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Volume 1 Issue 12, November 2010

The 80th Birthday of Wini Heke PepeneRon picked me up this morning and made our way to Mangamuka marae and while we were all waiting for Tainui to arrive, Moka, Hine and Eriata arrived too. The day was beautiful and sunny, few were already gathered there waiting for the powhiri. I didn't really know any one except Wini's brother, Hone Heke, Sam Pepene's two sisters, and the rest were all Mangamuka whanau and different ones who have been attending the Tribunal Hearings but I cannot put names to them.

As soon as Sophie and her crew arrived on their vans, included were the King’s spokesperson and kaumatua. They had the powhiri with Wini leading us all into the whare. She was draped in a kiwi feather cloak and looked so lovely and regal. We were mihi-ed by their traumata; the first speaker from nga manuhiri replied. Then Moka spoke and gave Wini's tatai to Kei and brother, Heke Turei. Hine and I got up to sing for him "Ma wai ra", Then the Tainui spokesperson, then Brian Joyce and a few other locals.

After this, we were called into the whare kai where Hine, Moka and I sat at the top table beside the King’s spokesperson and others. There must have been about 300 people. The meal was fit for a queen - toroi, tiitii with w/cress, tio, ika ota, minced paua, rewena, hangi packs and the usual salads and sweets. They also served bubbly wine and and grape juice, but I had 2 glasses of cold water! While we ate, they showed a video of clips of Wini at her various sporting events in all the countries in which she had competed in her marathons. They showed what she had achieved, and her medals as well - it was a lovely showing.

We said goodbye to Wini, Ron and I hopped into our vehicle and Moka and them hopped into theirs. I came home.

Na te Kuia tipitipihaere.

- Marara Hook

RiddleI start with the letter E. I end with the letter E. I usually contain only one letter. Yet I am not the letter E! What am I?Answers on page 13

“Doing nothing is very hard to do...you never know when you're finished.”

Leslie Nielsen

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Nga Korero o te Whanau

Judith PuruThe daughter of Tipi Puru, Judith Audrey Puru, passed away on September 30, 2010. She is the niece of Moka Puru, the brother of Tipi. She had 6 children, 18 grandchildren and 1 great grand child. Judith lay at Te Rawhiti Marae and was buried at Te Rautawa urupa.

Moe mai e te whaea. Ka nui te aroha ki to whanau kua mahue mai I a koe.

Shirley TenanaWife of the late Komene Tenana. Shirley passed away at 3.30am October 4, 2010. She had been living in Taumaranui and was buried there as her children wished. The funeral was at 11am on Wednesday, October 6th, 2010.

Moe mai e te whaea. Moe mai I to moenga roa. Haere, haere, haere.

Ihaka Te TaiIhaka was the eldest son of Paddy Te Tai, the brother of Marara Hook. Ihaka was adopted by the parents of the lawyer, Annette (Sykes) Jesson, and her whanau. He married Miria and had two children and spent most of his married life in Blenheim. He was buried there with full military honours because of his distinguished career in the Army.

Aunty Marara, Russell and Lynette went down to the tangi. Lynette’s mother, Aroha, is Ihaka’s sister and Paddy’s daughter. Russell, in readiness for his whaikorero, had prepared the Te Tai whakapapa.

And as part of it he told them that the Member of Parliament for Northern Maori 1884-1887 was Ihaka Te Tai who spent his life translating the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi into practical politics. Ihaka’s whanau was very impressed and Ihaka had never told them that in the 40 years they had known him.

No reira e te whanaunga, haere atu koe I runga i te huarahi kua takahia atu e o tatou tini maatua tuupuna, kua okioki to tinana i te ahuatanga o to mauiui. Haere atu ki te Torona o Ihoa.

Jesus and the RobberOne night a robber broke in to a home and heard a voice say,”Jesus is watching you.”He said, “Who said that?” The same voice said, ”Jesus is watching you.” The robber looked around and saw a parrot in its cage. He asked the parrot its name. The parrot said, ”Cornelius”. The robber said, ”What a name! Who names a parrot that?” The parrot said, “The same person who named the rottweiler behind you Jesus!”

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Whanau Stories Nga Korero o te Whanau

Brent Kerehona (Pukepuke-Ahitapu)Brent sent the whanau a message from the Te Rawhiti Marae website :

Kia ora te whanau,

Just emailing to see whether I could submit a brief profile and article for the newsletter.

I am a grandson of Rahiri and Te Ani Pukepuke-Ahitapu, and reside in Sydney. I am ex-military of ten years, having initially been a Para-trooper before corps transferring and becoming a Military Policeman. After discharging from the army, I studied a Bachelor of Arts degree, and then a Master of Teaching degree - I am currently a primary school teacher in the South West Sydney region.

Over the past six years, I've been researching and writing a book about New Zealand's military history. It is in the format of an historical novel, however it can also be viewed as an academic reference book. My research website can be viewed at http://www.tumatauenga.webs.com

As part of my research for the book, I have not only had the opportunity to travel all over Aotearoa (and meet whanau, war veterans,academics, as well as visit former battlesites, memorials, museums, military bases, urupa, etc around the country); but have also been able to do this around the world, to places such as: Egypt, England, France, Greece, Hawaii, Italy, and Japan (going to Vietnam in late October 2010 as well as Belgium in early June 2011).

This project has been such a wonderful journey, not only have I had the experiences, but I can give my Whanau, Hapu, Iwi, and Maori a taonga - a record of their tipuna and their stories and achievements.

Ka kite ano, Brent.

The Mystery is Solved! Our Wharenui was opend on May 9, 1918This is the extract from the ‘Northland Age’ and found in the Centenary book, “The Tides of History.”

“An event of 1918 was the opening of the new Rawhiti Maori meeting house, celebrated by a hui. It commenced on Thursday, 9 May, and lasted two days, with a large attendance of both Maoris and pakehas from all parts of the Bay of islands. The Roll of Honour recorded 13 names-Haklaraia, Tawhai, two Blomfields, Clendon, three Hekes, one Miko, two Rewhas, a Thomson and Smith.

World War II saw an impressive service-’18 left for overseas out of 18 eligible non was turned down medically, and eight were killed, all from five families. For a time, every second year or so, memorial services were held on Anzac Day at the little bay.

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Whanau Stories Nga Korero o te Whanau

Mere Clendon SmallmanNgaapuhi taniwharau he piko, he taniwha, he piko, he taniwha...

Kia Ora whaanau from the ‘Mighty Waikato’.

My name is Mere Clendon-Smallman a mokopuna of Henare and Taurangi, daughter of Matutaera and Pat and I have have been living in Kirikiriroa for the last 6 years. I am fortunate to have a loving husband Rikihana who hales from Tuuwharetoa and Patukeha and two beautiful children Te Rewha(9 ¾ ) and Te Tai(2 ½ ).

I have been teaching at Te Wharekura o Ngaa Taiaatea since 2005 and I’m fortunate to still be apart of the kura. I am one of 4 kaiako in the English Department at our kura, which is rare to see in a Maaori wharekura.

Believe it or not school has helped me to meet more whaanau from home, just last week I met a whanaunga, Teina Hakaraia. His grandfather is a younger brother to Uncle Arthur. Ironic thing is I had met this guy and seen him for over 2 months as he was the guitarist for our kura kapahaka group. Just through a conversation of place names we made the connection.

We have quite a few kids from Taitokerau, some are from Whangaruru, Ngaiotonga, Whananaki, Kaikohe, Panguru, Waiomio, Matawaia, Kaitaia and Rawhiti ........ We have two Waimirirangi’s and one Kaharau too. My tuupuna are never far from me.

Te Rewha has begun kapahaka with Te Pou o Mangatawhiri. This group was established by Te Puea to gather funds for the building of Tuurangawaewae Marae. Nanny Tura and the Rewha whaanau name is still known with the old people. Te Rewha and I now do Kapahaka together and she is an awesome tutor, helping me to learn words. She has her first performance for the koroneihana this month and we are all very excited.

Te Tai continues to be vibrant and vivid. He keeps us on our toes and we wouldn’t have it any other way! Rikihana is currently completing his degree at Auckland University in Media and Politics. He has returned from Australia and has been home for nearly a year now.

Well thats what’s happening up here with the Clendon-Smallman whaanau. We miss home and are grateful to the ahi kaa, who continue to keep the fires burning.

Maa te Atua koutou e manaaki, e tiaki i ngaa waa katoa. Mauri Ora!

Pipiwharauroa, kui, kui, whiti, whiti ora e!

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Whanau Stories Nga Korero o te Whanau

Liz HarteThe Korero of Liz Harte , the daughter of Michael and Helen Harte, sister of Mathew, wife of Rob Davidson.

Kia ora whanau and friends. For the last few years, I've been living in Melbourne, Australia studying engineering and then getting my first job as a software engineer. But four years is a while and it was time to travel further abroad. So, I decided to take advantage of my British passport I inherited from Dad (he was born in Wales) and move to the UK. After waiting 6 weeks for Rob's visa (my husband has a New Zealand passport), we booked some flights and were on our way!

Me (Liz) in Melbourne in Albert's Park looking back toward the city scape. The tall building is Eureka Tower.

For the weeks coming up to our departure, we had been applying for various roles all over the UK. Many people want to have the London lifestyle, but we were happy to experience the English life in general, so were applying for jobs from Bristol to Cambridge to Edinburgh and more. We didn't get interviews from many companies (I had 2 and Rob 3) but I was lucky that my first company, ARM, offered me a job within 10 days of being in the UK. We were moving to Cambridge!

For the more technical in our readers, I was applying for C++ software engineering roles specialising in design and development. ARM (http://www.arm.com) is a British company famous for making processor chips for cellphones and mobile devices. It's biggest competitor is Intel. I hadn't heard of ARM before I started working there, but to consumers like you and me, their technology is in many of the electrical products we use everyday.

Cambridge is a beautiful city. The population is only 120,000 plus students, but it is big enough to have the selection of retail and entertainment to still have discoveries for a while. We've only visited the inside of 2 of the colleges, King's College and Trinity College. Both were started by Henry VIII in the 16 th century – your sense of time and history is completely thrown the by the age of some of these buildings you walk through! The structures are beautiful, detailed, carved in stone and glass. We were very impressed. There's still a bunch more colleges to visit and we'll get to them one at a time, I'm sure.

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In Cambridge outside King's College. The tall building directly behind me is the chapel.

Rob ended up getting 2 job offers in the UK – one at Dyson near Bristol and the other a Bosch gardening near Ipswich. For those of you who know, those are on the far east and west sides of England! Rob ended up choosing the Bosch role because it was a commutable distance from Cambridge and I could accept my position at ARM. We live in a little 2 bedroom terraced town house with a little garden in the compacted suburbs of Cambridge. It's got gas heating through-out which a requirement for the sub-zero temperatures we'll get in winter! It's hitting zero degrees now and its only autumn – yikes! We've almost finished furnishing the place – but its cozy and comfortable and place we could call home for a while.

In Cambridge, our terraced house street. We're one in the middle and have a garden round back.

We're planning to go for a weekend trip away every couple of months. Last weekend we went to Oxford – another old university city. Oxford is bigger than Cambridge, population 165,000, and the colleges are a little further apart too in the CBD, so it makes the city center bigger too. It has a great selection of restaurants – we had our first authentic Japanese meals since we left New Zealand. Bliss! The colleges there are even older. We only visited 2, Christ Church College and the Bodelian Library. Christ Church is where they filmed some of Harry Potter - the Great Hall and various hallway scenes. They also used the library and another room in the Bodelian library for parts of the movie too. Very cool. :)

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In Oxford in the dining hall of Christ Church College. This was used for the Great Hall in the Harry Potter films.

We plan to stay in the UK for a few years, making sure to take weekend trips over to Europe to explore. Rob's never been to any part of Europe before, and I've only been to 3 cities (Paris, Rome and Venice) so there's much to see and learn.

We're already learning a lot about UK politics, taxes and benefits here for a start (a new government was elected this year and is making a huge cuts to benefits). They're hopelessly politically correct here, an hour long commute on the train is normal and unfortunately just about everyone owns a pair of Ugg boots that they were out to the shops. I kid you not.

Rob in London opposite parliament buildings and Big Ben. Yea, its not *that* big.

Rob and I will come back to Aotearoa someday, probably after a few years here. Most of our friends and whanau are still in NZ and we both had good childhoods there, so would want the same quality of life for our kids too. We want them to grow up surrounded by the Maori culture, loving rugby and going to the beach in summer. So we'll be back sometime, I promise. But until then, you can check out what's going on in our lives – past and present – on our blog, http :// www . lizandrob . co . nz .

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Nga Kai Ora Healthy Food

Maori are an indigenous people.A worldwide study of the diets of indigenous people by Weston Price , DDS found that :

● Indigenous diets were varied according to climate, geography, plants, animals.● People who followed their indigenous diets were robustly healthy● Those who moved away from the diets had diseases

What can we learn from this?

● There’s no single healthy diet.

● The best diet is one that suits your metabolic type● Find your metabolic type and follow a plan Dr . Mercola ' s Nutrition Plan ● Stay close to the tupuna diet. We don’t need high fat or high carbohydrate diets.

Healthy Tip! Read all labels.

Two poisons in our food

1. Frutose

● FRUCTOSE is a natural sugar and comes from Corn Syrup. That’s good. ● FRUCTOSE in fruit is very good.● FRUCTOSE which is artificially processed is bad for us. It is added to fizzy drinks and ‘natural’ juices. It’s

the sweetener.

2. MSG● MSG Monosodium glutamate is one of the most poisonous additives in supermarket sausages, tinned meats

and Chinese takeaways. Always ask about and look for MSG. Do not buy foods with MSG.● MSG makes food taste better and look fresher to get people to buy more. ● MSG is hidden under different names:● MSG is E621 Flavour Enhancer and other names with E62... ● MSG is E620 Glutamic acid● MSG is E621 Monosodium glutamate ● MSG is E622 Monopotassium glutamate ● MSG is E623 Calcium diglutamate ● MSG is E624 Monoammonium glutamate ● MSC is E625 Magnesium diglutamate

Contributions from Allan Mountain. His father and Helen’s father are brothers.http :// www . naturalnews . com /028323_ Hydrolyzed _ Vegetable _ Protein _ HVP . html

Healthy Tip! Wash all fruit and veges.

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Building the Cape Work Whare

Alvin Rewha and Henare Cook work on the roof. Francis Hepi and Iti Arama are carrying the deck.

Iti, Francis, Alvin, kuri and Henare.

RiddleCan you read this?

Yy u r yy u b I c u r yy 4 me

Answer on page 13

“When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.”

Peter O’Toole

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Maunganui Bay Rahui Now Official

Up to $100, 000 fine for breaching the ban for the next two yearsThe purpose of this email is to advise you that, pursuant to section 186a of the Fisheries Act 1996, the Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture has agreed to close Maunganui Bay to the take of all species of fish, aquatic life, or seaweed, with the exception of kina, for a period of two years from 1 December 2010 to 30 November 2012.

Please see the attached map of the area included in the temporary closure.

A copy of Fisheries (Maunganui Bay Temporary Closure) Notice 2010 is available online via the Ministry of Fisheries’ New Zealand Fisheries InfoSite: http://fs.fish.govt.nz/Page.aspx?pk=68&tk=381

A public notice regarding the temporary closure will be published in The Northern Advocate on Saturday 20 November 2010.

Regards,

Alastair ChildsFisheries Management-Spatial AllocationsMinistry of Fisheries | Te Tautiaki i nga tini a TangaroaASB Bank House 101-103 The Terrace | P O Box 1020, Wellington,New Zealand | +64 4 470 2600 | DDI 64 4 819 4293 | www.fish.govt.nz

http :// www . northernadvocate . co . nz / local / news / fishing - banned - in - bay - to - assist - fish - stocks /3930662/

Note that in the in the above link, the map of the area in the rahui includes the two islands and surrounds where there is a mixture of tropical and subtropical species, carried down in the Tasman and East Auckland currents.

Riddles

1. What do you call a gorilla with a banana in each ear?

2. Why did King Kong climb up the Empire State Building?

3. What city has no people?

Answers are on page 13

" Production is the basis of morale"

&

"Hard work makes play necessary"

John Willoughby

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NIWA (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research)

Bay of Islands Final Seagrass Research Report, May 2010Dr Fleur Matheson, Sanjay Wadhwa, Aleki Taumoepeau, Joshua Smith

This report describes quantifying the loss of sea grass from the Eastern Bay of Islands. Kuia from Ngati Kuta and Patukeha alerted the team to this loss around Te Rawhiti and the area, which they associated with the reduction of fish stocks.Sea grass meadows provide shelter and nurseries for fish and crustaceans. Snapper, flounder and piper grow in them as do scallops and other shellfish. Sea grass has declined world wide. and in New Zealand.

Six sites were assessed in the area- Cooks Cove (Motuarohia), Waiiti (Moturua) and Otiao (Urupukapuka). And 3 mainland sites at Urupukapuka, Hauai and Kaingahoa, Bays. Historical aerial photographs showed a decrease of sea grass in Kaimarama, Hauai and Kaingahoa bays, from 32 hectares in 1961 to less than 1ha. In 2009-10 these losses were confirmed.

In the offshore islands, the 17ha grass meadows have remained with little loss from 1961-2010.The offshore islands had a thicker and deeper (4.5m) plant growth than the mainland sites (2-3m).

A number of factors may have reduced these meadows.larger and denser sediment in the mainland sites, and phytoplankton and algae biomass reduce light to the sea grass plant which is necessary for growth. Algae has formed from septic tank leachates, stream and stormwater flows, Currents carrying contaminants from the inner Bay of Islands, boat effluent and grey water (which carries phosphorus).

There are at least 1500 vessels in the summer holidays in the Bay of islands. Boats, moorings and anchor scraping on the sea floor reduce sea grass and jetty activity.The report recommends that streams are planted to trap contaminants, septic tanks comply with guidelines, other discharge points monitor quality of discharges, boat owners are encouraged to offload grey water and sewerage at marinas or well offshore, land users reduce fertiliser use, and new moorings and coastal structures be placed away from sea grass meadows.

A further study is planned in the area to replant sea grass and confirm factors which reduce and increase sea grass.

The full report can be found at http :// www . terawhitimarae . co . nz .

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JokeA lawyer gets out of his new Mercedes and a motorist clips the door and rips it off. “Oh my God,”, he screamed until the Ambulance arrives, ”My Merc! My beautiful Merc!”

The Ambulance worker says to him,” Are you a lawyer?” “Yes”, replied the sobbing man. “You are so concerned with your belongings, you haven’t noticed that your arm has been torn off. That’s terrible!”

The lawyer turns in shock and screams, ”My Rolex! Where’s my Rolex?”

AnswersPage 1-envelope; Page 4-Too wise you are, too wise you be, I see you are too wise for me; Page 10-(1)Nothing. He can’t hear; (2) He couldn’t fit in the lift; (3) Electricity.

Whanau, do send in your korero and your jokes for the Christmas issue planned for December 23rd. Send in contributions by December 20.

Whanau in other countries and other parts of NZ-tell us what you’re doing! Send a photo too.