New kaupapa Māori health hub opens for young parents in East Auckland
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A new kaupapa Māori health and social services hub will open on Tuesday in East Auckland, offering wrap-around support for young parents and whānau to "come together again".
Te Whare Piringa, located on Ngāti Pāoa whenua in Glenn Innes, is the first iwi-led space of its kind in Aotearoa. A whare designed not just for parenting support but to reconnect whānau across generations.
The opening of the re-designed whare will mark the first step in a broader shift for Ki Tua o Matariki, formerly known as
E Tipu E Rea
, a kaupapa Māori service supporting mātua taiohi (young parents), pēpi and their wider whānau.
Rooted in te ao Māori, the whare offers parenting wānanga, shared kai spaces, and areas designed for kōrero, play and connection between pēpi, mātua taiohi and kaumātua.
Ki Tua o Matariki chief executive Zoe Witika-Hawke (Ngāti Hako, Ngāti Paoa) said the whare represents a deeper commitment to whānau wellbeing.
"Te Whare Piringa isn't just a new whare, it represents a shift in how we show up for our whānau," she said.
"Being on Ngāti Pāoa whenua carries deep cultural and spiritual significance for us. It allows us to continue our important mahi supporting mātua taiohi and pēpi in our rohe, while also caring for our descendants on their own whenua."
The name Te Whare Piringa was gifted by the Glen Innes community and speaks to the vision of a space for connection, and collective healing.
Ki Tua o Matariki Chief Executive Zoe Witika-Hawke (Ngāti Hako, Ngāti Paoa) said Te Whare Piringa represents a deeper commitment to whānau wellbeing.
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"This will bring us closer to our vision of intergenerational care and reconnect us with the traditional ways our people have always raised tamariki - together, as a village," Witika-Hawke said.
"In a world where so many are parenting in isolation, we're creating a space where whānau can come together again. When aunties, uncles, kuia, koroua and cousins share in care, our tamariki thrive. That's the future we're building."
The transition to the name Ki Tua o Matariki - which can be understood as "beyond Matariki" - also signifies a renewed committment for the group.
"Ki Tua o Matariki is about where we're heading," Witika-Hawke said.
"It reminds us that the wellbeing of our mokopuna depends on the whole pa harakeke - the strength of the village around them. That's the kaupapa guiding us, now and into the future."
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Photo: Supplied A new kaupapa Māori health and social services hub will open on Tuesday in East Auckland, offering wrap-around support for young parents and whānau to "come together again". Te Whare Piringa, located on Ngāti Pāoa whenua in Glenn Innes, is the first iwi-led space of its kind in Aotearoa. A whare designed not just for parenting support but to reconnect whānau across generations. The opening of the re-designed whare will mark the first step in a broader shift for Ki Tua o Matariki, formerly known as E Tipu E Rea , a kaupapa Māori service supporting mātua taiohi (young parents), pēpi and their wider whānau. Rooted in te ao Māori, the whare offers parenting wānanga, shared kai spaces, and areas designed for kōrero, play and connection between pēpi, mātua taiohi and kaumātua. Ki Tua o Matariki chief executive Zoe Witika-Hawke (Ngāti Hako, Ngāti Paoa) said the whare represents a deeper commitment to whānau wellbeing. "Te Whare Piringa isn't just a new whare, it represents a shift in how we show up for our whānau," she said. "Being on Ngāti Pāoa whenua carries deep cultural and spiritual significance for us. It allows us to continue our important mahi supporting mātua taiohi and pēpi in our rohe, while also caring for our descendants on their own whenua." The name Te Whare Piringa was gifted by the Glen Innes community and speaks to the vision of a space for connection, and collective healing. Ki Tua o Matariki Chief Executive Zoe Witika-Hawke (Ngāti Hako, Ngāti Paoa) said Te Whare Piringa represents a deeper commitment to whānau wellbeing. Photo: Supplied "This will bring us closer to our vision of intergenerational care and reconnect us with the traditional ways our people have always raised tamariki - together, as a village," Witika-Hawke said. "In a world where so many are parenting in isolation, we're creating a space where whānau can come together again. When aunties, uncles, kuia, koroua and cousins share in care, our tamariki thrive. That's the future we're building." The transition to the name Ki Tua o Matariki - which can be understood as "beyond Matariki" - also signifies a renewed committment for the group. "Ki Tua o Matariki is about where we're heading," Witika-Hawke said. "It reminds us that the wellbeing of our mokopuna depends on the whole pa harakeke - the strength of the village around them. That's the kaupapa guiding us, now and into the future."
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The ship's crew were dropping dead of scurvy, and its commander, Captain Jean-François Marie de Surville, had been forced to make landfall in Aotearoa New Zealand. The crew were nursed back to health by members of Ngāti Kahu living near the northern edge of Doubtless Bay. Relations between tangata whenua and the new arrivals were initially peaceful. However, that changed when one of the ship's small boats was lost in a storm and washed up on shore. It was claimed by local Māori as a gift from Tangaroa. De Surville retaliated to what he interpreted as theft by setting fire to a nearby kainga, and seizing two carved waka. He also kidnapped a local rangatira named Ranginui , who was taken away in chains, and subsequently died of thirst and scurvy aboard the Saint Jean Baptiste . The storm which precipitated these events also claimed three of the Saint Jean Baptiste' s large iron anchors. The ship's logs capture in harrowing detail how the ship was blown "within musket shot" of the cliffs of the Karikari Peninsula after the cable securing the ship to its anchor snapped. Two other anchors were deployed, but failed to find purchase on the sandy bottom of the bay. De Surville gave orders to cut the two remaining anchors loose in an effort to save the ship. His second in command, Guilliam Labe, recorded in his journal that "the vessel stayed for quite a long time without answering to her rudder and we stared death in the face, seeing rocks along the length of the ship fit to make your hair stand on end". Thanks to an extraordinary piece of seamanship, the vessel was saved, but the three anchors were lost. The anchor had been located by the famous underwater treasure hunter Kelly Tarlton in 1982, but nobody had seen it since. Photo: Supplied to RNZ The three anchors remained at the bottom of the ocean for more than 200 years until the first was discovered by famous marine treasure hunter (and aquarium founder) Kelly Tarlton in 1974. It was retrieved from the bottom of the ocean and now hangs above the foyer at Te Papa museum. The second anchor was found later that year by Northland diver Mike Bearsley and installed at Te Ahu Museum in Kaitaia. The third anchor was located in 1982 by a team including Kelly Tarlton, his daughter Nicole Tarlton, Vietnamese diver Hung Nguyen and Kelly's brother-in-law Peter Pettigrew. Kelly Tarlton recorded the location of the anchor, but in the 40 years since his papers were lost and despite many experienced divers looking for it, nobody had managed to relocate it. In the process of making his podcast, Kelly Tarlton's Final Treasure Hunt , host Hamish Williams explored the possibility the anchor might have been illicitly salvaged, and made the centrepiece of a music festival at Te Arai called "Shipwrecked". However a later expedition to Doubtless Bay with marine engineer Brendan Wade, two of Kelly's former treasure hunting companions, Keith Gordon and Dave Moran, as well as local diver Whetu Rutene (Ngāti Kahu) suggested the anchor was still at the bottom of the ocean. The team used a magnetometer to search the bay, and detected a large magnetic anomaly on the seabed. However, underwater searches of the location were unsuccessful, raising the possibility that the anchor may have been buried by sediment, or that the equipment was defective. Then, just days before the final episode of the podcast was released, there was a new development. Hamish and Fiona Tarlton with flowers for Kelly in December 2020. Photo: Hamilton Williams Kelly Tarlton had filed the detailed notes of his discovery of the anchor at his Museum of Shipwrecks, and these files were later sold at auction when the museum closed in the early 2000s. Auction records suggested the files had been sold to Kelly's brother in-law Peter Pettigrew, but Pettigrew had no recollection of purchasing them, and insisted the records must be mistaken. However, just days before the podcast was launched, Pettigrew discovered the file buried at the back of a storage unit. "[It was] the very last carton at the very back of the lock up on the ground level, the lowest rung of all was 'item 65, Kelly's Archives'," Pettigrew explained. But finding the notes turned out to be just the first step. Marine engineer Brendan Wade, partner to Ellie Callahan - one of the podcasts producers - had become heavily involved in the search for the anchor, lending both his expertise and his equipment, including his boat, a remotely operated underwater vehicle, and a sophisticated sonar-scanning array to the endeavour. Wade recalled the moment he received the email with Kelly's long-lost notes. "I thought 'f***ing eureka we've got it!'" But that enthusiasm was short-lived. It turned out that Kelly's notes did not include precise coordinates. Instead they had drawings and readings taken using a sextant, an old-fashioned navigational tool used to estimate the location of a ship at sea by referencing landmarks on shore against the position of the sun. Converting sextant readings into GPS coordinates is not a simple task. Luckily, Wade was at sea working on a survey ship at the time and was able to lean on the expertise of his colleagues. "There's a bit of clever maths involved to do this, but the boys very graciously taught me," he explained. To Wade's surprise, the coordinates he calculated didn't match the location of the magnetometer signal found in the previous expedition. He was initially sceptical that Kelly Tarlton had accurately recorded his position "I actually kinda thought I just want[ed] to go up and disprove this, because it doesn't match anything else. We've got this [magnetometer signal], that's where the anchor is." Brendan Wade with the second de Surville anchor at Te Ahu Museum in Kaitaia. Photo: Ellie Callahan Braving wild weather which brought severe flooding to parts of the country last week, Wade motored out to the coordinates with his ROV - invoking the spirit of Kelly Tarlton along the way. "I had a chat to Kelly on the way out there and said 'come on mate, you've to to help me out here!'" Wade remembered. 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The panel visited Chatham Island in April, meeting with representatives from Hokotehi Moriori Trust and Moriori Imi Settlement Trust, representatives from Ngāti Mutunga o Wharekauri, as well as with Vince and Nikau Dix, who first discovered the waka. Pou Mataaho o Te Hononga Deputy Secretary Māori Crown Partnerships at the Ministry for Culture and Heritage Glenis Philip-Barbara (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Uepōhatu) said they were only beginning to understand the significance of the waka based on the approximately 5 to 10 percent of it that has been recovered so far. "[It] gives us just an indication of how important it is, but not enough information to draw any reliable provenance theories. So we've got just enough to get our curiosity going but not enough to be able to tell the story." This was a story of human endeavour that had the potential to be something extraordinary for Rēkohu/Wharekauri to contribute to the world and what we think we know about human settlement, she said. "We are hugely curious to understand how we came to be in the places we are, so we've got just a little indication here and a very clear direction from the experts... that we need to recover the rest and get on with uncovering the rest of the story because there is more to come." Kiwa Hammond, the imi Moriori representative on the expert panel, described the waka as 'our Hawaikitanga' - an embodiment that tīpuna and karapuna carried for thousands of years as they migrated across the Pacific. "It really did challenge things that we as indigenous peoples of Te Moana Nui a Kiwa that we have accepted... but it also made us go, 'What is that? Why is that? Why is that there and what is it telling us?'" The rediscovery of the waka was of global significance because it will help us to better understand how the ancestors of Moriori operated, and exactly what went into them getting here, he said. "I mean let's be very clear - there was nothing accidental about any of their voyages," Hammon said. "The whole notion that people drifted from one location to another is a fallacy when you understand the scale of this enterprise and what was involved and what we've seen is a fraction of this waka." Hammond said it was a privilege to be able to look at the pieces of the waka and appreciate how much work and knowledge went into them. It helped the panel to appreciate just how much planning - not just weeks or months, but years - would have gone into the creation of this waka, he said. And Hammond believed it was quite likely the people who built the waka worked on more than one at a time and had whole production lines. "I liken them to a cruise liner, an ancient cruise liner, because when you consider that these waka could have anything up to 100 people, that's how big they were and I think that's something we don't quite comprehend. "As our tīpuna were traversing Te Moana Nui a Kiwa they were doing this on massive crafts, these were huge vessels." Dr Kahutoi Te Kanawa, Professor Sir Derek Lardelli and Nikau Dix at the creek near the excavation site. Photo: Supplied/Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage Based on what had been recovered to date, it was clear the Chatham Island waka was unique. The panel named it as a 'waka tuitui' - an old term for planked waka that had been stitched or lashed together. On the New Zealand mainland, the availability of large trees such as giant kauri and tōtara saw planked waka technology give way to the large single-hull dugouts that early European voyagers observed. Hammond said often there was a misconception around the type of technology and techniques that were used when constructing the ships that brought Moriori and Māori ancestors from the Pacific. "As they were travelling around different parts of the world they made use of resources that were there and they honed their knowledge, they honed their understanding of what was the best way of making use of the resources they had at hand." The planked waka was a kind of technology that had not been seen in Aotearoa for a very long time, he said. A plank of a stitched waka recovered from a swamp in Anaweka, north Westland, was the only fragment found in Aotearoa confidently identified as of a 'voyaging' waka until the Chatham Island find. Philip-Barbara said she was hugely grateful to the whānau of Wharekauri Station who discovered the waka, and who - with community on the island - poured their heart and soul into uncovering its story. "I'm in awe, quite excited but also feeling there is a burden of responsibility here that we have to work through." There was a day-to-day role in caring for what had been uncovered and the people of Rēkohu/Wharekauri continued to do that mahi on behalf of the entire country, she said. Hammond said it was very clear this find was a major kaupapa to the local community, and they need to be supported to see it through. "No matter who we spoke to they said, 'Look, if this is so significant then it needs to be supported.' The fact of the matter is it needs to be resourced." The panel recommended that "emphasis now should be on the urgent recovery of the remainder of the waka and ensuring the island is supported for its long-term care." Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.
