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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
Ngāti Tama ki Te Tauihu – Whānau Engagement Hui
Now is a time to engage with our whānau, kanohi ki te kanohi, so the Board can understand what our whānau future priorities are. I encourage whānau to attend one of the Whānau Engagement Hui to help inform our strategic planning and our goals for the future.
Ngāti Tama ki te Waipounamu Trust wants to know what is important to you so that we can plan the next 10 years with whānau priorities in mind.
We invite our iwi members and whānau to share your thoughts and ideas about where the tribe should be. You can participate by attending a hui.
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The Ngāti Tama ki Te Tau Ihu Strategic plan 2015 is due to expire in 2020 and a new plan needs to be created to guide our Trustees, Trust and Asset Holding Company for future decision making. It is important to have input from whānau who reside inside and outside of Te Tau Ihu so that our future planning and goals represent our iwi members priorities.
Additionally, information and feedback forms will be made available online and via post so that all registered iwi members have the opportunity to engage with the Trust.
If you can attend a hui please RSVP or for further enquiries please contact Christina
Ngāti Tama ki Te Waipounamu Trust
Phone: (03) 548 1740
Email: comms@ngati-tama.iwi.nz
Podcast Kōrero on Ngāti Tama History!
Kia ora Te Whānau,
The link below takes you to our whanaunga Taku Parai kōrero on Ngāti Tama history. Check it out!
https://soundcloud.com/tw-oa/taringa-ep-95-iwi-o-te-wiki-ngati-tama
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.