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Website Update

Submitted by TRNOTA on Fri, 2012-05-04 10:10

Tena koutou,

You may have noticed some of the content on our page has been removed. We are currently in the process of re-vamping our website for Te Aupouri Iwi. This will happen over the next month or so. We will be off-line for approx 1 week with the new launch scheduled for beginning of June 2012.
WATCH THIS SPACE FOR A NEW IMPROVED WEBSITE.....

Te Runanga Nui o Te Aupouri Newsletter - April 2012

Submitted by TRNOTA on Mon, 2012-04-23 10:29

Please find attached our April 2012 Newletter. We are planning on submitting a newsletter every 3 months to our homepage so please keep checking on any updates.

Files:

TRNOTA_Newsletter_-_April_2012.pdf

Te Hiku o te Ika Forum Fisheries Management Plan 2012-2016

Submitted by TRNOTA on Mon, 2012-04-23 09:56

The Te Hiku Fish Plan has an ability to influence fisheries planning at a National level. It may also have the ability to influence policy at a National Level if it’s considered there is a requirement at a National Scale.

The following is the Ministry of Fisheries “guidelines” when developing National Fish Plans:
a. Develop management objectives and communicate what MFish are trying to achieve within fisheries;
b. Prioritise goals for National fisheries;
c. Monitor performance measures to reach their objectives;
d. Allows MFish to action their objectives.

Files:

Te_Hiku_o_te_Ika_Forum_Fisheries_Management_Plan_2012-2016.pdf

Parengarenga Inc Meeting Cancellation

Submitted by TRNOTA on Fri, 2012-03-09 12:36

Tena koutou,
The Parengarenga Inc. Information Hui on Saturday 17th March is now cancelled.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Parengarenga Incorporation Committee

Potahi Marae Hire Rates

Submitted by TRNOTA on Wed, 2010-12-15 08:46

(effective 9th October 2010 Potahi Marae AGM)

Daily Rate $250.00
Bond $250.00
Hourly Rate (not exceeding 6 hours) $20.00
Hourly Rate – Fundraising Only (not exceeding 6 hours) $25.00
Te Kao School/Te Piri O Waimirirangi TKR Discretion of the Trustees
Other Schools $300.00
Government Agencies $300.00
Birthday Celebrations 80+ Day of Celebration (Free)

Additional Costs
Chiller Hire (non hire day) $40.00 per day
Dry Cleaning – Sheets $2.40 per item
Dry Cleaning – Pillowslips $1.00 per item

Mō tā Te Aupōuri nei Tikanga Keri Poka

Submitted by TRNOTA on Wed, 2010-11-24 10:57

Here’s another thing that I have pondered too: Why is the inside of the hole made to receive the coffin shaped? And then a gap is left for boards or similar to lay on top so that the earth doesn’t actually fall directly onto the coffin lid?

We, Te Aupouri have prided ourselves on the neatness and certainly from visitors, their comments on the unusual yet ‘warmness’ of our method of interment.

When did Te Aupouri start doing this?
Who was the first Aupouri to have been buried like this?
Why do we do it?
Who outside of Te Aupouri (other tribe) has been interred in this manner?

Nō hea tēnei kupu, te 'wāmu'?

Submitted by TRNOTA on Tue, 2010-11-09 08:33

Tēnā koutou e ngā whanaunga,

I happenned to be speaking to Pops (Piripi Kapa) and broached this word with him. Although he was familiar with this word being used often at home he wasn't overly sure how the word came about but had a think and came up with this theory. He used to see the old people use a hole which had been cut into the side of a bank, then place the kanae which had been tied onto manuka poles into and across the hole . Then there would be manuka burnt beneath the fish and the hole covered with manuka to keep the smoke in. When tin came along, it was used instead.

Pops reckons that the word 'waa' probably represents 'time' and the word 'mu', and youve probably already guessed it probably means 'umu'. So there you have a kanae spending time in an oven.

Ngā mihi ki a koutou katoa.
Marupo (Richard) Kapa

Te Aupōuri - A Brief History

The people of Te Aupōuri share a number of well known ancestors with the iwi of wider Muriwhenua including: Ruanui-a-Tāne & Manawa-a-rangi; Pō-hurihanga & Maieke; Tū-moana, Pare-waha-ariki & Kahukura-ariki; Te Parata & Kahu-tia-nui; Tōhē & Te Kura-a-rangi; Tū-mata-hina & Tangi-rere; Kai-rewa & Wai-miri-rangi; Toa-kai, Tū-kotia & Tara-whati; Hāiti-tai-marangai & Puna; Tū-whakatere, Tū-te-rangi-a-tohia & Tū-poia and Moko-hōrea & Uru-te-kawa.

From these ancestors descend two families from which Te Aupōuri as an independent iwi trace their descent: firstly the family of Mōre Te Korohunga of Ngāti Ruanui and his wife Te Awa of Muriwhenua, who became known as Ngāti Te Awa (the descendants of Te Awa).

The name 'Te Aupōuri' came about from an event in Pawarenga at the time of Mōre Te Korohunga and Te Awa's children - Kupe, Whēru, Te Ikanui, Te Kakati and Te Uruhāpainga. One day, following the murder of Kupe, and her brother’s revenge, Ngāti Te Awa were besieged in Makora Pā. Finally, Ngāti Te Awa lit a huge fire covering the Whangapē Harbour with thick dark smoke. They managed to escape north across the harbour in the midst of the dense smoke to their mother’s lands further north. Hence the name Te Aupōuri (au = smoke, pōuri = dark).

The second family that Te Aupōuri descend from is that of Te Ihupango and Te Amongaariki II, who had two daughters - Tihe and Kohine. Te Amongaariki II is especially important to Te Aupōuri being the principal ancestress of the Te Kao lands and the southern Pārengarenga Harbour.

Mōre Te Korohunga & Te Awa's son, Te Ikanui, married Te Ihupango & Te Amongaariki II's daughters, Tihe & Kohine. These are the ancestors of the Te Aupōuri people of Te Kao – “Ngā Uri O Te Ikanui”.

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