Post by Kiwi Frontline on Feb 4, 2019 16:27:22 GMT 12
TUHORONUKU NOT RIGHT FOR NGĀPUHI SETTLEMENT – LITTLE
Treaty Negotiations Minister Andrew Little will be meeting with representatives of Ngāpuhi and its hapū to find an alternative to Tuhoronuku while he is at Waitangi this year, he says.
The country's biggest iwi, Ngāpuhi rejected a revised mandate for settlement talks when more than 70 of its hundred-plus hapū gave it the thumbs down in December.
The National government accepted the mandate known as Tuhoronuku, inititated by rūnanga leader Sonny Tau nearly ten years ago.
But Mr Little said the latest vote had made it clear hapū did not want to settle under that banner, or the most recent so-called evolved version.....
www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/381649/tuhoronuku-not-right-for-ngapuhi-settlement-little
Treaty Negotiations Minister Andrew Little will be meeting with representatives of Ngāpuhi and its hapū to find an alternative to Tuhoronuku while he is at Waitangi this year, he says.
The country's biggest iwi, Ngāpuhi rejected a revised mandate for settlement talks when more than 70 of its hundred-plus hapū gave it the thumbs down in December.
The National government accepted the mandate known as Tuhoronuku, inititated by rūnanga leader Sonny Tau nearly ten years ago.
But Mr Little said the latest vote had made it clear hapū did not want to settle under that banner, or the most recent so-called evolved version.....
www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/381649/tuhoronuku-not-right-for-ngapuhi-settlement-little