Ki a ratou tupuna kua wehe ai ki po... me matou kaumatua kua hinga i nga tau, ia tau, ia tau... haere atu ra koutou ma, e honoa ki a ratou ma o te hunga wairua i tua o te arai, na reira ka nui te aroha ki a koutou kua ngaro ki te po, ka nui te whakaaro o koutou kupu ma te hokinga o tatou mana motuhake, na reira haere atu ra ki ta tatou Matua nui i te rangi, na reira haere, haere, haere atu ra koutou... apiti hono tatai hono koutou te hunga wairua ki a koutou.

E huri ake nei ki tatou o te hunga ora, e mihi nui ki a koutou... na reira nau mai, haere mai, whakatau mai nga manuwhiri tuarangi, nga hapu, nga whanaunga, nga whanau hoki, nau mai haere mai ki tenei waahi rorohiko o te iwi o Patukirikiri o Hauraki o Tamakimakaurau o Marutuahu whanui, na reira tena ra koutou katoa.

The eponymous ancestor of the Patukirikiri tribe is 'Kapetaua.' He was born in Auckland at Oue Pa (Duders Beach). His father was Tawake, a descendant of the Ngatokimatawhaorua waka of Northland while his mother Te Auwhangarahi was a local woman of Wai o Hua and Te Uri o Pou descent.

In his youth, Kapetaua was treated harshly by his brother-in-law Tarakumukumu which resulted in the name "Te Toka a Kapetaua" (The rock of Kapetaua), being applied to what is now more commonly referred to as 'Bean Rock' in the Waitemataa Harbour. Reaching adulthood Kapetaua concluded his insult by taking possession of his brother-in-laws Wai-o-Hua domains in Auckland, being at the time, Waiheke Island, Orakei, Kohimarama and Mahurangi.

After residing at most of these places he decided to migrate to the Moehau region and establish himself there so leaving some of his people as kaitiaki in their Auckland areas, he crossed over to Moehau and using the famed Ngati Huarere cultivation 'Te Rakato" as an excuse, he forced the local Ngati Huarere from their lands at 'Kapanga' (Coromandel) and took possession of the area.

Later his descendants began to intermarry with the newly arrived Marutuahu people, resulting in strong whakapapa links being forged with Ngati Tamatera, while in Auckland his people formed these same whanau links with Ngati Paoa, which new whanau bonds directly involved them in the struggle between Ngati Huarere and the Marutuahu people where the latter were victorious some four generations later. This hard earned victory however persuaded many Patukirikiri descendants to accept their Marutuahu whakapapa and heritage as their principal bloodline.

During this time of unrest, one battle of significance for the descendants of Kapetaua occurred when Ngati Huarere launched a sneak attack against them at Motutapere (Peters Island) in the Coromandel Harbour in the early hours before dawn however their arrival on the shingle beach was heard by two women of senior rank who went to investigate and recognising the danger raised the alarm, which signalled their immediate doom. With the Island's inhabitants now alerted the invaders fled but were quickly overtaken and destroyed near the centre of the current Coromandel township.

From this incident "Patukirikiri" (slain on shingle) recieved a new name in memory of the two women who raised the alarm.

The Patukirikiri Legal Entity

TPI-Certificate-of-incorporation.pdf

TE PATUKIRIKIRI IWI INCORPORATED

Patukirikiri fell victim to the Crown’s land acquisition methods of the past as did many other Iwi in Aotearoa, and has since persued the Crown and its subordinates to right those injustices, which long standing struggle has involved many generations of Patukirikiri people.

Patukirikiri evolved with the times trying to bring the Crown to account for its past discretions against them continuing to manage tribal affairs via a runanga made up of family heads, however their tribal voice continued to be ignored by the Crown and the Government, so in 1997 the tribe restructured for formal recognition and incorporated itself under the Incorporated Societies Act 1908 and bought all their tribal and whanau affairs under one legal management entity being… Te Patukirikiri Iwi Incorporation (TPI).

The TPI structure contains a governance level and supporting executive structure for accountability and transparency purposes. While there are formally ten runanga trustees and four executives… and while every legal entity has the right to manage its shareholders affairs within a ‘trustee only’ environment, this right is not practiced nor supported by Patukirikiri or its entity TPI. Every TPI runanga hui facilitated by TPI allows every recognised descendant to participate in all discussions, to move motions and exercise voting rights as one would be permitted to undertake at any tribal hui-a-Iwi and in that way every tribal member attending, whether registered with TPI or not, is involved in the tribes decision making processes.

In short TPI is the servant of its people and not the other way around.

In 1988 Patukirikiri became one of twelve tribal governance members of the Hauraki Maori Trust Board (HMTB) and worked alongside other Hauraki and Auckland tribes to present the Wai 100 claim, being a blanket claim for all the lands of Hauraki and Auckland. However post the Wai 100 presentation many Patukirikiri members felt their specific tribal grievances particularly areas of high cultural significance had not been fully covered by the presentation, so as a result of that, Patukirikiri lodged its own tribal claim in 1999 which was formally acknowledged by the Waitangi Tribunal in 2000 assigning ‘Wai 811’ to the claim.

From that time to this Patukirikiri and its legal entity Te Patukirikiri Iwi Incorporated remains on the path set be its tupuna.

Shortly however ‘TE PATUKIRIKIRI IWI TRUST’ as the tribes Post Governance Settlement Entity (PSGE) will be established as a Crown requirement to recieve settlement assets which entity will eventually replace Te Patukirikiri Iwi Incorporated after due course.

TE PATUKIRIKIRI IWI TRUST

Patukirikiri-Iwi-Trust-Deed-2012 in its DRAFT FORM to establish it’s PSGE.

This legal entity with its own legislation is expected to carry the aspirations of the Patukirikiri people into the future and beyond.