Tēnā tātou katoa,
Kia mihia te mano tini kua mene ki kā Hawaiki katoa, rātou te tutūtaka o te puehu, te whiuka o te kupu i kā wā takatū ai rātou. Ki a Robert Bowkett, haere atu rā, moe mai, okioki mai, e kore rawa koe e warewaretia. Heoti, waiho ake rātou ki a rātou, tātou te urupā o rātou mā, kā waihotaka mai e hāpai nei i ō rātou wawata, tūmanako hoki.
Kua pūmāhu te oneone, kua pōkurukuru noa, kua noho te takata ki te whakatō kai me kā otaota. I kā raki o mua he wā kai kore tonu te kōaka. I kā marama tuatahi o kā māra kai, kāore anō kā hua kia tupu. Hai te kahuru rā anō kātahi anō ka tino nui te kai.
Ko te Ono, pua kōwhai ki uta, inaka ki tai.
Mauri ora ki a tātou.
Membership database
Just a reminder to update details as they change, and to encourage whānau to do the same. We have increasing numbers of rejecting emails and returned postal mail. It’s important you are all up-to-date with what’s happening, so please keep us up-to-date with any changes. Let us know by emailing the rūnanga office at [email protected]
Contributions
We welcome your contributions for Te Pānui Rūnaka. Please email any photos and information as it comes to light. Births, deaths, weddings, achievements, something you want to share. We can’t promise that we will be able to include everything but we will do our best. Again please email [email protected] or post a hard copy to Wairewa Rūnanga, PO Box 2845 Christchurch 8013.
Wairewa Rūnanga Hui-ā-Tau
On 6 October the Wairewa Rūnanga annual general meeting adopted a resolution to amend the rules to allow all full members to vote at a Special General Meeting (SGM) to amend the rules of the Incorporated Society.
The SGM will be advertised and convened at Wairewa Marae on Sunday 1 December. The purpose of the SGM is to adopt the full proposal of amendments to the rules of Wairewa Rūnanga Incorporated Society. A copy of the full proposal to amend the rules and our annual report can be emailed to you or posted by requesting this to [email protected] or leaving a message at our rūnanga office number 03 377 1513.
A whānau hui to kōrero about the proposed amendments will be held in Ōtautahi – 9am on Sunday 3 November. The venue is yet to be confirmed.
Theo Bunker, Te Aroha Thompson and Maire Kipa were appointed to join the executive committee for a three year term. At the next meeting of the rūnanga executive the chair of Wairewa Rūnanga will be confirmed.
At present the acting chair and secretary is John Boyles and the treasurer is Riki Nicholas. Other executive members are Paul Skipper, Charles Zimmerman and Iaean Cranwell.
Simon whānau hui
The Simon whānau gathered at Wairewa Marae the last weekend in September for the kawe mate for Mei Simon-Maghanoy. Her daughters, Harmony and Keisha Maghanoy, came from Hawai’i and California and other whānau from Tai Tokerau and Ōtepoti gathered for the kawe mate and family reunion.
Mei was the eldest grandchild of George and Edna Simon, the only daughter of Riria Pirika. Although Mei lived all her adult life in Hawai’i she passed away in Whangarei on 28 September 2010 from a brain tumour at the age of 51. According to Mei’s wishes the whānau returned to Hawaii with her ashes in July 2011.
A new kōhatu for our tipuna rakatira Heremaia Mautai was also installed in the urupā.
It was a wonderful weekend of whanaungatanga, manaakitanga and kotahitanga which will leave everyone with lasting memories.
Yvonne Kaan, Katarina Blair, Aorangi Hetaraka and Lou Snowden.