Te Ao Māori.
As shown in the plan there are going to be some substantial cost for maintenance, compliance and refurbishment of most areas within the marae.
To take a look at their Whakatū Marae Development Plan
He mihi maioha,
Tēnā koutou e te iti, e te rahi e whakarauika mai nei ki tēnei marae kōrero o Ngāti Tama. Tuatahi, me huri ō tātou ngākau ki te hunga kua nunumi atu ki te pō, haere, oti atu rā. Ko rātou te hunga wairua ki rātou, ko tātou ngā mahuetanga iho o rātou mā, tēnā koutou, tēnā tātou katoa.
Welcome to this platform to help us ‘hiki wairua’ – boost our spirits and encourage us to keep doing what we’re doing during this trying time of the Covid-19 lockdown. We will take this opportunity to provide ‘food for thought’ with some snippets from our local history in Te Tauihu, discussion about place names and customs, some Māori language tips, waiata and karakia.
Te Hiki Wairua o Ngāti Tama ki Te Tauihu gives whānau the opportunity to connect with their whakapapa and iwi through stories, information and teachings. This pānui will be a regular segment, each week focusing on different aspects of Ngāti Tama, we welcome whānau contribution.