29
Mar 2015

Waihao monthly meetings

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The executive monthly meeting takes place at Waihao Marae on the second Sunday of each month with a whānau meeting every two months. The dates for 2015 are as follows:

  • 12 April: executive, special general and whānau meeting
  • 10 May: executive meeting
  • 14 June: executive and whānau meeting
  • 12 July: executive meeting
  • 9 August: executive and whānau meeting
  • 13 September: executive meeting
  • 11 October: executive and whānau meeting
  • 8 November: executive meeting.

All members are welcome to attend, so please feel free to come along and find out what is happening. If the dates unexpectedly change, we will notify whānau as soon as possible.

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25
Mar 2015

Te Rūnanga o Waihao

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Kia ora koutou, firstly we would like to acknowledge the sterling work that has been carried out at Waihao Marae by Steve and Derylie Boyd, office manager and Jill of all trades over many years.

Steve was instrumental in organising, leading, and helping with projects such as recreating and building our awesome new wharekai, creating and maintaining the Waihao website, Google group communications, Waimate Museum project (check out the website for that one) and Te Haumi – our whale stranding, to name but a few of our significant projects over the last few years. Not to mention the kaumātua trips, while Derylie ably assisted in keeping the home fires burning. [Read more…]

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17
Sep 2014

Te Rūnanga o Waihao

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Annual general meeting

Our annual general meeting will be held on Sunday 12 October 2014. The marae opens at 11am, kai will be at midday and the annual general meeting will begin at 1pm sharp.

RSVP (for catering and transport) by Monday 6 October by calling us on: 0800 924 4260. See http://www.waihao.maori.nz/webapps/i/86546/198472/564130 for a draft agenda.

Congratulations

Matt Wylie (a descendant of Pakinui and William Harpur), has recently returned from Europe and Australia, where he presented some of his doctorate research into aquaculture at various scientific conferences. [Read more…]

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19
Aug 2014

Te Rūnanga o Waihao

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Rā whānau

Ivy Mairoki Patience Mary McGaughey, née Benson (Peneamene) celebrated her 94th birthday on Sunday 29 July.

Family and friends gathered together to celebrate Ivy’s big day and she was presented with a beautiful bouquet of flowers by Graeme Lane on behalf of Waihao whānau.

Ivy was born in Ashburton on 27 July 1920. She is the eldest of two children born to James Paiki Peneamene and Anna Crocker.

Ivy’s childhood was spent in Parnassus, where she started school and where her father worked on the railways. The family moved to Waikari in North Canterbury, then to Christchurch where Ivy attended Phillipstown School. Holidays were spent at her Aunty Hannah Benson’s home, where Ivy recalls gathering flax and making mats – as well as enjoying goose eggs and eels. The eels were caught following a walk of approximately four miles to The Box, where eels were caught both by hand and by the use of a whitebait net under The Box. Whitebaiting was also a large part of life. [Read more…]

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Jul 2014

Te Rūnanga o Waihao

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Congratulations

On 7 May Te Rūnanga o Waihao member and former rūnanga executive member, Michelle Heath Young graduated with her Masters of Law with First Class Honours from the University of Auckland. Michelle also has a Law Degree and First Class Honours degree in Art History and Theory from the University of Otago.

Michelle has had a career in the art industry before practicing law. She worked in the banking and finance teams of two large national law firms, Simpson Grierson and DLA Phillips Fox. Michelle is currently a corporate counsel for ANZ based in Auckland. She specialises in leveraged finance transactions in the commercial and agricultural sectors as well as healthcare and retirement village financing. [Read more…]

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19
Mar 2014

Te Rūnanga o Waihao

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Congratulations

Sarah Thomas must be congratulated for her graduation from Otago Polytechic, where she was awarded her Diploma in Outdoor Leadership and Management at the end of 2013.

The award ceremony for Māori graduates took place at the Sargood Center at Logan Park on 5 December and was opened by Huata Holmes. After the presentations graduates, whānau and friends enjoyed kai. [Read more…]

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14
Mar 2014

Award winner

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Rebekah Thomas was the Kaikorai Valley College recipient of the 2013 Mana Pounamu Young Achievers Awards.  This award came about through the vision of the late Alva Kapa and is a Ngāi Tahu initiative supported by Kā Papatipu Rūnaka ki Araiteuru, The Otago Polytechnic, the Ministry of Education, the University of Otago and Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu and other supporting sponsors. Rebekah’s whānau were delighted. [Read more…]

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Feb 2014

Te Rūnanga o Waihao

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Kaumātua hui

A kaumātua hui will be held on Friday 28 February at Waihao Marae from 10.30am to 3.30pm.

We will be appointing officers at our next meeting, as well as celebrating some great fellowship together.
See you all there. Travel to and from Dunedin and Christchurch is provided. Please contact office for details of travel. Tentative dates for our other 2014 kaumātua hui 2014 are June, September, November. Actual dates will be decided at the February hui.

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31
Dec 2013

Revitalising language

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Kāika Reo ki Te Tihi o Maru are a rōpū of whānau who are committed to revitalising the intergenerational reo of our tūpuna for our tamariki and mokopuna. We meet each Sunday afternoon between 2pm and 4pm, taking turns to host the whānau rōpū in our homes.

On the weekend of 2-3 November, our rōpū visited Waihao Marae. This was a special noho for many of our whānau, who have ancestral connections to Waihao. Two of our tāua, Libya Foote and Rosina Hix shared many memories of their earlier years.

We had a superb welcome from Wendy Heath and Ūpoko Rūnaka, Te Wera King. They made us feel so welcome and shared their stories of the history of the marae and their whānau. [Read more…]

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Dec 2013

An experience to remember

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For Rebekah Thomas of Dunedin, going on a recent Outward Bound course was one of the best experiences she has had. “It was a part of my life that I will never forget; it has helped me to become a better person,” she says.

Rebekah attended the Outward Bound ‘Mind, Body and Soul’ course at Anikiwa in Queen Charlotte Sound, following in the footsteps of her older brother and sister, David and Sarah, who attended earlier courses.

In David’s case this led to an outdoor education instructor and leadership course at the Otago Polytechnic, followed by a science degree at Otago University and a temporary position as head of department for outdoor education at Kaikorai Valley Intermediate in Dunedin.

Sarah went from the Outward Bound course to Otago Polytechnic, where she is also doing an outdoor education and leadership course. [Read more…]

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24
Oct 2013

Just another day at the office

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Last Monday, on my way to work, I received a phone call from our chair, Graeme Lane. “There’s a whale on the beach at Lake Wainono,” he said. “I’ll meet you down at the Studholme milk factory.”

A local farmer, Gary Bruce, had stumbled across the whale while moving machinery between farms. Within the hour we had Anne Dodds (Aunty Sis), Anne’s husband Bill, Graeme Lane, Gary and Geoff Bruce, along with their father Murray, Steve Harraway from the Department of Conservation (DOC) and yours truly on site. Access to the area was four wheel drive only; it’s not easy terrain.

Aunty Sis gave the whale a karakia, which we followed with a careful inspection of the site. The whale was right way up and appeared to have been dead when it was washed ashore. DOC subsequently told us they had had reports of a dead whale being sighted off the Timaru coast around 10 days prior. After some discussion it was agreed that we would do what we could to recover the jawbones, as they would make an impressive entrance way. Initial measurements suggested that they were more than four metres long. [Read more…]

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Oct 2013

Te Rūnanga o Waihao

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Freshwater fish recovery plan review

Tēnā koutou,
Ko Aoraki te mauka, ko Waitaki te awa, ko Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha, Kāi Tahu kā iwi, ko Kāti Hāteatea te hapū, ko Hāteatea te tipuna, ko Uruao, Araiteuru, Takitimu kā waka, ko Waihao te marae, ko tēnei ahau Matthew Wylie, kai Ōtepoti tōku kāika ināianei.

I have recently been appointed to the role of the Ngāi Tahu representative for the non-migratory and large galaxiid (whitebait) recovery plans. [Read more…]

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30
Aug 2013

Matariki at Waihao

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Waimate District educational organisations, from early childcare centres to the local high school, all took part in this year’s Matariki celebrations in June.

Last year, when we organised this festival, we were overwhelmed by the response. Over 500 people turned up to support our tamariki and rangatahi and watch them perform kapa haka. So this year, we moved to a bigger venue, and were hosted by Waimate High School.

On 28 June, the Waimate community was welcomed to the venue by Upoko Rūnanga Tewera King, in a mihi whakatau. He then took up the microphone and introduced the youngest kapa haka performers. All the rōpū performed with passion and it was heart-warming to see the excellent performances by our tamariki. [Read more…]

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20
Aug 2013

Te Rūnanga o Waihao

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Congratulations

Janelle Wilson (Ngāi Tahu – Ngāti Tūrākatahi, Ngāti Tūteahuka; Te Whakatōhea) recently graduated from Massey University in Palmerston North with a graduate diploma in primary teaching. Janelle, who affiliates to Waihao Marae through Jane Harpur and Arthur Gibbs to Pakinui and William Harpur, also gained a degree in Māori Visual Arts in 2012. [Read more…]

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Jun 2013

Duck season opens

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Ducks, caravans and kai cookers

The Thomas whānau have always returned home to Waihao for the duck season, to replenish their larder and to take ducks for those who do not get the opportunity to hunt. So it was initially sad news for us to hear that the marae had been booked out by the South Canterbury branch of the New Zealand Motor Caravan Association at the start of the season. We have hunted ducks in the same location for many generations and it looked as though the annual trip would have to be called off. [Read more…]

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29
Apr 2013

Future of the Waihao Box

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Waihao committee members met with Environment Canterbury engineering staff members, Bruce Scarlett and Ross Vessy, at the Waihao box on 11 March, to discuss matters relating to the Box and its future.

Waihao’s manager Steve Boyd, Graeme and David Thomas and Jennifer Thomas and her partner Angus travelled to the Box and were met there by Graeme Lane, our chair. Local farmer representative Mick Lamming also joined the group. [Read more…]

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Apr 2013

Te Rūnanga o Waihao

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Oral archives
We are gathering the stories of our people, prioritising those of kaumātua. Do you or someone you know want to contribute to the story of our people? Please contact the office for further information. [Read more…]

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Apr 2013

Opening of the Bill O’Donnell Pioneer Sawmill

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The official opening of the Bill O’Donnell Pioneer Sawmill at Bushtown, in Waimate, took place on Thursday 21 February.Bushtown could be said to be Waimate’s answer to Shantytown on the West Coast and once completed, it promises to be a wonderful attraction for locals and tourists. There are many thousands of native trees and shrubs planted throughout the site. The most important feature of the site is the Bushtown sawmill, which was originally located at Ōwaka in the Catlins. It was then purchased by Bill O’Donnell, who operated it on his property. When the concept of Bushtown was suggested, a committee was formed and the sawmill owner was approached to see if he would consider parting with it. It was sold to Bushtown for the grand sum of $100. After a great deal of hard work the sawmill was assembled, contained in a replica pioneer sawmill building and reinstated to full working condition. It was formally opened on 21 February. Committee members of the Waihao whānau were invited to the opening. [Read more…]

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19
Mar 2013

Ka pai tamariki mā

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Congratulations

Kelly Laugesen’s granddaughters had a great year at school last year. Summah Laugesen (year 8) at Kirkwood Intermediate was awarded the Kirkwood Intermediate Speech Trophy. Summah also won the speech competition the year before. In 2012 she went on to represent Kirkwood Intermediate at the Rotary finals and came third. [Read more…]

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10
Mar 2013

Waihao school holiday programme

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School holiday programmes

During the term school holidays Te Rūnanga o Waihao intends to hold school holiday programmes for rangatahi aged five and up.

Those who are interested are invited to register their interest. The programmes will generally be run during the first week of the holidays ending on Friday. Parents will be responsible for any arrangements for travel to and from Waihao. [Read more…]

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