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Te Hapū o Te Wakaminenga Wahi o Maniapoto Tribal Government Te Tai Hauauru Aotearoa Nu Tireni,
PO Box 27096 Hamilton, New Zealand Phone 027871304441 Email [email protected] and [email protected] www.maniapoto.govt.maori.nz/homem.html www.govt.maori.nz
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Te Hapū o Te Wakaminenga Wahi o Maniapoto Maniapoto Tribal Government Te Tai Hauauru
PO Box 27096 HAMILTON, 3257, Phone 0278713044, [email protected] or [email protected] , www.maniapoto.govt.maori.nz/homem.html www.govt.maori.nz
7 November, 2019 Ref THWWM: AMB
TO:
Paula Southgate, Mayor Hamilton City
Council, [email protected] Hamilton
City Council, Private Bag 3010,
Hamilton 3240,New Zealand,
Richard Briggs [email protected],
Hamilton City Council, Private Bag
3010, Hamilton 3240,New Zealand,
Nathan Savage Principal Planner
Infrastructure Hamilton City Council .
Chief Executive Garry Dyet
Manager - Strategic Partnerships Gary
Knighton
Gavin Ion Chief Executive Phone: 07
824 5878 Email:
Waikato Regional Council
nz ,
Mark RatcliffeInterim Chief Executive
NZTA [email protected] ,
Robyn Fisher – Director Office of the
Chief Executive
NZTA [email protected] ,
Director, Kobus Mentz, Amberfields,
Heritage NZ Area Manager
[email protected] , Taroi Rawiri Environmental Manager
Waikato Tainui
Tainui Group Holdings Chris Joblin or
Mike Pohio [email protected] ,
CC. Jacinda Ardern Prime Minister
New Zealand Government
Hon Nanaia Mahuta Minister of Maori
Development, and Local Government
Parliament Buildings Wellington ,
Hon Kelvin Davis, Minister of Maori
Crown Relations
Tiwha Bell Maniapoto Trust Board [email protected] Her Excellency The Right Honourable Dame Patsy Reddy Governor-General of New Zealand Government House Private Bag 39995 Wellington Mail Centre Lower Hutt 5045 C/- [email protected]
NOTICE OF RAHUI PLACED ON AMBERFIELD DEVELOPMENTS,
PEACOCKES SUBDIVISION, & SOUTHERN LINKS PROJECT
TAMAHERE AND RUKUHIA NGĀTI MANIAPOTO LANDS KNOWN AS
MANGAKOTUKUTUKU, TIREKE, MANGAWHERO, TE MAIRE AND PUKERIMU
On 19 October 2019 officials from the Sovereign Te Hapu o Te Wakaminenga Waahi o Maniapoto
Tribal Government placed a Rahui Tapu ( https://www.facebook.com/events/2486740794766585/)
over our whenua of Nga hapu o Ngati Maniapoto at Tamahere and Rukuhia also known as
Mangakotukutuku, Tireke, Mangawhero, Te Maire and Pukerimu prohibiting Amberfield
Developments and their agents, Peacocks subdivision, the Southern links project and the
Te Hapū o Te Wakaminenga Wahi o Maniapoto Tribal Government Te Tai Hauauru Aotearoa Nu Tireni,
PO Box 27096 Hamilton, New Zealand Phone 027871304441 Email [email protected] and [email protected] www.maniapoto.govt.maori.nz/homem.html www.govt.maori.nz
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Hamilton City Council from any further development of their housing estate development on the
said whenua.
This development is in direct breach of our Ture Tikanga o Te Whenua, in breach of our
customary rights, native title undisturbed possession, (article 2 Te Tiriti o Waitangi reo text) and in
breach of our constitution He Wakaputanga 1835 the right to govern over, manage and exercise
our sovereignty over our whenua, by the said parties failure to consult with Nga hapu o Ngati
Maniapoto and failure to obtain consent to develop a housing project on our tupuna
ancestral whenua.
The development project is on the historic Hingakaka battle site and home of our tupuna Turongo
and Mahinarangi as well as several Maniapoto pa sites, urupa, many puna wai, ngahere, harakeke
and food resources. Ecological damage on the Waikato river and its environs is imminent
notwithstanding the effects of substantial economic deprivation to Ngāti Maniapoto hapū and
whānau through loss of land use and access to resources. This subdivision is on land that was
illegally taken by the NZ Company Government for a Militia settlement in the 1860s.
The following pānui was published in the Waitomo News on 24 October, 2019 and the Waikato
and the Waikato Times 26 October, 2019;
Te Hapū o Te Wakaminenga Wahi o Maniapoto Tribal Government Te Tai Hauauru Aotearoa Nu Tireni,
PO Box 27096 Hamilton, New Zealand Phone 027871304441 Email [email protected] and [email protected] www.maniapoto.govt.maori.nz/homem.html www.govt.maori.nz
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Before we placed the rahui on the whenua my young Maniapoto nephew Te Kopa Eketone said to
me, “where is my nannies pa?’ He of course was speaking of Nukuhau Pa sited in the area where
Amberfield's housing estate is being developed.
As Maniapoto still retains their mana whenua rangatiratanga the development stands as a gross
injustice to our rangatahi whose ancestral heritage has been seized by false claims of conquered
lands by the NZ government.
The Rahui is in place until further notice or until such times as the aforementioned parties have
consulted and or obtained consent from the Sovereign Nga Hapu of Ngati Maniapoto.
All aforementioned parties whom this notice is addressed to are required to contact Te
Wakaminenga wahi o Maniapoto Tribal Government representatives by 12 November, 2019 in
order that a hui can be arranged for consultation with ngā hapū mana whenua of Ngāti Maniapoto.
Refusal to meet, will cause affected Ngāti Maniapoto hapu to take further action, for effective
remedies.
Contact 0278713044 or [email protected] www.maniapoto.govt.maori.nz
Heoi ano
Arikinui Ripekatangi
Te Hapu o Te Wakaminenga wahi o Maniapoto o Nu Tireni
Maniapoto Tribal Government
Te Tai Hauauru Rohe of the Maori Government of Aotearoa Nu Tireni
Mobile 0278713044 Email: ripekatangi@ govt.maori.nz