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18 Bay Harbour News Wednesday November 8 2023 Key Construction area Opawa Road Traffic flow Brougham Street Wilsons Road Hornbrook Street Opawa Road N Night works on Brougham Street in November Opawa Road intersection Orion is installing a new 66kV underground power cable at the intersection of Brougham Street and Opawa Road from Monday 6 November until early December. Please expect delays and allow extra time for your journey. Thank you. PHONE 0800 363 9898 haveyoursay.oriongroup.co.nz To do this construction work safely, traffic management will be in place at night from 6pm until 6am, seven days a week. • Brougham Street will have a lane open in each direction • No travel on Opawa Road across Brougham Street • Left in left out access only at Opawa Road and Brougham Street The traffic management will change as work progresses. Follow all signs and instructions from our crew. We’re strengthening our electricity network
Wednesday November 8 2023 Bay Harbour News TREASURES FROM THE PAST 19 Te Rā o te Pāhua (the day of plunder) NOVEMBER 5 marks a dark day in the history of race relations in Aotearoa New Zealand. The shadow of events in Parihaka stretches from the mountain of Taranaki to the shores of Whakaraupō Lyttelton Harbour and beyond. Māori peacefully united in Parihaka for their survival and the cultivation of their soil in the face of land confiscation and the concentrated efforts of imperial forces. The values of peaceful protest and non-violent resistance preceded the time of Gandhi and has become a practice echoed in protest movements since. The values of this movement must be acknowledged, especially in their continuation within the challenging environments and the people the prisoners and remaining whānau were met with in the aftermath of Te Rā o te Pāhua. The following is an extract from the book Rāpaki Church A Sesquicentennial 1869-2019 by Ngāti Wheke kaumātua Donald Couch. Parihaka Parihaka is a Māori community in Taranaki. The name is now associated in New Zealand history with nonviolent resistance by Māori to European forceful occupation of confiscated Māori land, and their subsequent treatment. In 1870, 74 Māori from Pakakohi, Taranaki, received death sentences imposed by courts-martial. The sentences were later commuted to imprisonment in Dunedin for terms of three or seven years. Subsequently, it was officially recorded that 18 of the 74 died there. One of the ways non-violent resistance was practised was to plough confiscated land. About 420 plowmen were subsequently imprisoned. Another method was to build fences. None of the 216 arrested in 1879 were granted a trial. They were sent directly to South Island prisons. On November 5, 1881, 1600 troops and cavalry (including MEMORIAL: The Parihaka monument at Rāpaki church acknowledging the Parihaka men, and the women and children who were left undefended in their absence. It is surrounded in unity with plaques from Waikato, Ngāti Kahungungu ki Wairarapa and Te Tai Tokerau. Harry Ell, later of Port Hills Summit Rd fame), entered the village of Parihaka. Sixteen hundred inhabitants were expelled and dispersed throughout Taranaki without food or shelter. Soldiers looted and destroyed most of the buildings at Parihaka. The leaders Te Whiti o Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi were arrested and jailed for 16 months. As the Waitangi Tribunal reported in 1996, “a vibrant and productive Māori community was destroyed (with) total state control of all matters Māori.” More than 400 Māori were arrested and jailed in the South Island where they remained without trial for as long as 16 months. This was done via a series of new repressive laws, which permitted the Government to postpone trials indefinitely. The Government moved all Parihaka prisoners to the South Island, incarcerating them in jails in Dunedin, Hokitika, Lyttelton and Rīpapa (later to Ōtamahua Quail Island). There were an increasing number of deaths in custody in the freezing South Island jails. In March 2000, descendants of Parihaka prisoners visited Rāpaki during a heke to Te Waipounamu to visit the places where their tīpuna had been imprisoned or buried. Unfortunately, compared with the Parihaka prisoners sent to Dunedin and Hokitika, where some details of their experiences are available, there is little information about those who were imprisoned in Whakaraupō. The Waitangi Tribunal confirmed that neither the Government nor the media wanted information released. In 1881, the Lyttelton Times declined the publication of an article on the prisoners because “our correspondent gives details which are really too disgusting for publication and if true, cast the utmost disgrace upon those who had the prisoners in charge”. And, in Parliament the Native Minister gave only vague replies, such as “the deaths amongst Māoris have been very few in proportion to the numbers of the prisoners . . .” But die they unfortunately and undoubtedly did on Ōtamahua. Rāpaki offered manaaki with burial in a Māori urupā on Māori whenua. As the Rāpaki urupā Parihaka monument states, the prisoners that died on Ōtamahua Island were buried on the island, but Rāpaki people exhumed and reinterred them back at Rāpaki urupā. In June 2017, the Crown made a formal apology. Chris Finlayson, Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations and Attorney General of New Zealand, on behalf of the Crown, acknowledged the past events at Parihaka as “among the most shameful in the history of our land.” – Copyright ©️ 2019 Donald Couch DELIVERERS WANTED!! IMMEDIATE START We have delivery rounds available across the Bay Harbour area. EARN EXTRA CASH! GET FIT EARNING IT If you are aged 11 or older, join our dynamic team and deliver the Bay Harbour newspaper to local homes every Wednesday. Contact Cathy Payne Distribution Manager P: 021 340 771 | E: cathy.payne@mainlanddistribution.co.nz OR SCAN THE QR CODE TO APPLY
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