A Monthly Newsletter of Kāi Tahu news, views and events.
Congratulations to Rulon Nutira, son of Sally and moko of the late Ben, for his recent signing of a one year contract with the St George Illawarra Dragons rugby league team.
Rulon has just completed a stint with the Gundagai Tigers and is also a representative in the New Zealand Māori rugby league team. The New Zealand Māori team are due to play against the Queensland Māori and Queensland indigenous teams. [Read more…]
On 20 September, Kia Toa Hokitika had the pleasure of hosting the South Island Māori Netball tournament here in Hokitika. Attending clubs were Whangaraupō, Pīpīwharauroa (both from Ōtautahi) and Te Ahikāroa (from the Blenheim and Kaikōura Netball clubs).
The day began with a pōwhiri followed by a march from all participating teams and then the games. The weather held for us and as the day progressed we had time for a fun game of netball. Kaumātua, whānau and supporters alike, got out there to enjoy some game time and a few good laughs. [Read more…]
Zane Hopman competed against top tier fighters from around the globe at the IFMA Heavyweight Muaythai World Championships at Langkawi, Malaysia earlier this year, and came away a gold medalist.
Zane, who lives in the Wairarapa, faced off against a competitor from Kazakhstan in the first round of his scheduled heavyweight fights (under 91kg) and won by a unanimous decision. He also won his second round bout against Germany by unanimous decision before competing for gold against a kick-boxer from France. After three grueling rounds, Zane outclassed the Frenchman and came away with the gold medal. [Read more…]
Rebecca Lake (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Irakehu) has been named in the New Zealand Secondary School Under 16 representative football team, to tour Thailand in July.
Rebecca, the daughter of Tony and Sara Lake of Kaiapoi, has been selected in a squad of 18 players and is one of two students from Canterbury. The team will undertake a tour of Thailand in July, including games against the Thai national team. The tour is envisaged as a development step for players in the build-up to the FIFA Under 17 Women’s World Cup in Jordan 2016. [Read more…]
Pieter Bulling (Ngāi Tahu) will represent New Zealand in the Track Cycling Team Pursuit at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in July 2014. Pieter currently represents New Zealand in the Team Pursuit with Marc Ryan, Aaron Gate and Dillon Kennett (also Ngāi Tahu, who we have written about here previously). In 2013 the team was 6th in the Manchester World Cup, 4th in the Mexico World Cup and in February 2014 won Bronze at the Cali Track World Championships in Columbia. [Read more…]
Grace Tobin, 16 (Ngāi Tahu) of Auckland, has been selected to represent New Zealand in the Fina Women’s Youth Waterpolo World Championships to be held in Madrid, Spain at the end of August. Grace lives in Auckland, where she is a Year 12 student at Kristen School. [Read more…]
Dylan Kennett (Ngāi Tahu, Tuahiwi) is a 19-year-old making rapid progress as a New Zealand representative track cyclist. He is rated number one in the world for scratch racing by the world cycling governing body, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) and looks likely to ride for New Zealand at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games in July, as part of the men’s team pursuit and possibly the scratch race event. [Read more…]
On 8 March, whānau and friends from Te Rāpaki o Te Rakiwhakaputa participated in the Rāpaki triathlon, which included a 1km swim, 10km bike ride and a 3km run.
Twelve teams competed in this triathalon with all teams successfully completing the course. Some individuals extended themselves by completing all three disciplines.
Whānau wellbeing and whakawhanaukataka was the kaupapa o te rā. [Read more…]
Rangitane Thompson “Ekea te puhitaioreore.” During the last school holidays, Rangitane was invited to attend Touch New Zealand’s National Youth Academy alongside 70 of the country’s most promising boys and girls.
The academy was held in Rotorua over four days. While there, Rangitane received coaching on all aspects of the game from some of New Zealand’s top touch coaches. He gained a lot from the experience and will continue his development in the game. Rangitane would like to give a big thank you to Te Hapū o Ngāti Wheke for their support which helped make it possible for him to attend the academy. [Read more…]
Savanna Steele recently took part in the 2013 First Nations Touch Tournament in Gold Coast Australia in October 2013. She also competed in the NZ Māori Nationals and even though her team didn’t do as well as they wanted she had some personal success, as she was selected to represent New Zealand again in the New Zealand open mixed touch team. She has also been selected for the Under 16 youth team.
Congratulations also to Kalani Elder on his recent success on the rugby field. Kalani is the son of Carole Tomlin, the grandson of Rowena (nee Cleaver) and Ken Tomlin and the great-grandson of Johnston and Margaret Cleaver of Colac Bay.
Kalani was in the Southland under 65kg team that won the recent South Island tournament. Southland had not won the tournament since 2005. [Read more…]
Rulon Nutira and Kata McLean, with their whānau, have moved to Gundagai in New South Wales (two hours inland from Canberra). Deciding to make the most of an opportunity to have a lifestyle change, Rulon signed up to play rugby league for the Gundagai Tigers in the Country League. This comes on the back of a successful 2013 season where Rulon was man of the match in the Premier Grand Final, playing for his home club Hornby Panthers, who won against the Halswell Hornets.
He also represented Canterbury Māori, Canterbury (Southern) and the NZ Māori against an Indigenous side from Australia. It was after these games that he was offered a couple of Australian contracts. He chose Gundagai. The whānau are beginning to acclimatise to the much warmer weather and the girls have settled in to school life. All the whānau are mindful of keeping a watchful eye out for the wildlife, including snakes, which have already been spotted on the property. [Read more…]
In January, the first ever midgets crew from the Te Waka o Aoraki (South Island) region participated at the Waka Ama NZ national sprints championships. The team, called Hinehaka me Taoka and representing the Te Waka Pounamu Outrigger Canoe Club (based in Whakaraupō / Lyttelton Harbour), included Mihiroa, Meihana and Tainui Pauling, Whetu Marama and Nukutai Rupene and Haawi Whaitiri. They raced in the midget men’s grade for 6-10-year -olds and paddled in 2 events over 250 and 500 metres. [Read more…]
Crews from the Te Waka o Aoraki (South Island) region and Ōtautahi made a big impression at the 25th Annual Waka Ama NZ National Sprint Championships held at Lake Karapiro in January.
To begin with, the region had its first ever midgets (under 10 years) team compete at the nationals, represented by a full Kāi Tahu team from Te Waka Pounamu Outrigger Canoe Club.
The team included Mihiroa, Meihana and Tainui Pauling, Whetu Marama and Nukutai Rupene and Haawi Whaitiri.
Later in the week, the men’s crew from Te Waka Pounamu, called Aoraki Matatū and including Kāi Tahu kaihoe, Adrian Tukaki, Craig Pauling and Iaean Cranwell, won two silver medals – one in the premier men’s W6 (six person) 500 metre race, and the other in the W12 500 metre race. [Read more…]
Kahlei Stone-Kelly, 2, youngest son of April Stone and Meka Kelly, mokopuna of Karl and Bernie Stone and great-mokopuna of the late Priscilla and David Stone, has become a global sensation after a clip of him showing his skateboarding skills posted on YouTube went viral last month.
The whānau moved from Auckland to Melbourne in 2013 to provide the talented family of skate boarders bigger and better opportunities. All of Kahlei’s seven older siblings, aged 6-17 years are accomplished skateboarders and have won awards both in New Zealand and Australia. [Read more…]
Sheldon Pitama (Ngāi Tahu – Ngāi Tūāhuriri, Ngāti Wheke, Ngāti Kurī) has recently returned from Auckland where he played two tests against Australia for the New Zealand 18s’ Rugby League team.
The Kiwis won the first test 20 -18 and the Aussies won the second 32-28. Both games were exciting and close.
Prior to the match, the Kiwis formed a close brotherhood while on an eight-day camp in Whangarei and Auckland, ensuring that out on the field they were a united front against tough opponents.
“The Aussies are always going to come out strong and the last tests were no exception. They were big, strong and fit but we matched them all the way,” Sheldon said. [Read more…]
We recently took our netball girls to Kaikōura to play against teams from Rāpaki, Kaikōura and Hokitika. We left Tuahiwi School car park at 5.30pm, with five cars filled with our netball angels, kai and luggage. After a good trip with no stops, we got to our lodgings – the Fish Tank Lodge at 7pm. (There were about twenty steps to climb to the top of the stairs but it was no sweat with all the helpers I had; and it was great to have the boss at the bottom, waiting to catch me if I fell). We all had kai and Mel took the girls for a stroll up town. Then two or three ladies came in laden with trays and baskets of crayfish, pāua buns and other kai. It was a lovely welcome from Kaikōura, so the tāua started eating again. [Read more…]
Kaikōura hosted the South Island Pitama Cup recently. We turned on a nice summer day for our manuhiri from around the motu and everyone seemed happy. Kaikōura entered two clubs, Kaikōura and Te Ahikāroa. Brett Cowan opened the event with a mihimihi and karakia and the official opening was by Rino Tirikatene.
Kaikōura took out the marching trophy and junior netball trophy and retained the kapa haka trophy. Both clubs did very well and we all look forward to next year’s competition in Hokitika. [Read more…]
Voyaging enthusiast Jack Thatcher was guest speaker at the Ngāi Tahu ki Tauranga Moana bimonthly meeting in August. His kōrero about his ocean voyaging adventures was a great success despite the fact that the digital gear he was hoping to use illustrate his kōrero wasn’t working. His presentation style and the word pictures he painted more than made up for that.
The well-attended meeting was chaired by Uncle Joe Briggs and Jack spoke mostly about the haerenga ki Rapanui, the journey undertaken as a celebration of Hector Busby’s achievements and his desire to complete “the Polynesian triangle”. [Read more…]
William (Bill) George Kini, 9 July 1937 – 30 August 2012.
It’s a year ago this month since we said goodbye to our much loved dad, William (Bill) George Kini (Ngāti Māhaki – Makaawhio). The sadness comes in waves and envelopes us. We who were left behind to continue his legacy miss him so very much. Our hero, our adored, hardworking father who was once the darling of a nation and a beloved son of the people of Southland, now rests with his tīpuna. [Read more…]
Talor Kahu, the son of Mark Kahu (Ngāti Tura), and Marua Jan Kahu (née Te Au), (Ngāti Māmoe), of Rotorua, is no stranger to breaking sports records. Talor, 17, was badly injured playing rugby a few years ago and doctors thought he would never walk again but Talor never gave up and after succeeding in a number of other sports, he has returned to rugby and is now playing for the Western Heights High School First XV in Rotorua.
Talor (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Atawhiua), is a descendant of Te Horio. He is the great-great grandson of Pene Te Au and Tuihikau, and Jacob George Newton and Arihi Newton (Whaitiri). [Read more…]
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