Wai 2549
Date of SOC: 11 December 2015
Claimant: Pereri Mahanga, Mitai Paraone-Kawiti, Violet Sade, Ngaire Brown and Winiwini Kingi
Representing: Te Waiariki, Ngāti Kororā and Ngāti Taka Pari Hapū Iwi
The claimants assert:
That they are not a hapū of Ngātiwai, and that their three hapū (Te Waiariki, Ngāti Kororā and Ngāti Takapari) maintain a defined manawhenua which is exclusive, autonomous and independent of Ngātiwai.
It is contrary to the genealogical, geographical and geopolitical facts of history in that the claimants are not Ngātiwai; and the claimants for those claims did not consent to their inclusion in the NTB’s DoM
The claimants assert that they have suffered and will continue to suffer the following significant and irreversible prejudice:
The Crown’s disregard of the hapū rangatiratanga of Te Waiariki, Ngāti Kororā and Ngāti Takapari hapū.
The Crown’s attempt to achieve, though the Ngātiwai mandate, what it was unable to achieve through the Ngāpuhi mandate.
The Crown being a party to the re-writing of the whakapapa of Te Waiariki, Ngāti Kororā and Ngāti Takapari hapū.
The potential loss of the ability to seek binding recommendations from the Tribunal with regards to Glenbervie Forest and the deterioration of relationships between the claimants, hapū and Ngātiwai.
•The claimants note that there are no other remedies available to them