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Many happy returns Church seals deals for Waipā Iwi
Rewi Maniapoto’s kaitaka was returned to Ngāti Maniapoto on Saturday. By Benjamin Wilson In April the whenua was blessed by the church during a service that acknowledged their support for Waipā Iwi and the Anglican the hapu. Church are about to make history “The support that we offer must for the second time in a week. be real, it must be down to earth, The church will transfer the it must be total. This opportunity land deed for 61 Rangiaowhia Road to Ngāti Apakura and Ngāti for land return represents something of that support today Hinetū during a ceremony on and forever,” said Archbishop Saturday. Philip Richardson. They purchased the historically The upcoming transition of significant whenua from a private ownership comes just a week after seller in March, with the intention they returned a taonga to Ngāti of giving it to the mana whenua when they were in a position to Maniapoto in honour of Te Pūtake purchase it for themselves. o te Riri, He Rā Maumahara – a
Commemoration of the New Zealand Land Wars. Last Saturday the Church returned a chiefly kaitaka (cloak) that belonged to the Ngāti Maniapoto chieftain Rewi Maniapoto to his iwi during a service at Ōrākau. “It was a great privilege for the Anglican Church to be asked by Ngāti Maniapoto to find and negotiate the return of the unique kaitaka of Rewi Maniapoto,” said bishop David Moxon. Rewi was a leader of the Kīngitanga movement, and played
a critical role in defending Ōrākau Paewai during the Waikato Wars of 1864. Moxon said his kaitaka was lost in a linen cupboard in England for 140 years. “Because the family who owned it were Anglican, Maniapoto approached the Anglican Church to talk to them about getting it back,” he said. Rewi gifted his kaitaka to a pākehā neighbour, Thomas Grice, as an offer of reconciliation and renewed partnership in 1878. But Grice returned to England
Photo: Waikato Tainui and Rewi’s cloak was lost to history until it was rediscovered by a descendant in 2019. “We then arranged a slow and confidential process to secure it,” said Moxon. He said that Rewi was a supporter of the first missions in the Waipā area in the mid-1800s, and that the church’s help to return his kaitaka “was a way of respecting that partnership.” “It was an act for both parties to meet again under new circumstances.”
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