New Zealand Agreement: Pare Hauraki Collective Redress Deed 2018

Summary

The Deed provides shared redress for the collective interests of the 12 Iwi in the Hauraki region. It also provides certain redress which will then on-transfer to specific iwi to form part of their iwi-specific Treaty settlements. The Deed includes both cultural redress and commercial redress. It does not include financial redress, which each of the 12 Iwi of Hauraki will receive through their Iwi-specific settlements. The Deed provides for the establishment of the Pare Hauraki Collective Cultural Entity (the Collective Cultural Entity) to represent the Iwi of Hauraki in relation to natural resource matters. The Collective Cultural Entity will appoint members to a range of co-governance bodies in the Pare Hauraki rohe that will provide governance, oversight and direction in relation to the management of waterways, catchments and maunga in the Hauraki region. The Collective Cultural Entity, will also have partnerships and relationships with relevant Ministers and ministries. Throughout many of these frameworks, Pare Hauraki discuss their responsibilities as Mana whenua and kaitiakitanga which include elements of protection, guardianship, stewardship and customary use of such areas. Both the Moehau Tūpuna Maunga and Te Aroha Tūpuna Maunga is vested in the Collective Cultural Entity as 1,000 hectares of reserve. The purpose of the reserves will be to protect and enhance the spiritual, cultural, ancestral, customary and historical relationship between the Iwi of Hauraki and Maunga. As part of the cultural redress, the deed also establishes authority for the co-governance, oversight and direction for the Mangatangi river, Mangatawhiri stream and Whangamarino Wetland Catchments.