TE KOTAHITANGA O TE IWI O NGATI WEHIWEHI

HUI-A-TAU : MARAE COMMITTEE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

WEHIWEHI PA, MANAKAU, HOROWHENUA

TUESDAY 2 OCTOBER 2001, 7.30 PM

TREASURERS REPORT

Kia hiwa ra kia hiwa ra

Kia hiwa ra i tenei tuku

Kia hiwa ra i tera tuku

Kia hiwa ra kia hiwa ra

Tehei Mauriora

Tehei Mauriora ite tai ao

Tehei Mauriora ite whai ao

Tehei Mauriora ite ao marama

He toi rangi, he toi matua

He toi tangata ki ahau nei

Tehei Mauriora

Ko te atua te timatanga me te whakamutunga o

Nga mea katoa, Honore Kororia ki aia

E nga mate katoa o te motu mai i te hiku ki te punga, haere, haere, haere

Kei aku manu e topa mai nei

ki te tauranga matua o Ngati Wehiwehi kia whakatauria te kaupapa

o tenei huihuinga,

Nau mai, Haere mai

no reira

ka apiti hono tatai hono

te hunga mate ki te hinga mate

ka apiti hono tatai hono

te hunga ora ki te hunga ora

tena kotou x 3 katoa

Kia ora ano te whanau,

Many things have happened since our last AGM in November 2000. It has been a year of real progress, which has been made in a number of different areas.

The 2000 – 2001 accounts from the 1^st September 2000 until the 31^st August 2001 are attached for your review. These accounts had been duly audited by Kevin Crombie from AGAR CROMBIE who have been our auditor for the last couple of years.

In the report we have tried to break down the income and expenses into more relevant categories for your review. This has allowed us to try and compare the activity to last year.

Some notable events during the year

Recipient of a grant from Pub Charity of NZD 15,000 to for our Whareumu extension. This money will be used together with the grant from last year to start the wharepaku upgrade

We have received koha from Para Tawhiti Kura and Kotahitanga te Kohanga Reo for use of marae facilities during this year. Although there are some monetary value from this arrangement the real value is in the wairua that having people using the marae each day for learning of the Te Reo.

We had a successful day last year from our final Gala Day held although under tragic circumstances regard my father’s mate. This year a very keen group has been working on the new “KAI FEST” day for the 13^th October. Our komiti believe that this will be an outstanding success.

Our new fund raising initiative called the “No Pain Koha” has been running for about a year now. Five people have contributed a small amount each month directly into this account. They have managed to raise over 500.00. I would really like to encourage more of our whanau who don’t live in the area and who would like to support us in this way.

During the mid part of this year we have finally got our Kaihoe Waka course started. This has meant that we have been using the September and July months to host up to 7- to 80 students. This has also brought us some monies. Each hui we receive a koha of $2500.00 and spend about $1500.00 but again the positive spin off to do something with our cousins and whanau from Tukorehe is the real value

We have also started during this year to look at the maintenance activities that need to be carried out around the marae. I would like to highlight some key areas of activity carried out

Purchased some Totara timber which is located at Uncle Noels whare. This will be used at some later date in a building project.
We also purchased new gas burners for the cook house.
We made a significant purchase to get new mops, brooms and cleaning equipment.
Two new hot water units were purchased for the kitchen to give us instant hot water.
We spent the grant from the Raukawa District Maori Council to purchase new linen.

Our web site continues to move along with little or no cost to our marae. We have over 2300 people viewing our web site with many people leaving messages. I would encourage all those who have some access to read some of the notes left by our visitors, some of them are our whanau members.

My hope that our next twelve months proved even more eventful and we can see some tangible changes to our marae

Ryszard Orzecki