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Article: Te Atiawa reaches the home straight
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- The Nelson Mail
- Article date:
- February 19, 2004
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The final Waitangi Tribunal hearing for Te Tau Ihu starts in
Nelson next week. Angela Moriarty talks to Te Atiawa chairman Pat
Park about what comes next. Sitting on a seat at the entrance of the
Te Awhina Marae wharenui, Pat Park recalls helping build kaumatua
flats on marae when he was 10 years old.
"I can't seem to remember when I wasn't involved in iwi things,''
he says.
Park took over as chairman of Te Atiawa Iwi Trust in October last
year. Having been a trustee of Te Atiawa for 10 years, he had pulled
out of his Motueka panelbeating business in April to work with his
iwi.
"It's a fulltime job but it's not a paid job so I really do a lot
of things for koha, for love.
"Once you are ...