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SELWYN TIMES Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Wednesday <strong>March</strong> 6 <strong>2019</strong> 13<br />
Pupil to wear moko at pre-school<br />
• By Anan Zaki<br />
WHEN ROLLESTON mother<br />
Teresa Butler asked a pre-school<br />
if her daughter could wear a<br />
moko kauae, she expected some<br />
resistance.<br />
But to her surprise, threeyear-old<br />
Taika (Tiger) Werahiko<br />
Butler-Dennison will be allowed<br />
to wear a moko kauae on her<br />
chin next month.<br />
Ms Butler is set to get a moko<br />
kauae tattooed on her chin early<br />
next month – and it will then be<br />
made into a stamp for Taika to<br />
wear.<br />
Bright Beginnings Montessori<br />
pre-school principal Zoe Irvine<br />
said the decision to allow Taika<br />
to wear the moko kauae was<br />
“easy.”<br />
“We didn’t even have to<br />
think about it. We work under<br />
Te Whariki, which is a bicultural<br />
curriculum, as all early<br />
childhood centres do,” Ms Irvine<br />
said.<br />
“And it’s part of the Treaty<br />
of Waitangi, so naturally we<br />
need to work towards<br />
partnerships, protecting the<br />
Maori culture.”<br />
Before deciding to get a moko<br />
kauae, Ms Butler looked at the<br />
history behind the tradition.<br />
“Young wahine Maori [women]<br />
got them done at a really young<br />
age because children were gifted<br />
CULTURE: Teresa Butler and her daughter Taika Werahiko Butler-Dennison wearing a<br />
temporary moko kauae last year.<br />
away at a young age,” Ms Butler<br />
said. Before colonisation, Maori<br />
put moko on their children to<br />
identify them from other tribes,<br />
she said.<br />
“So I thought ‘you know what?<br />
Kids where face-paint at kindy<br />
all the time. I thought, I’m her<br />
mother, she can wear a moko<br />
kauae whenever she wants,” Ms<br />
Butler said.<br />
Taika has worn a moko kauae<br />
stamp in the past, but it was not<br />
one that her family identified<br />
with, Ms Butler said.<br />
If Taika’s moko kauae stamp<br />
gets smudged, no teacher is<br />
allowed to touch it, she said.<br />
“It’s not like normal face-paint,<br />
because if you wipe off any part<br />
of a moko, you’re wiping off our<br />
ancestors. So you can’t touch it<br />
without (Taika’s) permission,”<br />
Ms Butler said.<br />
Work starts<br />
on Birchs Rd<br />
upgrade<br />
WORK TO upgrade Birchs Rd in<br />
Lincoln is under way.<br />
The $250,000 project will<br />
include a new footpath, as well<br />
as kerb, channel and stormwater<br />
improvements to a 700m stretch<br />
on the western side of the road,<br />
between Grangewood and Carnaveron<br />
Drives.<br />
District council assets manager<br />
Murray Washington described<br />
the work as an urbanisation<br />
upgrade.<br />
“This area has grown rapidly<br />
in recent years, with a further<br />
subdivision currently under<br />
way. The upgrade reflects the<br />
need to bring amenities up to a<br />
standard that’s appropriate for a<br />
more urban environment, which<br />
has developed through recent<br />
growth,” Mr Washington said.<br />
An existing bus stop between<br />
Grangewood and Craig Thompson<br />
Drives will be upgraded to<br />
a full bus bay, with a bus shelter<br />
which will be relocated from the<br />
now unused bus stop outside the<br />
Lincoln police station.<br />
The work is expected to take<br />
about eight weeks to complete,<br />
and temporary speed and parking<br />
restrictions on Birchs Rd will<br />
be in place when required.<br />
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