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28th
FEB

Remembering Ralph Hotere

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The Listener asked as many people as we could think of – friends, art-world figures, writers (in many cases a combination of all three) – for their memories of and thoughts about Ralph Hotere, who died on Sunday, aged 81. These are the first of them, but we will be adding more as the week goes on, so do check back. Billy Apple, artist, friend: “I bumped into Ralph Hotere and [his then wife] Cilla McQueen outside King’s Cross Station, London, in the early 60s. We went for a beer. They brought me up to date with the New Zealand art scene and in particular Dunedin’s, which I knew nothing about. Ralph was instrumental in my showing at Dunedin’s Bosshard…

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28th

Lawyer confident activist’s appeal bid will get nod

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The lawyer for Maori activist Tame Iti is confident his application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court against his conviction and sentence will be successful. Yesterday, Iti was welcomed on to Hukanui Marae in Gordonton just a couple of hours after he was released from Waikeria Prison having served nine months of a 2-year sentence on six firearms charges. The charges stemmed from a police raid in the Urewera Ranges in 2007 that led to the arrest of 18 activists and saw Iti found guilty in the High Court at Auckland over alleged military-style camps. His lawyer, Russell Fairbrother, yesterday said he had applied for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court. “There are two considerations; one is…

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28th

Leaked document threatens Far North schools

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A leaked document revealing that a Kaitaia Maori health manager was sacked from her last job for dishonesty threatens to sabotage an ambitious bid for an $800,000 “tele-medicine” scheme for remote Far North schools. The document, delivered to the Herald and to the Northern Advocate, says the manager of Kaitaia’s new Government-funded school health service for children with rheumatic fever and skin infections, Lisa McNab, was sacked last August by iwi health provider Te Hauora o Te Hiku o Te Ika. Hauora chief executive Bill Halkyard confirmed that Mrs McNab was dismissed for “fabricating” a $3000 invoice to the Ministry of Health for work that was not done, and for using a company name to conceal the name of the…

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27th
FEB

Released Iti says he’s a political prisoner

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Tame Iti says he will continue to regard himself as a political prisoner. The Tuhoe activist was jailed on firearms offences related to police raids in Te Urewera National Park in the Eastern Bay of Plenty in 2007 and released from Waikeria Prison on Wednesday morning. He has served a third of his two-and-a-half-year sentence. Te Rangikaiwhiria Kemara, Urs Signer and Emily Bailey were also convicted regarding the raids. Iti held a media conference on the Hukanui Marae near Hamilton following his release and told reporters he was a political prisoner of the state while in jail and would remain one at large until his sentence is completed in October 2014. He held no resentment about being in jail nine…

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27th

Supreme Court Maori water decision due at 3pm

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The Supreme Court will today deliver its decision on the Maori Council’s bid to block the sale of Mighty River Power at 3pm. The Maori Council bypassed the Court of Appeal and took its case directly to the Supreme Court after losing in the High Court in December last year. It argued that the sale of Mighty River Power and other power companies before issues around what ownership rights Maori may have over freshwater and geothermal resources was a breach of the Treaty of Waitangi. Prime Minister John Key said last week that as long as the court delivered its decision this month, and it was favourable to the Crown, the Mighty River Power sale, the first under his Government’s…

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27th

Tame Iti released early on parole

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Tame Iti’s release from prison feels like the nearly six-year ordeal is nearing an end, his son says. Iti was released on parole about 5.30am today having served nine months of a two and a half year prison sentence. He was found guilty during a trial last year of six firearms charges and not guilty of four, stemming from a police raid in the Urewera Ranges that led to the arrest of 18 Tuhoe activists. “Sure it’s been nine months in jail, but it’s actually been six years of having to deal with the case in general so we feel like we’re finally getting towards the end of it,” Iti’s son, Wairere Iti, told Newstalk ZB this morning. “There’s still…

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26th
FEB

Tiny marae set for big tangi

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In Mitimiti yesterday, John Martin was at the urupa, the cemetery where his cousin Ralph Hotere will lie when his body is flown by helicopter to the beachside marae. The spot is about 12km north of the Hokianga Harbour and Mr Martin, 72, spent the morning in his digger making sure a couple of jobs were done, up on the high hill that looks out on to the Tasman Sea. The Matihetihe Marae kaumatua has his hands full making sure the tangi for New Zealand’s most famous artist runs smoothly. But he’s used to big funerals. Today he’ll go fishing. “I sent a message out to the lads: Go ahead with the beef, we can hang it in the chillers….

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26th

Judging to begin for Maori excellence in farming award

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Judging begins this weekto find the best Maori sheep and beef farming operation in New Zealand. The Ahuwhenua Trophy which was first competed for 80 years ago, is the premier award for individual Maori farmers and incorporations. The competition was started in 1932 by Sir Apirana Ngata, with help from the Governor General Lord Bledisloe. Organising committee chairman Kingi Smiler said it’s fitting the current Governor General will present the trophy to this year’s winner at a gala dinner in Napier. Mr Smiler said being able to celebrate 80 years of the competition provides a real chance to honour not only the 2013 winner but many past winners who have made a significant contribution to farming over many years. He…

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26th

Plight of Turakina revealed

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The Government has been advised that a Maori boarding school in the Rangitikei district near Whanganui came close to shutting at the end of 2012. The future of Turakina Maori Girls’ College in Marton has been raised in documents written by the Ministry of Education and released to Radio New Zealand under the Official Information Act. According to the papers compiled last year, the board of proprietors was concerned about the school’s financial viability and the condition of its buildings. It stated the college might close at the end of 2012. However, the school remains open. College principal Terehia Channings agrees the school was at financial risk last year, but said it is now in better shape. She said the…

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25th
FEB

Hotere let art speak for itself

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Artist Ralph Hotere always preferred to let his art speak for itself. “There are few things I can say about my work that are better than saying nothing,” he once said. With his death yesterday, art commentators and New Zealanders from all walks of life have had something to say about the man and his work. ‘He was our greatest living contemporary artist. I don’t think there’s much doubt about that,” Dunedin arts curator Peter Entwisle said yesterday. “Frances Hodgkins was the first New Zealand artist to really break through international boundaries and Colin McCahon came a generation later. Ralph was the next in line.” “Ralph Hotere. A truly great artist one of our greatest and, like Colin McCahon, a…

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25th

Tainui still in division over $70m

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Tainui Group Holdings won’t be receiving $70 million worth of new government cash from Waikato-Tainui despite calls from ex-Fonterra leader Sir Henry van der Heyden for that to happen. Sir Henry is the chairman of Waikato-Tainui’s commercial arm and this month called for the millions received at the end of last year, related to the tribe’s 1995 treaty settlement and known as a relativity payment, to go to TGH for management. TGH already manages assets worth $800 million. But Tom Roa, chairman of the tribe’s executive board, Te Arataura, who had advocated for the cash to be used to invest in entrepreneurship among grassroots people, told the Herald he hadn’t changed his position about the money’s use. Consultation was underway…

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25th

Te Waka Huia wins Te Matatini 2013

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Te Waka Huia have claimed their fifth Te Matatini Kapa Haka Festival title. The Auckland based team equalled Waihirere’s record for most titles won by a group. The winners were announced in the sweltering heat at the Rotorua International Stadium today. Waka Huia last won the title in Tauranga in 2009 and had to overcome a spirited top nine teams’ finals which included Te Arawa group and 2012 defending champions Te Mataarae i Orehu. Although the Rotorua group managed to win top male leader for Wetini Mitai-Ngatai as well as best haka in the aggregate round the group didn’t make the top five with Te Whanau a Apanui second overall and Tu Te Manawa Maurea, Te Iti Kahurangi and Whangara…

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