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Te Hapū o Te Wakaminenga Wahi o Maniapoto Tribal Government Te Tai Hauauru Aotearoa Nu Tireni,

PO Box 27096 Hamilton, New Zealand Phone 027871304441 Email admin@govt.maori.nz and maniapoto@govt.maori.nz www.maniapoto.govt.maori.nz/homem.html www.govt.maori.nz

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Te Hapū o Te Wakaminenga Wahi o Maniapoto Maniapoto Tribal Government Te Tai Hauauru

PO Box 27096 HAMILTON, 3257, Phone 0278713044, admin@govt.maori.nz or maniapoto@govt.maori.nz , www.maniapoto.govt.maori.nz/homem.html www.govt.maori.nz

7 November, 2019 Ref THWWM: AMB

TO:

Paula Southgate, Mayor Hamilton City

Council, info@hcc.govt.nz Hamilton

City Council, Private Bag 3010,

Hamilton 3240,New Zealand,

Richard Briggs CEO@hcc.govt.nz,

Hamilton City Council, Private Bag

3010, Hamilton 3240,New Zealand,

Nathan Savage Principal Planner

Infrastructure Hamilton City Council .

southernlinks@hcc.govt.nz ,

Chief Executive Garry Dyet

Garry.Dyet@waipadc.govt.nz ,

Manager - Strategic Partnerships Gary

Knighton

Gary.Knighton@waipadc.govt.nz ,

Gavin Ion Chief Executive Phone: 07

824 5878 Email:

gavin.ion@waidc.govt.nz ,

Waikato Regional Council

Vaughan.Payne@waikatoregion.govt.

nz ,

Mark RatcliffeInterim Chief Executive

NZTA info@nzta.govt.nz ,

Robyn Fisher – Director Office of the

Chief Executive

NZTA info@nzta.govt.nz ,

Director, Kobus Mentz, Amberfields,

info@amberfield.co.nz ,

Heritage NZ Area Manager

infolowernorthern@heritage.org.nz , Taroi Rawiri Environmental Manager

Waikato Tainui

Taroi.rawiri@tainui.co.nz ,

Tainui Group Holdings Chris Joblin or

Mike Pohio enquiries@tgh.co.nz ,

CC. Jacinda Ardern Prime Minister

New Zealand Government

j.ardern@ministers.govt.nz ,

Hon Nanaia Mahuta Minister of Maori

Development, and Local Government

n.mahuta@ministers.govt.nz

Parliament Buildings Wellington ,

Hon Kelvin Davis, Minister of Maori

Crown Relations

Kelvin.Davis@parliament.govt.nz,

Tiwha Bell Maniapoto Trust Board office@maniapoto.co.nz Her Excellency The Right Honourable Dame Patsy Reddy Governor-General of New Zealand Government House Private Bag 39995 Wellington Mail Centre Lower Hutt 5045 C/- Gregory.Baughen@govthouse.govt.nz

NOTICE OF RAHUI PLACED ON AMBERFIELD DEVELOPMENTS,

PEACOCKES SUBDIVISION, & SOUTHERN LINKS PROJECT

TAMAHERE AND RUKUHIA NGĀTI MANIAPOTO LANDS KNOWN AS

MANGAKOTUKUTUKU, TIREKE, MANGAWHERO, TE MAIRE AND PUKERIMU

On 19 October 2019 officials from the Sovereign Te Hapu o Te Wakaminenga Waahi o Maniapoto

Tribal Government placed a Rahui Tapu ( https://www.facebook.com/events/2486740794766585/)

over our whenua of Nga hapu o Ngati Maniapoto at Tamahere and Rukuhia also known as

Mangakotukutuku, Tireke, Mangawhero, Te Maire and Pukerimu prohibiting Amberfield

Developments and their agents, Peacocks subdivision, the Southern links project and the

Te Hapū o Te Wakaminenga Wahi o Maniapoto Tribal Government Te Tai Hauauru Aotearoa Nu Tireni,

PO Box 27096 Hamilton, New Zealand Phone 027871304441 Email admin@govt.maori.nz and maniapoto@govt.maori.nz www.maniapoto.govt.maori.nz/homem.html www.govt.maori.nz

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Hamilton City Council from any further development of their housing estate development on the

said whenua.

This development is in direct breach of our Ture Tikanga o Te Whenua, in breach of our

customary rights, native title undisturbed possession, (article 2 Te Tiriti o Waitangi reo text) and in

breach of our constitution He Wakaputanga 1835 the right to govern over, manage and exercise

our sovereignty over our whenua, by the said parties failure to consult with Nga hapu o Ngati

Maniapoto and failure to obtain consent to develop a housing project on our tupuna

ancestral whenua.

The development project is on the historic Hingakaka battle site and home of our tupuna Turongo

and Mahinarangi as well as several Maniapoto pa sites, urupa, many puna wai, ngahere, harakeke

and food resources. Ecological damage on the Waikato river and its environs is imminent

notwithstanding the effects of substantial economic deprivation to Ngāti Maniapoto hapū and

whānau through loss of land use and access to resources. This subdivision is on land that was

illegally taken by the NZ Company Government for a Militia settlement in the 1860s.

The following pānui was published in the Waitomo News on 24 October, 2019 and the Waikato

and the Waikato Times 26 October, 2019;

Te Hapū o Te Wakaminenga Wahi o Maniapoto Tribal Government Te Tai Hauauru Aotearoa Nu Tireni,

PO Box 27096 Hamilton, New Zealand Phone 027871304441 Email admin@govt.maori.nz and maniapoto@govt.maori.nz www.maniapoto.govt.maori.nz/homem.html www.govt.maori.nz

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Before we placed the rahui on the whenua my young Maniapoto nephew Te Kopa Eketone said to

me, “where is my nannies pa?’ He of course was speaking of Nukuhau Pa sited in the area where

Amberfield's housing estate is being developed.

As Maniapoto still retains their mana whenua rangatiratanga the development stands as a gross

injustice to our rangatahi whose ancestral heritage has been seized by false claims of conquered

lands by the NZ government.

The Rahui is in place until further notice or until such times as the aforementioned parties have

consulted and or obtained consent from the Sovereign Nga Hapu of Ngati Maniapoto.

All aforementioned parties whom this notice is addressed to are required to contact Te

Wakaminenga wahi o Maniapoto Tribal Government representatives by 12 November, 2019 in

order that a hui can be arranged for consultation with ngā hapū mana whenua of Ngāti Maniapoto.

Refusal to meet, will cause affected Ngāti Maniapoto hapu to take further action, for effective

remedies.

Contact 0278713044 or admin@govt.maori.nz www.maniapoto.govt.maori.nz

Heoi ano

Arikinui Ripekatangi

Te Hapu o Te Wakaminenga wahi o Maniapoto o Nu Tireni

Maniapoto Tribal Government

Te Tai Hauauru Rohe of the Maori Government of Aotearoa Nu Tireni

Mobile 0278713044 Email: ripekatangi@ govt.maori.nz