June 05, 2018
Taurangamoana will resist Hauraki by all means possible
CHARLIE TAWHIAO INTERVIEW TE REO MAORI
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Tauranga Moana iwi Ngai te Rangi has turned up the heat under its simmering battle with Pare Hauraki, with chair Charlie Tawhiao accusing the collective’s leadership of being stooges for large Chinese and Auckland property development businesses.
The shot comes after a debate on TVNZ’s Marae programme in which Hauraki negotiator Paul Majurey accused Mr Tawhiao of having a completely different view of history than the Waitangi Tribunal, crown historians, and all other tribes involved.
Mr Majurey says Hauraki’s claim is against the crown, and elders decided last week there will be no talks with Ngai Te Rangi until the crown has signed its deed of settlement.
Treaty Negotiations Minister Andrew Little held off signing to give the parties time to talk, but says there now appears to be a stalemate.
Mr Tawhiao says Hauraki should not be getting settlement redress in the Te Puna-Katikati block.
"Any tribe that decides they want to come and occupy Tauranga is going to have to deal with us and that's exactly what's happening now. We will not allow any other tribe to move into Tauranga and we will resist by all means possible," he says.
Mr Tawhiao says Ngai Te Rangi is researching the involvement of large Chinese and Auckland property development businesses in lobbying MPs to get the Hauraki Collective deal across the line, and it believes Hauraki people are pawns in a much larger game that involves large sums of money to be made by people who have no connection with Maori culture.
He also accused Hauraki of reviving the iwi Te Patukirikiri to give Mr Majurey a casting vote over other Marutuahu and Hauraki iwi within the collectives.
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