Koromakinga me ngā Uara
Koromakinga me ngā Uara
When Lord and Lady Bledisloe first walked on the Grounds of Waitangi in 1932 they looked beyond the run-down buildings and overgrown gardens and envisioned a future where the significance of Waitangi was properly recognised. This was a dream many Māori had been holding onto for decades.
I hoko mai ngā Bledisloe i Te Papawhenua o Waitangi e 506 heketea te rahi kātahi ka takoha mai ki te whenua, kia whakaurua ki roto i tētahi tarahiti, kia whakahaerengia e te Waitangi National Trust Board ko ōna mema nō ētahi whānau whai hononga hītori ki te Tiriti o Waitangi I tū tētahi hui hira i Te Tī Marae me Waitangi i Pēpuere 1934 ki te whakanui i te tukunga ōkawa o te takoha whenua a ngā Bledisloe, mō tōna 10,000 Māori mai i ngā tōpito e whā o te whenua i reira ki te whakahōnore me te whakanui i taua koha o rāua
Our Vision - Te Pae Tawhiti
He Whenua Rangatira – He Tohu Matatū o te Rangatiratanga
Our Mission - Te Kaupapa
Titiro ki ngā Taumata o te Moana – Hei Whakaahua i te Kī Taurangi Mutunga Kore o Waitangi ki te Ao
Ō Mātou Tino Uara
Whakamānawa / Reverence
Whakarite
Manaakitanga
Tika
Kaitiakitanga
Whakarerekē
Rangatiratanga
Forming the Waitangi
National Trust
I whakatūria te Waitangi National Trust e tētahi Ture Pāremata ki te whakahaere i te papawhenua. Nā tana pukapuka tarahiti, he mea tuhi i te 1932, i whakatakoto ngā whāinga mā te Poari Kaitiaki me te Papawhenua o Waitangi. Ka whai wāhi ki ēnei te whakatika me te whakarauora i te Wharenoho o mua tērā, i runga anō i tā Rore Bledisloe tono, i tapaina anō ko te Whare Tiriti.
Anei ngā mema o te Poari tuatahi:
- ko ngā kaitakoha, Rore me Reiri Bledisloe, he mema ā, mate noa
- Vernon Reed
- ko te Pirimia George Forbes
- Ko Alfred Ransom, ko te Minita e whakahaere ana i te Scenery Preservation Act
- Ko Tā Āpirana Ngata, te Minita Take Māori
- Ko Kenneth Williams, he mema no te whānau o te mihingare Williams
- ko Riri Maihi Kawiti e whakakanohi ana i ngā whānau o Hōne Heke, rātou ko Maihi Kawiti, ko Tāmati Wāka Nene, ko Pōmare
- ko te Kīngi Māori, Te Rata Mahuta
- ko Tā Robert Heaton Rhodes, e whakakanohi ana i ngā iwi o Te Waipounamu
- ko Tā Francis Dillon Bell, e whakakanohi ana i te whānau o Edward Gibbon Wakefield, te kaiwhakatū o te New Zealand Company
- ko Gordon Coates, he Pirimia o mua.
Tae noa mai ki tēnei rā ko ngā mema o te poari he kanohi o ngā tāngata kua whai hononga tika ki tēnei pae hītori. Kei te Kāwana Tianara o te wā te motika ki te kōwhiri kia noho hei Whakaruruhau o te Tarahiti.
Hei kaitiaki kei te Waitangi National Trust Board te haepapa ki te:
- Tautiaki i te papawhenua o te Waitangi National Trust me ana taonga hei Tūrangawaewae mō ngā tāngata katoa o Aotearoa.
- Whakahaere i te whakawhanaketanga toitū o te whenua me ngā rawa o te Tarahiti mā te tautiakitanga, te whāomoomo me te whakahaere e tika ana
- Rauhī, tiaki me te whakaatu i ngā taonga e tiakina ana e te Tarahiti
- Whakanui i te māramatanga ki te Tiriti o Waitangi, tōna hira hei puka tūāpapa mō te whenua, me tōna pānga haere tonu ki tō tātou oranga ā-whenua
- Whakawhanake me te whakahāngai i ōna tikanga e pā ana ki te urunga me te whakamahinga o te pae i hainatia rā te Tiriti o Waitangi, o Te Whare Rūnanga, me te waka Ngātokimatawhaorua
- Ensure the Waitangi National Trust estate is used appropriately to commemorate the first signing of the Treaty.
The Treaty Ground
founding: Bledisloe gift
Whai muri i te hainatanga o te Tiriti i te tau 1840 ko te whānau Puhipi ngā rangatira o te Whare Tiriti. He mea hoko atu te whare me te papawhenua huri rauna e Akinihi Puhipi i te 1882, i te tekau tau i muri i te matenga o tōna hoa rangatira. I ngā tau ka pahemo ka tauheke haere ngā rawa o te papawhenua, ko te mutunga iho ka noho hei whenua pāmu pāhekeheke noa o Aotearoa. Ko te āhua rā, i maumaharatia te hira o taua wāhi e te Māori anake. I te tau 1878 i tuku petihana ētahi tāngata nō ngā iwi o te takiwā ki te kāwanatanga tērā i tono kia whakatūria he whare rūnanga whakamaumahara, erangi i whakanau te Kāwanatanga.
In the early 20th century, local MP and lawyer Vernon Reed took up the cause for greater appreciation of Waitangi as an important site for all New Zealanders. He had many knock backs but in 1932, when the Governor-General and his wife, Lord and Lady Bledisloe, were holidaying in the Bay of Islands, Reed encouraged them to visit Waitangi and see this historic place for themselves. The Bledisloes were enchanted by the site and, convinced that New Zealanders should appreciate its significance, they arranged to buy what is now the Waitangi National Trust Estate.
I te 10 o Mei, whai miuri i tana toro, ka whakamōhiongia ā-reta te Pirimia George Forbes e Rore Bledislow: 'Tenei au, mō māua ko Tōna Tino Hōnore, e tāpae nei mōu ki te motu, te pae tino hītori nui o Aotearoa, ko "Waitangi", me ngā eka 1000, he wāhanga o te papawhenua katoa kua hokona mai i nā tata nei mō tēnei pūtake.'
I takoha ōkawatia a Waitangi e Rore Bledisloe ki te whenua i tētahi hui i taea rā e te mano tini i te 6 o Pēpuere 1934 – te Rā o Waitangi tuatahi, te rā ā-iwi o Aotearoa.