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Kia-Ora

Congratulations on a great website, being from Aotea I am very happy to see the efforts you people are putting in to keep this place so special.

Best Regards

Wayne Hohua

My name is Mini and I wanted to say I found your website really interesting and educational. It is nice to see a site detailing knowledge of native plants and I am glad to see the Maori usage is still being kept alive for people to learn and be informed.

Regards,

Mini Prasad

Years ago I had the worst case of dermatitis you've ever seen. My arms from the elbows to the tips of my fingers were red raw, not good changing nappies & trying to manuevour the pin through the. Anyway a good friend of the family, Helen K went to our local tip & brought back a heap of Kawakawa & (as per your very same instructions) boiled it up & when cold enough bottled the juice (for which TOTALLY healed my youngest of her asthma) & with the leaves she wrapped both my arms & hands then put banadages around them. By the next morning (I kid you not) there was a layer of skin on both arms & hands. Just amazing, our local doctor had sent me to Auckland to see umpteen specialists to get umpteen jars of useless cream that didn't do a thing, in fact, most of them "fed the problem". By the end of a week I had all layers of healed (OK so my arms & hands were a little dark till the stain wore out) but I felt a million dollars. Thankyou so much for having this on your site, I had only just the other day suggested it to a guy who has a bad reaction (yep, dermatitis) to the treatment they are using for tanalising. So in the big smoke (concrete jungle) where would one find the Kawakawa tree?

Kind Regards
Jan Marsden

Ka nui nga mihi atu mo tenei mahi o te taonga Tuna.

Beautiful Tuna, what a face. Good pic.

Na

Gab

Selah Weingott

K.M.James

What an excellent site - thank you for the privilege of seeing it.

Ka kite,

Anthony Opie

Kathleen - Australia

Jackie Rhind

Take care and have a great day

humble regards,
Marcus Jacobs

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Primo website - kei te tautoko ahau mo nga kaupapa i Aotea Moana.

Me te whakaaro nui

Arohanui

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I have been doing some whakapapa research and it was really nice to discover the Aotea website. It was good reading about the activities to stop plundering of depleted kaimoana in this beautiful harbour. I too want to stop any more of this and support any conservation efforts.

Jane Taylor

I just want to thank you so much for your really well done website. I am very new to this country, from the United States. I do not believe what is going on there and after my husband (who is from New Zealand) got his draft card in the mail (the US could have called him up for military service at any time) we felt it was time to move here. It has been very difficult adapting- but with informative and interesting sites like yours, I am learning. I located it while looking for information on kumara, one of the tastiest tubers I have ever tried.

I have a profound respect for New Zealand and it's people and wished to share this with you, as well as my appreciation for your care of the earth where you live. It is my hope more people understand before it is too late that this work should belong to every one- our intelligence does not grant us free reign to do as we please- if any thing it gives us more responsibility.

If there is anything I can do to help your valiant and important efforts, please let me know.

Best Regards,

Erin Wood
Waiheke Island

Kind regards

Moka Apiti

Regards
Matthew Laurenson
Auckland

As a great lover of smoked eel I would like to thank you for the information at your site.

My late father was a butcher/smallgoods maker from Germany and migrated to Launceston Tasmania back in 1953 and he knew how to smoke anything.

As I was only 7 years old when we arrived I was shown then how to do it but 50 years down the track all was lost...

Kindest regards

Kurt G. Beyer
Manager/Licensee Legana Vineyard
Australia

Arohanui Katarina and Zoe Ogle!!!!!!!!!!!!

Aroha Apiti

" Kia niwha te ngakau ki te whakau i nga mahi atawhai "

>>>>>>>>>>> Moyra Te Ariki Bramley <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Kia kaha o koutou mahi rangatira
e tautoko ana koutou

ko tatou tene
Puukaki Marae

The look on this website is very excellent and the pictures are excellent as well, love the new entry of the marae it is very good. I am very impressed with everything that has been done with the web site. Well done, keep up the good work and keep doing some other things because so far it's going good. I’m sure everyone will want to know more about the marae and the background of it and also the background of Ngati te Wehi and how everything became about. Talk a lot about the ancestors and the caves around the back. There should be a lot of other things that should be on this website.
Go hard, and keep it up
Tino pai to mahi

Kia ora Na te whanau Tapara

Yee haa! ! ! ! This web site of Okapu Marae is the bomb Yee Haa! ! ! !

We would like to congratulate you on the web site; you did a very good job on it. Many thanks to Davis for his work on looking after our harbour, Okapu has a lot of interesting things about it…

No reira te whanau, kia ora
Na Gena Tapara me Hailee Awhitu

I grew up at Kawhia and have had many associations and memories of the Aotea Harbour: the local maraes; especially boat fishing there in the 50s / 60s with my father, who was born in Kawhia in 1914; the local maraes with whom my father had long association.
Commercial fishing has simply destroyed coastal and harbour along the west coast. About 20 years ago I remember Sandford boats coming down from Onehunga and cleaning out large schools of schnapper, literally taking them away by the truckload as more and more trawlers were ordered down from the Manukau.
Thus all my support for any efforts to curb commercial fishing in the Aotea Harbour.

Kia Kaha
John Reeve

Regards
Janne Perry

Regards
Teena Lawrence

Roslyn

Susanne Van der Heijden
Darwin
AUSTRALIA

Nga mihi.
All the best in your mahi and education of others. I wish you well. Kia manawanui. Kia kaha.

Arohanui
Mahinarangi Tocker
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Eileen Fenton

Ko tooku kuia no Okapu, ko Pare Tuhirangi toona ingoa, ko Aroha Webby tooku ingoa. Ka nui te mihi ki a koutou katoa. Tino tumeke tenei website. What an awesome website! It's been amazing to see Okapu on the web. I haven't been there for quite sometime since we took my grandfather's kawe mate. His name was Tiare Hakopa and his mother was Pare Tuhirangi, who is buried at Okapu. Myself and members of my whanau are keen to come back and reconnect with the wahanu at Okapu is there any hui coming up where we could do that? I'd really appreciate if someone could let me know.

Kiaora Koutou Katoa

E-mail: A.Webby@massey.ac.nz

Naaku naa
Justin Jacobs.

I think commercial fishing should be banned in all harbours, as these are important breeding grounds for many species.

Regards & Best Wishes for your campaign
Dave Lean

Aileen G McKay

E tautoko ana matou, tou koutou mahi e pa ana ki enei kaupapa ataahua
e here nei i a tatou. Koutou ma - kia kaha, kia u, kia toa, kia manawanui!

Ma te Matua-nui-i-te Rangi, hei manaakitia i a tatou katoa!

No reira, noho ora mai ra i raro i te maru a o tatou Kaihanga,
Ko Io - te timatanga me te mutunga o nga mea katoa!

Naku noa iti,
Na Kimihia Omipi-Waka

Keep up the excellent work.....

Arohanui
Jason, Lorna, Shaun & Dylan
Tauranga

Kiingi
Ngäti Hikairo, Ngäti Puhiawe, Ngäti Horotakere, Ngäti Apakura

It was with great sadness and concern that we stand behind you wholeheartedly for the gross injustices being done to you folk.

I have on several occaisions (never could get that word right) had the privilege of visiting Okapu Marae, and it is everything that your page portrays it to be.

Naku noa
Maaewa Hunt

My name is Pam Brown. I am from the Heiltsuk Nation on the central coast of British Columbia Canada. I recently came on to your site and was very impressed. I am working with my community on an Economic Development Base study and we are looking at management strategies like the use of your research permit and your fishing permit. We are looking at the options including the Haida Gwaii Watchmen program and other ways to protect the resources in our territories. I would like to use your research and fishing permit as a example to show my community. Would I be able to download a copy in word.

Thank you for your consideration. Again your site is impressive and helpful for us as we look at ways to manage economic development in our territory.

Respectfully
Pam Brown

http://www.alaska.net/~aknafws/2001conf.html - interesting conference and publications - Alaska
http://www.nativeweb.org/ Native web sites
http://www.nativeweb.org/resources/travel_tourism/
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/hpaied/index.htm Harvard School of economics
http://www.ahrdcc.com/ aboriginal human resource canada
http://www.afn.ca/ Assembly of First Nations
http://www.island.net/~nuuchah/ Nuchahnulth website

http://www.heiltsuk.com/ - this is my community - the Heiltsuk
http://www.luco.gov.bc.ca/
http://www.luco.gov.bc.ca/slupinbc/qcharlot/3.htm#3.9 - some info on Haida Gwaii
http://parkscan.harbour.com/gwaii/watch.htm Info on the Haida Watchmen program

Ka titiro atu au ki te ähua o nga rärangi whakaahua me ngä kupu körero kei tö whärangi i runga i te rorohiko, ka whakamïharo au.
Hoki tonu mai te maharatanga o ngä mätua tüpuna o mua, me te ähua o te whenua nei i te wä i ä rätou.

Kei te tautoko kei te manaaki atu i ngä tikanga kua whakatakotoria e koutou o te marae o Okapu me te iwi käinga o tënä rohe a tatou te iwi Mäori o Aotearoa, he koanga ngäkau ko koutou kei te awhi kei te tiaki i ënä taonga whakahirahira.
Kia mau, kia kaha.

Anö rä te mihi me te aroha atu

näku iti nei

Kui Pirikahu.
na Taumaha

Keep up the excellent work.
Aroha
na Taumaha

Jaqueline Henry (Ngati Maniapoto / Ngati Wairere / Ngati Mahuta)

Alex Lautensach
School of Science and Veterinary Nursing
Otago Polytechnic

"Common sense tends to override the other five." (Terry Pratchett)

Aloha,
Sue

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