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puff 121 Lady So Far

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hau 137 i and ki continued

i and ki continued
There is a class of verbs to do with movement- haere for example
When i and ki follow these verbs they are directionals. I means from and ki means to.
Ka haere au i te waka- I go from the canoe.
Ka haere au ki te waka- I go to the canoe.

puff 136 Boxing at the Speedway

Just to say that it seems feasible to have boxing at the speedway.
The ring might be moved from the grandstand side to the terrace side to be close to people.
There might be a big screen.

puff 135 Environmental Risk Management

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puff 134 Aotearoa Waka

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puff 133 Tertiaries Rugby League

Tena ra koutou katoa
In 2007 there will be a Tertiary Rugby League competition which may involve institutions such as Wananga, Institutes of Learning, PTEs and other establishments. What actually constitutes a 'tertiary' might be an interesting question but this is an exciting development.
Where Peter Cleave Campus Ltd (Est 1992) might fit into this is to build on the history to begin with. In the 1990s the campus put up teams in Masters RL comps in Auckland. Since then the Campus has put up Touch Teams, had informal games in Feilding through the Leaguefairs, Himatangi Beach and elsewhere and is currently competing in informal indoor touch in Feilding. See http://puffmediacom.blogspot.com/2006/11/puff-116.htm
The Campus loooks forward to games of Rugby League. What about a Four Way involving EIT, the Combined Forces, Massey and Victoria?

puff 132 Veronica Bay

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puff 131 Angels and Demons

Don’t Push Me. [Based on words and music written by Paul Walker] [929 words]
Massey University sits wrapped in the various greens of nature on the only hill in the city of Palmerston North, a hill? Maybe a hump is a more descriptive word. It is in this space…that thousands of students have walked… talked… sat and listened to lectures. Some protested while others simply passed through… A place of learning…possibly, but that of course depends on the ability or desire of those called students…
Is it possible to force people to learn?
Is learning education?
Or is it simply something that must be done to ensure ones future.
The dilemma that is often exists amongst students who attend this or any other institution of learning is expectation… People of the older generation have a desire in the main to see their children make good. This desire for success can some times lead to pressures that strain the very core of family relationships.
The two students approached the elm tree from different directions, one with a arm full of books… she had just visited the library while the other had a couple of cans of coke. Under the tree was a wooden ring table and bench seating. Both in their early twenties they looked like an ideal couple meeting for an intellectual discussion on the world around them.
Positioning themselves on opposite sides of the table with the ease and grace of youth they slipped into conversation mode without formality. It was obvious that they had known each for sometime.
‘Hi Angel’, said Mike as he handed her a coke.
‘Thanks Mike’, she answered not in words but with a raising of her eye brows.
She went on “What did your Father say when you phoned him?
‘Nothing really, just the usual crap, education is the thing and yours’.
‘Mine too gave me a no-no.
My student loan debt was too high to give up now according to him’.
‘Dad says that just the thought of you and I stepping out into the night club scene with its drugs and bullshit makes him see red’.
‘Christ it’s not as if we are still teenagers, but times are different now…
My Dads’ no model of God like behaviour.
Trouble is Mom agrees with him, normally I can sweet-talk her into seeing things my way.
But she is on his side over this matter.
Law degree is the least they have grown to expect. It’s the in thing according to them, Maori lawyers. Christ I want to be a singer not a bloody lawyer’.
‘You could just fail all your exams; you cant be a lawyer if you don’t pass your papers’.
‘Yea’, that’s true, but I just can’t not try it wouldn’t seem right’, uttered Mark
‘Your so proud in some ways, you know that don’t you? She tapped him lightly on his shoulder.
‘Not really, I don’t like losing a game of rugby but then again I don’t cry if I do.
Anyway you’re the same you sure get fired up in your netball team.
Remember that last game against Girls High… you were a real tough cookie’.
‘I do when you’re watching’, she said with a grin that revealed strong white teeth.
Mike and Angel were not afraid of silence, they sat and sipped their cokes, now warm and sweet.
‘You remember when you learnt to ride your bike? Asked Angel.
‘Sure do, good God that must have been twelve or fourteen years ago’.
‘Well that’s the kind of pride I mean’
‘Say, again’ asked Mark.
‘Pride, don’t you remember telling your Father not to push you’
‘Push, yea but he was in fact holding me upright’.
Still I rode that bloody bike in the end.
Did you know that bike is still in the shed at home… Must be covered in rust by now.’
‘What I meant was that you would beg him not to push… while I was around.
It was OK if you needed a hand or if safety was involved… but not when I was around. I’ve never told you this before… well never needed to really.
But I actually didn’t think any less of you… if your Father pushed you or otherwise.
At the time all I wanted was for my Dad to buy me a bike’.
‘So I wasn’t your hero, that’s a bit of a let down’.
‘Not really at the time the bike was the real attraction’, Angel said while grinning’.
What time is your next class?’
‘Two twenty’, Mark replied.
‘Got to go, but maybe we should talk again to our parents.
Maybe we could do both… you know perform while we learn.
Have a think about it’ and… don’t forget your books’.
He stood and moved around behind her, leant over and gave her a quick peck on the cheek.
Angel watched him stride toward a tall gray stone and concrete building. She loved him deeply…
A few years later at the Otahuhu local pub… two proud dads sat watching the huge TV screen.
The room was packed for the second test against the Lions.
The New Zealand National Anthem had just been performed, sung by ‘Angel and Co’ a popular Christchurch duo.
The All Blacks were about to go into haka mode.
‘You wouldn’t think they were lawyers would you’ said one proud father…
‘No not really, but if they practice law as well as they sing they’ve got a great future’ said the other equally proud father…
The All Blacks won 26 to 14.

puff 130 Wheeler's Corner 43

Wheeler’s CornerÓ
Connecting Citizens Who Care
"Broadcast every Thursday at 11.45am on Access 999AM"
Contact Peter at wheeler@inspire.net.nz
43 9th November 2006
This Week: 1. Is truth irrelevant: 2. Public Relations man new CEO? 3. Turitea friends bite back. 4. Letters to editor. 5. Message from Paul Wylie to Council Staff. 6. Attached: Paul Wylie’s heroic email to staff.
1.It is said that for the last few years our city management has followed a management style that is both negative and autocratic. Many writers on ‘Organizational development’ believe that this style can not support the principles of democracy in a community or citizens owned organisation.
The following numbered comments written in normal print is the common behaviour often shown by a new CE type person and the managers he/she appoints. The writers of this model suggest, this type of CE’s actually have major security of tenure problems and a lack of confidence profile: Bold Italics used are my additions. For more go to http://www.flatrock.org.nz/ and go to whistleblowers.
1. Corporations are in a constant state of upheaval. When a new executive takes over a post, he (or occasionally she) brings in a whole new crew of cronies. Bureaucracy is a set of networks of patronage. [PNCC has few management staff appointed into their positions before CE [Wylie] was appointed most have been newly appointed or restructured and are totally dependant on the present CE.
2. Corporations often respond to the whims and inclinations of the chief executive. Even an off-hand comment by the chief executive can trigger subordinates into intense activity to do what they think is being suggested. In many cases the result is ill advised or disastrous. [This is being clearly demonstrated by the type of reports submitted by staff on behalf of the CE [Wylie] closure of road, Pensioners Parking, Square Make over and various roading projects, Elmira Ave, bowling club,Turitea wind farm and the Linklater block stuff up]
3. Conformity is enforced to amazingly fine detail. Managers, to be successful, must continually adapt their personalities to adjust to the current situation. This is not just acting. They must become so natural at what they do that they "are" their act. Much of this adaptation enables them to fit in. Clothes must conform to expectations, as must speech, attitudes and personal style. [Some senior managers strut around at council meetings, going up to whisper in the CE’s ear, coming to a council meeting carrying every-file you can think off, taking strike action on behalf of the CE, and defending his aggressive public behaviour. And it’s not just managers, some councillors treat the CE not as staff but as their boss, especially those who have a poor relationship with the Mayor and need someone to feed their egos. The group known as the tight eight and their collective attitude is a good example]
4. Those who don't adapt don't get ahead. Managers don't want to act until a decision is generally accepted. [In the first two / three years of the CE’s rule a huge amount of rate payers money was paid out removing staff, especially in the corporate and community development area.]
They [Managers] experience a pervasive indecisiveness. Each one looks for signals on what decision will be favoured. Signals from the boss [CE] are especially important.
6. Responsibility is diffused and hard to pin down. Managers avoid taking responsibility. The key thing is to avoid being blamed for a failure. Morality is doing what seems appropriate in the situation to get things done or doing what the boss wants. Having absolute principles is a prescription for career stagnation or disaster.
The symbolic manipulation of reality is pervasive. For any decision, managers discuss various reasons in order to settle on a way to give legitimacy for what the corporation does. Public relations are simply a tool. Truth is irrelevant.
2.
Brian Green had a question and it was simple, even the CE could have answered it without seeking advice from legal firms or possibly six or seven other council staff. "If council put restrictions on his property development group project in Pacific Drive, which included a height restriction, then why doesn’t that same restriction apply to council regarding the height of Mighty River Power’s massive wind turbines? Now that’s a fair question, being asked by a fair person who is not a anti-progress stirrer as suggested by that highly intelligent [?] councillor Broad, who wouldn’t recognise a principle if he fell over one. The CEO decided after much deliberation with possibly, a dozen staff and a half a dozen supporting councillors to toss this difficult question into the eager lap of his public relations enforcer. His answer failed completely to answer the actual question because he said " Any wind farm proposal will be subject… to and determined by an independent commissioner [s] not by council". Does this mean that the council will be appealing against resource consent for Mighty River Power when and if it makes one? Surely the principle is the same in both cases [Don’t ask Cr. Broad to answer that sticky point] and that Brian Green and the Manawatu Standard make a good point. It would seem that our sole staff member adjusts operational principles according to ‘who you are, rather that what you do’. Wasn’t it a breath of fresh air when a council up Auckland way decided to prosecute itself because it broke its own bylaws regarding the building permit issuing processes… and its CE went public to announce the fact… An example for Cr. Broad and our sole staff member to consider, maybe, but don’t hold your breath.
3. The Friends of Turitea Reserve Society are challenging the PNCC as to the legality of changing the reserve’s management plan. Like diving off a 125 metres high Mighty River Power wind turbine into our defenseless drinking water, they are leaping into the world of the unknown. The High Court is well known to our ratepayer-funded council, our citizens latest spend up there was over the Elmira Ave cock-up where we lost, but are appealing the case, after all what does the high court know anyway!
4. Letter to Editor.
Councillor Naylor, in leading the charge to depose Peter Wheeler, demonstrates a rather charming prepubescent willingness to worship at the feet of a false idol. Peter evidences the very reason why the so-called Code of Conduct is nothing more than a shallow and hypocritical device designed to conceal the very real reasons for its existence. There is, in my view, more than sufficient evidence to question the integrity of some staff members when it comes to reports reviews and responses to legitimate questions. Councillors cannot hide behind such practices and claim immunity. Our CEO himself is not immune to ignoring the principles of good conduct or from making irrational decisions. Failings which, from the beginning of his tenure, have permeated downwards and infecting others. Councillors who support such a regime would do well to consider that without people like Peter Wheeler we might still believe. That Nixon knew nothing of Watergate. That Clinton did not have sex with Monica. An MP would not have been found guilty of fraud. Lawyers and Accountants would not be in jail for destroying lives, defrauding clients and friends. Air New Zealand might have got away with blaming the Erebus crash on pilot error and Mr. Justice Peter Mahon would not have been treated so shamefully. That Neil Pugmire would not be the catalyst for "The Protected Disclosures Act 2000 - colloquially known as the "Whistleblowers Act" or that an Auckland judge would not have pleaded guilty to inflating expenses. The Code of Conduct is all the more fraudulent being confined to a select few. E Constantine
5. CEO’s self-proclaimed heroic self-congratulation memo to staff: This attached document is worth a read. It confirms all the remarks made in item one, especially the remarks about insecurity and a clear lack of confidence, it must never be forgotten that we pay this guy almost three hundred thousand. One last point, no staff have complained, the only complainant has been the CEO’s… Once again he is using staff to hide behind. The Wylie diatribe was sent to me by post by a staff member… I wonder why? Does staff fear both the CEO and his erratic behaviour? Does a persecution complex grip him? I honestly don’t know the answers to these questions but I do know we have a public duty to ask the question. To all those staff who get Wheeler’s Corner legally or otherwise let me know what you think. Even if your one of those staff that has been brought out let me know what you think.
6. The Linklater sell off report has yet to see the light of day…council decided not to receive it on the grounds that the CEO failed to ensure that it was presented in the regulation time frame. This allowed the committee chair Cr. Wall to slip free from the overwhelming opposition present amongst both the councillors and the public present. The vote six all for the public being allowed speaking rights was over ridden by her casting vote. With the CEO being away for three weeks he dodged the humbling humiliation of being chastised for failing to do his job. Was this the first indication of strike action against another committee?
Peter J Wheeler
Wheeler@inspire.net.nz
I would like to thank those who have donated to Wheeler’s Corner, while I don’t know whom you are your assistance is humbly accepted and highly valued. Thank you. If any one else would like to donate the address is Wheeler’s Corner Access Triple Nine PO Box 4666 Palmerston North.

hau 128 three sets of verbs

We have looked at verbs of movement.
Also at stative verbs.
There is another class of verb which can take the passive.
ka mahi au i te mea. I work at the thing.
Ka mahia e au te mea.
The thing is worked by me.
Note that i and ki are used differently in each class or set of verbs;
Following verbs of movement i means from and ki means to.
Following stative verbs i means by.
Following verbs which take the passive i or ki do not have a distinct meaning.
And then then there is the instrumental ki.

puff 127 Kent Lavender

Lavender Business Chosen For SME E-Business Pilot
Dannevirke business Kent Lodge Lavender now have a sophisticated new Internet presence thanks to its participation in a new initiative for businesses that want to sell more online and offshore. The Comet Launchpad Accelerator Program is a joint pilot involving the Government, e-regions, Dunedin based web specialist e-Media, Telecom, NZ Post, the University of Otago and tertiary institute UCOL. The program has the target of eventually giving over 2000 New Zealand businesses the tools and support they need to increase turnover and earn foreign exchange. The Government has approved over $500,000 of funding for the Accelerator Program, building on a commitment of several million dollars from Comet’s corporate partners. As one of only 30 small businesses that have been selected for the Accelerator Program from across New Zealand, Kent Lodge Lavender will receive a web site, technical support, high speed Internet service, sales and marketing advice, e-commerce training and mentoring. “This initiative is exactly the sort of assistance that our business needs and it has come along at the perfect time for us,” says Kent Lodge Lavender partner Malcolm Smith. “We are at the stage where we are looking to expand our horizons in terms of selling offshore and this program makes it so much easier for us. We know that we have quality products â€" the feedback from our customers confirms that. Accelerator not only gives us the tools that will help us expose our products to a worldwide audience but, more importantly, it gives us access to a huge knowledge base and mentoring network. It’s just the sort of boost that could turn our business from a part-time enterprise into a successful full-time business.” Malcolm and his wife Judith first began growing Lavender in 2000 with the first planting of 600 Lavandula X Intermedia “Grosso” cuttings. Plant numbers at Kent Lodge in High Street, Dannevirke have since grown to 1400 with an extra 350 plants being grown by friends in Masterton. The flower heads and stems are harvested by hand in early to mid-February each year and the lavender essential oil is extracted using steam distillation. The oil is then stored and allowed to mature before being used in the manufacture of Kent Lodge Lavender’s range of 100% natural, handmade lavender products. The range includes soap, liquid soap, body lotion, linen water, lip balm, fizzy milk bath and hand cream. “All of our products are 100% natural and most importantly do not contain any of the parabens found in some similar products with a synthetic base. We fail to see the logic in growing a natural product such as lavender essential oil only to combine it with a synthetic, chemical base.” Malcolm and Judith spend a large amount of time travelling in the North Island to promote their products at Expos and Craft Fairs. “We try to maintain a local profile by attending The Dannevirke Garden Expo, but we also have shows coming up in Wellington, Haumoana, Feilding, Ashhurst and two in Masterton â€" all in the 2 months leading up to Christmas. We probably attend 20 to 25 shows a year and find them to be an excellent way of maintaining relationships with our customers. We get to know them and they get to know us.” Kent Lodge Lavender products are available from several retailers including the Hokowhitu Post Shop in Palmerston North, The Barn in Norsewood, The Country Café on State Highway 2 at Matamau, and CraftWorld in Porirua. The company also takes orders by phone, fax or e-mail or orders can be placed directly at Kent Lodge Lavender’s new website at www.kentlodge.co.nz.

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puff 125 The Dalmatian relation

The Dalmation Relation
Kako si Olga!
At the Manurewa School reunion I met the lady from the IGA who I had known most of my life. She looked just like my aunt. We talked. Turned out we both traced to the same wee place in Damatia...

puff 124 Sojoes

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hau 123 stative verbs

A stative verb is one that is inherently passive
ka mau tena i a au
That is caught by me
Note that i means by

puff 122 cv

Curriculum Vitae
Peter John Cleave
2006
Date of Birth
16.2.48, Otahuhu, Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Primary and Secondary Schools
Manurewa Primary
Manurewa High School
Universities
The University of Auckland
Oxford University
Waikato University
Academic Qualifications:
B.A. Anthropology, Auckland 1966-9
M.A. (First class) Anthropology, Auckland 1972-5
D.Phil. Anthropology, Oxford 1977-1979
C.O.P. papers-three part one and three part two Japanese papers, Waikato, 1981-2
Honours/distinctions/memberships:
Founder member of New Zealand Association of Social Anthropologists
from 1975
Phillip Bagby Scholarship, University of Oxford, 1978
Rhodes Foundation Grant, University of Oxford, 1978
Wolfson Scholarship, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, 1978
Chair of South Auckland Communications Cluster group (NZQA), 1994-5
Professional positions held:
2000 Broadcaster Kia Ora FM
2002-6 Adjunct Professor Ucol
2002-6 Early Childhood Promotions Officer
1998 Senior lecturer in Rangahau and Te Reo Maoriand Research mentor, Te Wahanga Maori, EIT Napier
1998 Lecturer (half time) in research skills Victoria University, Department of Applied Social Science
1997 Lecturer,(half time) in research skills Victoria University, Department of Applied Social Science
Lecturer in Maori Studies, Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi, Tamaki makau rau campus
1996 Lecturer, Victoria SOWK, Tutor, English Dept, Paneke Community Centre, Palmerston North
Tutor, Te Reo Maori immersion, Paneke Community Centre, Palmerston North
1995 Lecturer in Rangahau(Research) Te Ara Poutama, AIT, Lecturer in Maori Studies, Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi, Tamaki makau rau campus
1994 Teaching and research at various Private Training Establishments including the Auckland Institute of Studies, Peter Cleave Campus and elsewhere, Tamaki makau rau.
1993 Teaching and research at various Private Training Establishments including the Auckland Institute of Studies, Peter Cleave Campus, Te upoko o te ika and elsewhere.
1992 Teaching and research at various Private Training Establishments including the Auckland Institute of Studies, Peter Cleave Campus, Te upoko o te ika and elsewhere,
1991 Honorary Lecturer in Sociology and social work, Victoria University, Teacher of Maori and Japanese, Wellington High.
1990 Honorary Lecturer in sociology and social work, Victoria University, Teacher of Maori and Japanese, Wellington High.
1989 Honorary Lecturer, Victoria, Teacher of Maori and Japanese, Wellington High.
1988 Teacher of Maori and Japanese, Wellington High.
1987 Honorary Lecturer, Victoria, Senior Lecturer, Waikato (on leave without pay)
1986 Honorary Lecturer, Victoria, Senior Lecturer, Waikato (on leave without pay)
1985 Senior Lecturer, Sociology and Social Anthropology, University of Waikato
1984 Senior Lecturer, Sociology and Social Anthropology, University of Waikato
1983 Senior Lecturer, Sociology and Social Anthropology, University of Waikato
1982 Senior Lecturer, Sociology and Social Anthropology, University of Waikato
1981 Senior Lecturer, Sociology and Social Anthropology, University of Waikato
1980 Lecturer, University of Waikato
1979 Lecturer, University of Waikato (On leave without pay at Oxford)
1978 Lecturer, University of Waikato (On leave without pay at Oxford)
1977 Lecturer, Department of Maori, University of Waikato
1976 Lecturer, Department of Maori, University of Waikato
1975 Junior Lecturer, Department of Maori, University of Waikato
1974 Physical Education and Drama teacher, St Stephen's School.
1973 Physical Education and Drama teacher, St Stephen's School.
1972 Physical Education and Drama teacher, St Stephen's School.
Theses
1976 ‘St Stephens School: The Traditions And Every Day World Of A predominantly Maori Boarding School’, MA Thesis, University of Auckland
1979 ‘The Languages And Political Interests Of Maori And Pakeha Communities In New Zealand During The Nineteenth Century’.Doctorate of Philosophy, Oxford University, Trinity Term
Quality Assurance Studies
A study of learning outcomes in Occupational Therapy at the Auckland Institute of Technology and Otago Polytechnic, 1993.
A study of Auckland Maori Private Training Establishments under Te kamaka o te Matauranga for Te Puni Kokiri 1994-5.
The Tuhoe schools base line data project for the Ministry of Education, Hamilton, 1996.
A study of learning outcomes at Te Ata Hou Private Establishmewnt, Wellington, 1996.
Publications and presentations
(1972) Hatupatu and Kurungaituku, Akoako
(1974) Theatrical presentation on ‘Sons for the Return Home’ to Stage One Anthropology, University of Auckland
(1976a) Wai Maori Wai Tai Dept of Maori, University of Waikato
(1976b) The history, traditions and everyday world of a predominantly Maori Boarding School, Masters Thesis in Anthropology, The University of Auckland.
(1980) ‘The Proclamation Of War’, New Zealand Association of Sociologists Canterbury University
(1981) A gun school, in The family and the New Zealand school, Routledge (Edit, Ramsey, P)
(1982) Sounds, parts of speech and phrases; a study of Maori grammar and lexicon, University of Waikato Monograph.
(1983) ‘Tribal and Pan Tribal developments in Maori Society ...’ Journal Of The Polynesian Society
(1986) Language and authority in the ethnic politics of New Zealand (Aotearoa): Aa case study of theTreaty of Waitangi in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 9 No.3 London, July,
(1987) Marking the Public Face’, The Dominion Wellington
(1988) ‘The Sovereignty Game’, New Zealand Association of Social Anthropologists, Auckland
(1989) The Sovereignty Game. Victoria University Press, Wellington.
(1990a) ‘Mountain Claiming; The Anthropologist As Ghost-Writer’, New Zealand Association of Social Anthropologists, Hamilton
Barton, B and Cleave, P (1990) Tau Kupu Ahuatanga, Auckland College of Education
(1990b) The Maori Mathematics, Paper to the New Zealand Association of Social Anthropologists, Wellington, New Zealand.
(1991a)‘Tribal Repredications’, Proceedings of the Australia-Japan Conference, Australian National University, Canberra
(1991b) ‘Revising The Warrior’ Conference Paper New Zealand Association of Social Anthropologists, Auckland
(1991c) 'Revising the Warrior' in Illusions 17.
(1991d) ‘Tribal Repredications’ Proceedings of the Australia-Japan Conference, Australian National University, Canberra
(1992a) Mountainclaiming; The Anthropologist as Ghostwriter in Goldsmith, M and Barber, K (Eds) 'Other sites; social anthropology and the politics of interpretation a special edition of Sites, Palmerston North.
Cleave, P and Knight Maloney, P. (1992b) Ahu nuku, ahu rangi; space, time and number in Maori, Koha Press, Wellington.
(1992b) Whatever happened to the pa? NZ Association of Social Anthropology Palmerston North Conference Paper
(1993) ‘Japanese Anthropology; The Management Of Elemental Forms’, New Zealand Association of Social Anthropologists Conference, Hamilton.
(1994) The Auckland Warriors, Paper to Auckland Anthropology Department.
(1995a)‘The Warrior’ The International Journal of Myth, Fantasy and Romanticism University of Queensland, Brisbane
(1995b)The Return of the Pakeha-Maori Illusions 25
(1995c) 1981 and all that, Illusions 26
(1995d) Extended Review of Martin Blythe's 'Naming the Other' Illusions 26
(1996a) The locus of intellectual property, New Zealand Association of Social Anthropologists conference Palmerston North.
(1996b)Four Films Paper to Narrative and Metaphor conference,
University of Auckland
(1996c) The Ownership World of the Maori Person Reader for students at Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi.
(1996d) Bicultural Policies, Contributor to Gary Hawke and Raj Vasil (Editors), Victoria University Press and The institute For Policy Studies.
Cleave, P. (1996e) A Decade of Illusions, English Department staff/student Seminar
(1996f) A plan for Development, Seminar to Waikato University in selection process for Foundation, Chair of Development Studies
(1996b) The Locus of Intellectual property, Social Anthropology Conference, Palmerston north
(1996g) Te Ao Hou and the Canon of Gordon Walters and Margaret Orbell, New Zealand Literature Conference, Dunedin
(1996h) Apirana Taylor, English Department, Massey University staff/student seminar, December.
(1997a) (with Tamati Cairns) Presentation of the Tuhoe Schools Project to the Minister of Education April
(1997b) Rangahau, action research and psychodrama, in Proceedings of the New Zealand and Australia Association of Action Research, Waiariki Polytechnic, Rotorua.
(1997c) Gordon Walters, Francis Pound, Wystan Curnow and the Koru (illustrated by Ahu Te One) in Illusions 26.
(1997d) Culture and Property in Aotearoa; the ownership world of the tribal person, Campus Press, Palmerston North
(1997e) Cultural Spirals, Paper to the Stout Centre, Victoria University of Wellington
1998 Rangahau pae iti kahurangi; research in a small world of light and shade, Campus Press,
Palmerston North
In Press
(to be published in 1998) Koru, Bumper Books, Wellington
Forthcoming
Who owns the koru; art, authority and Gordon Walters New Zealand Journal of Literary Studies Edited Laurence Jones.
1998 Fields of light, fields of pain; small group work in social work education in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Paper requested by the journal of the International Association of Schools of Social Work
Sports
Captain, Manurewa Primary First Fifteen
Captain, Manurewa High First Fifteen
Manurewa High School Rowing Team, Fours and Eights, 1964-5
Manurewa Juniors 1966
Selected Counties Juniors 1966
Player, Oxford University Rugby League 1997-9
Captain, Oxford University Rugby League 1978-9
Selected South of England British Amateur Rugby League Representative 1978
Player, Wolfson College, Oxford, Rugby Union 1978
Wolfson College Rowing Fours, Isis Bumps 1978
Vice-captain Waikato University Senior Reserves
Old Masters of Rugby League 1995
Touch player, Puhinui School, informal module 1995
Touch player Marist Module, Palmerston North 1996-1997, 1997-1998 seasons.
Central Falcons Board Member 2004-6
Old Masters of Rugby League 1995- 2006
Broadcaster of Warriors games in Maori 2003
Tanenuiarangi Touch Team- Founder, player and manager 2003 until present day

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hau 120 noun verb, gerund

In Maori nouns may be used as verbs and vice versa
mahi- work
te mahi- the work
mahi- to work
ka mahi au- I work
And then there is the gerund
mahinga- workings
Enei mahinga- these doings

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The Instrumental ki

In response to a puffer who asks about the uses of i and ki the first thing to do is usually to say something about ki when it is used in an instrumental way.

Ka topa au i te rakau ki te toki.I chop the tree with an axe.

Ki here means using or with. The axe is being used in an instrumental fashion to chop the tree.

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A Post for Hamlet?

Manawatu Summer Shakespeare
Hamlet: Ode to Odin
This is Hamlet like you have never seen it before!
Fast and furious action. A foreign army is in the land. The Castle is surrounded. Revenge is in the air. This is a play about War and Peace.
The Victoria Esplanade will become the Castle, alive with the action of the people who live there - including local community groups – come along and see friends, neighbours, family perform - March 9,10,11 and 16,17,18, 2007.
Shakespeare based his play Hamlet on the ancient Scandinavian legend as told by Saxo in the 12th Century – at the end of the Viking Age – in the pre-Christian period of Norse Mythology. Odin is the father of the gods, Lord of War, Death and Knowledge. He was very hot on Military Intelligence, having two ravens, Huginn and Muninn, who flew around the world every day bringing up-to-date reports. With one eye, he was a shape shifter, astride Sleipnir his 8 legged, winged horse, surrounded by his beautiful Valkyries – warrior women on winged horses who carried fallen warriors back to Valhalla to drink mead in Odin’s hall until Doomsday (Ragnarok) when they will all fight together in the final war of the world.
The image of: A Viking ship pushed out to sea, flames licking at its sail and mast as it carries its heroic cargo into the setting sun...the body of a chieftain, surrounded by gold and weapons, dignified in death even as the flames flit around his bier and the smoke obscures his outlines...
The Manawatu Summer Shakespeare will draw on this rich Norse mythology in presenting Hamlet: Ode to Odin.
Lilicherie in The Tribune

Big Ups, as they say, to all who were in the 1971 or was it 1972 production on the Bombay Hills. I copy to Leonie!
So many people were not in it!! Roy, Eric....
A Reunion for all who were not in Hamlet? Bert, Cheryl?
Coming back to the one in Palmy it looks like fun.
Who will play Hamlet?
What will be cut?

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Rangahau pae iti kahurangi
Working Introduction

This is an introduction to an introduction which became a book! Or at least it threatens to do so. A drafting process is actually under way, difficult as that might be for some to apreciate as there has been a bit of a wait on this.

Rangahau pae iti kahurangi was written originally for students doing research. It continues to be requested and this may be because of the introduction rather than the research points.
Looking back and indeed across the literature over the last twenty years there has been surprisingly little in Anthropology, Maori Studies or Education written about the procedures inside the wharenui. At the time of writing Rangahau pae iti kahurangi my research teaching was happening inside meeting houses. At the time I was working with Tuhoe people at Victoria University in the then Department of Social Work. It was considered important to use the marae as much as possible for teaching purposes, classes being conducted in week long noho or stays on marae.

The other feature which may be behind demand for the book is the idea of rangahau or inquiry. It may be that when the book came out and even now the idea of wananga was a more widely used term. These words connote similar things in that wananga means to study or even to worry an idea. Rangahau simply means to inquire and what Rangahau Pae iti kahurangi did was to outline the process of inquiry inside a wharenui or meeting house utilizing all of the cues for inquiry or curiosity that I could think of.

The first cue was the obvious one of the kawa o te whare. It seemed obvious to me at the time and I did not think much about it but thinking about it now and casting about as one does there does not seem to be a lot in the literature about it. There is a fair amount in the literature about te kawa o te marae. Many others have written about te kawa o te marae but there does not seem to be much about how things work inside the house where most of the talking at a hui goes on.

At the time of writing Rangahau pae iti kahurangi I had a job to do which was to teach research in meeting houses. I was not really looking for supporting literature but rather trying to use the house as best I could as an environment of inquiry and discovery, a place to ask questions. The book seems to have forced, among some readers a realignment of definitions: from the kawa as a process of encounter, a ritual of encounter as Salmond, after Hoffman and others defined it to my position where the kawa is a matter of question and answer, a matter of conjecture and definition, a way of exploring the world.

My personal preference has been to stay with rangahau as a matter of asking questions rather than a process of formal research. This meant that I looked into te kawa o te whare as a way of facilitating the answering of questions and advancing the understanding of a group of people involved in collective inquiry. This preference or predeliction might go with the idea of the kawa as a neans of exploration rather than confrontation or encounter.

As I see it now a set of protocols to do with inquiry are involved on the marae as well as in the house. Where I had started by distinguishing between the ways of the marae and the ways of researching in fact the ways of the marae and whare nui both, it seems to me, involve a process of inquiry and in fact this was one feature that drew me back to looking at the kawa on the marae itself. I began to see this as an aid to inquiry or problem solving.

Another major change to the writing has happened because of a change in vocation. While I was engaged in teaching inside the house for the time in which I wrote and used Rangahau pae iti kahurangi I have been employed to take people on tours of the outside of a marae complex as well as the inside in the last few years. Other differences are that where I was teaching social work students inside the house I have been mainly taking preschool groups including teachers and parents around the outside of the house and the marae environment.

This has meant a shift in locality but not in emphasis as I have continued to look at those aspects of the marae that encourage inquiry.

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Programme for Fundraise at Feilding Civic Centre Friday November 24th.

Following other fundraising ventures Tony Evans of Wing Chun Martial Arts is keen to raise money to equip the young members of the club with protective equipment.
The Programme is as follows;
4pm Building open for stall holder set up / pa system up and test prior to opening
5pm Stallholders begin trading and doors open to general public
Open mike time begins with 5 to 10minute talk spots and music preformers doing five to ten minute spots.

6.30 Three Person Indoor Touch Comp. PCCampus vs All Comers
8pm Wing Chun Presentation Dance and Preformance
Stall holders retire
9.30 Close clean secure

The stall area may be limited and stalls with a local organic and environmental flavour will be promoted during open mike time.
Garry Buckman is responsible for the allocation and invitation of stall holders.

Tony Evans is responsible for the main event ehich is Wing Chun, the door and the main food stall.

Peter Cleave is the MC.

To see video go to;

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9217327613639532403

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The Particle Ka

Known as the Inceptive ka is a future tense sometimes but it may be used to indicate any tense. It is used when telling a story and often the tense is indicated by something else in the context. For example A te Mane ka haere au- On Monday I will go or I te Mane ka haere au- On Monday I went. Here the future and past tenses are marked by A and I.

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The particles before the verb in Maori may be considered in terms of tense;
ka- future or any tense particle.
Ka haere au- I will go, I go, I went etc. The tense will be understood by the context.
Ka is sometimes known as the Inceptive tense.
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Happy Birthday Leo!!!

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Welcome to Garry Buckman of Aotearoa Waka who reports that the Wanganui Traders Market is growing from strength to strength after its first year of operation.

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Hei Tauira

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It would appear that the council is doing its normal thing...The report indicates that it was produced by one very junior staff member...in fact this report is presented in real terms by the CEO...staff produce reports for him and he as councils only staff member presents them to council...at least that's the way it's meant to be. I've tried to get a copy from the council web site but the report wasn't there even though the report was dated early October 06. It is strongly romoured that even councillors have yet to receive the report...what's new!

-------Original Message-------

From: marilynbulloch@e3.net.nz
Date: 11/03/06 08:45:16 PM
To: palmyrailwaylandreserve2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [PalmyRailwayLandReserve2] Urgent: Linklater Block Under Immediate Threat - 5:00 p.m. Mon 6 Nov 06, Convention Centre, Palm Nth.

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Shocking News out on Push Play Day Friday 3 November 2006 !
Urgent Message: Linklater Block Under Immediate Threat!
PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO YOUR NETWORKS
Be at Palmerston North City Council´s Environmental and Planning Well-being Committee Meeting 5 p.m. Monday 6 November 06, Convention Centre, Palmerston North

Below is a copy of page 1 of a 14 page report relating to item 7 on the agenda of
the Environmental and Planning Well-being Committee for Monday 6 November 06
For some reason this report was delayed and was not included as part of the original
Order Paper but if you read it you can see why.

In summary, the Council are preparing to sell a further 6 hectares of the Linklater
Block (adjacent to a block of land that is currently undergoing Plan Change 35 to an
Industrial Zone).

This is in addition to the 4 hectares that they had previously voted to sell in 2005.
The Council Officers are also recommending the revocation of the reserve status
of all the Linklater Block (excluding a 5.5 hectare reserve development) so that even
more could be sold.

Contact Marilyn Bulloch Phone 0(6)357 7338 to learn more!

Report written on 31 October 2006
Report will be considered at Committee on 6 November 2006

Project No: 265561
File No: 2460-L6-PTY

REPORT TO:
Chairperson and Members
Environmental & Planning Well-Being Committee
PALMERSTON NORTH CITY COUNCIL

REPORTED BY:
Diana Everton
Property Officer
Community & Commercial Services

LINKLATER BLOCK CLARIFICATION

REASON FOR REPORT AND SUMMARY OF REPORT

This report is presented to cover three issues:

1. in line with Council's resolution to sell 4 ha, a resolution to revoke the reserve
status is required;

2. advise of an approach seeking to purchase a parcel or parcels of land; and

3. clarify the status of any remaining land.

RECOMMENDED ACTIONS

It is recommended that the Council:

1. Note that Council officers are proceeding with preparatory work to allow the sale
of 4.0 hectares of the Linklater Block with frontage onto Roberts Line, as resolved 19
December 2005;

2. Resolve to revoke the reserve status under the Reserves Act 1977 on all of the
Linklater Block, excluding the 5.5 hectare reserve development.

3. Authorise the Chief Executive to negotiate the final dimensions, subdivision and
sale, at or above market value, of 6.0 ha land on the north western boundary, and
additional parcels up to the total of the remainder of the Linklater Block.

4. Note that any proceeds of sale(s) must be deposited into the Reserves Account, to
be applied firstly for development of the 5.5 hectares, and as a second priority to
other reserves, for example, Ashhurst Domain.

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November 34th Third Draft Programme

The BIG CHALLENGE now is NUMBERS!!!! Tony, Deon and the crew are getting the numbers for after seven, lets say, and Garry Peter and Astarte are getting people from four o'clock. Now might be a good time to think about how many people you are bringing, ringing around and talking the event up.

Some questions;
Who ae our dancers?
Do we know more people for the Open Mike sesssions- speakers, singers, hiphoppers ...
Is the kai organised? Tony's Dad is involved... Astarte might do more coconut pancakes???

4pm
Stalls and sound system set up
Garry Buckman
Open Mike Session
Folk singing
Peter Cleave
Environmental Discussion,
Gary Buckman
Food discussion
Astarte
Meal and speeches
The Show
Peter Cleave MC
Dancing
Arranged by TonyEvans
Kickboxing
Tony Evans

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November 34th Draft Programme
Stalls set up
Astarte and Peter Cleave
Folk singing
Paul Walker and Peter Cleave
Meal and speeches
The Show
Peter Cleave MC
Dancing
Arranged by TonyEvans
Kickboxing
Tony Evans

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Wheeler’s CornerÓ
Connecting Citizens Who Care
"Broadcast every Thursday at 11.45am on Access 999AM"
Contact Peter at wheeler@inspire.net.nz
42 2nd November 2006
This Week: 1. Freedom of Speech, [one]: 2. Freedom of speech [Two]: 3. Some unanswered questions: 4. Letter to editor: 5. Freedom of Information: 6. Kind words from my God.
1.
Like Mark Anthony addressing Caesar’s dead body on the steps of the forum Cr. Naylor presented his notice of motion…it was a deeply moving an almost religious plea…for the protection of his sole staff member… This oppressed and poor staff member, who had been forced to take industrial action to protect, himself and maybe even the nation from the mighty pen. Cr. Naylor knew no bounds in his plea for the protection of the poor and the needy. "Friends Romans Countrymen [and the press] lend me your ear for I come here not to praise Caesar but to bury him", oops, sorry I mean to protect him from the pen of one appointed senate member! This revolutionary member who like Cicero uses the pen instead of the sword oppresses the poor and needy. But cried a member of the forum, "He, earns three hundred thousand coins per annum and therefore can’t be considered poor and needy". "Be silent you, least you be accused of failing to protect our staff member whom we have appointed to hire the bulk of Rome’s administrative body cried one councillor Marcus Cr. Gordon Cruden in a most imperial tone. Each councillor speaking in support of the motion stated how they too felt that their selected staff member needed to be strongly supported, else he might refuse to support other vital committees [not that the Awapuni committee was vital]. Then a lone voice was heard to utter, "But what will become of free speech and how do we know that what was said was in fact not within the laws of Rome? "Because I and the mover of this motion said so and our word is law", cried Cr. Wall and we are never ever wrong…[Rome had women senators?] "I move that the question be now put! It matters not that our behaviour is just or fair, right or wrong, but that we just get on with it after all we’ve spent over sixteen thousand coin on this freedom of speech thing". So the leading Consul put the question requested by Cr. Wall and it was defeated which caused much head nodding and eyebrow raising from a dejected Cr. Wall. Later after much chest pounding, toga lifting and love of staff speeches the wayward appointed committee member was cast out to be committed to a rowing seat on the next slave ship to Egypt… And so as Rome switched from being a republic and became an autocratic kingdom the story should be over, but is it?
2.
Freedom of speech at risk… Just as the PNCC seeks to shut down wheeler’s corner by shutting down Wheeler the New Plymouth District council has forced the Taranaki Daily News to take its case to the press council. The Taranaki Daily News has forwarded more than forty complaints from the district council to the press council for adjudication. The complaints follow several months of publicity – in news stories, opinion columns and letters to the editor – about council policies. While the council here in Palmerston North doesn’t make public council complaints concerning the Manawatu Standard or the number of visits it is rumoured that they have made to its editor [s] to give them a table thumping diatribe. Our council hides behind its staff. Negative comment, regardless of its correctness or justification is considered a health and safety problem and where top management condones industrial action rather than adjudication or mediation. But now and then the CEO’s written comment leaks out. This regarding a couple of letters to the editor made the following comments. "The letters are composed of cowardly innuendo" in the same letter he goes on to say that the author should "starts writing letters based on truth and dignity, instead of cheap political manifestos". The CEO made the following comments to councillors about the Manawatu Standard: "You will note that the Standard has regurgitated it almost verbatim. No attempt was made to contact anybody from either the council or Might [y] River. So much for journalistic balance" and on the same issue [Turitea Wind Farm] "It is obvious that the society [NZ Forest and Bird Society] does not intend to let a few facts get in the way of a good story".
Now as strange as it may sound, I support the CEO’s right to free speech. Being an ex-service man I am fully aware of the brave lives lost in defending the right to free speech but I am also aware that many died in the name of justice and human rights. To call someone a coward when that person simply wrote a letter to the press, which published it in good faith is to attack the very essence of freedom of speech. I of course have been attacked by the council for publishing other people’s opinion, yet that opinion had already been expressed at a ward meeting and directly to the CEO, the Mayor, the media etc. My version of freedom of speech differs from the councils’ and that’s for sure!
Some Questions:
Why did councillors agree to a $40.000 dollar plus increase for the CEO?
Is it true that last year frontline staff had their salaries reduced as part of a restructuring or re-grading of their positions some by up to $4000,?
Is it true that it was pressure from the Awapuni Ward that saw the lease for the local tennis club approved and the sale of the Bowling club land put on the back burner.
Why was the agreement to be able to sell the land [Bowling Club] sometime in the future agreed in secret before a zone change?
Why did the CEO write to a well known citizen suggesting he was some other person of the same name and what was wrong with the letter [s] to the editor and is this normal staff behaviour?
Is it true that Cr. Gordon Cruden now represents Fitzherbert rather than Hokowhitu?
Why are outcomes from the Chief Executive’s Performance Committee kept from the public? Has the committee decided on another big lift in salary?
Why has the path leading from Buick Crescent to the park still not been up-graded as instructed by council, so elderly citizens can use it? Will it ever be done?
Will Takaro ever have a forum?
4. Letter to the editor. [Abridged]
How many road-monitoring devices were laid in Dittmer Drive for the Road Planning Department to monitor the traffic in Dittmer Drive?
Where in Dittmer Drive were they placed (house numbers will do)?
How long were they there for?
I ask these questions as road monitoring devises were recently placed in Dittmer Drive at two places, in the middle of the chicane by Awatapu School and by the entrance to Ruha Street, low speed areas I believe. The devises were in Dittmer Drive for about two days on a Tuesday and Wednesday, low traffic days I believe. I also ask this questions, if, after post construction surveys, the Road Planning Team decide to construction speed humps across the three existing chicanes, does that mean that the residents of Dittmer Drive were right all along in saying that speed humps were the correct option for Dittmer Drive?
Another questions I would like answered is when Horizon’s carry out the last of the flood bank protection scheme along Dittmer Drive? How will the contractors be able to use their carefully safety designed and prepared road from the road to the river’s edge, when the middle chicane is in the way? More money spent on repairing one part of the fence and rebuilding a track from road to river? Probably, that particular point of the stop bank along Dittmer Drive is the steepest part. I will pass the word around for Awapuni residents to contact Jono Naylor with all their queries, as he obviously has time to handle residents queries.
To Councillors who have not supported Jono Naylor, I would ask you to seriously consider how you will vote on this motion. Whether you believe in democracy that someone voted on to the Awapuni Ward Committee, not once but three times in one Council term, should stay on that committee. Or whether councillors with no interest in the Awapuni Ward whatsoever, should be able to exclude the Awapuni people’s choice till the next Council elections. Val Wilkinson14 Dittmer Drive Palmerston North 06 3572792
6.
On the very night of my expulsion we had yet another example of power over information. Cr. Kelly one of the more progressive councillors sought information via the freedom of information act back in January 06. Mr. Wylie [staff] said no, but that he could go to the Ombudsman to have the decision reviewed if he wished [That was kind of him don’t you think!]. He did and the Ombudsman agreed with Cr. Kelly but Mr. Wylie [staff] still has not done so nine months later… Cr. Kelly again requested information in the same manner regarding the Turitea Farm debate but yet again received the same response from Mr. Wylie [staff member]. No wonder councillors make decisions in the dark. It should not be forgotten that this staff member was one that councillor and mayor wannabe Naylor sought protection for from an appointed ward member. I’d say it’s the other-way-round. [See Manawatu Standard Tuesday 31st October 06] and if the staff member involved can act like this to an elected councillor and committee chairperson just imagine what could happen to an non-elected citizen who seeks information…
5.
The Roman analogy was fine, my God informed me, but she pointed out to me to stop worrying about this issue, it’s not a big deal as many Caesar’s came and went. Claudius came after Nero for example. I take her point and I’m sure the citizens will win in the end. She agreed and smiled kindly at her wayward son…


Peter J Wheeler
Wheeler@inspire.net.nz
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