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SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
Te Kanawa: kōrero master Sigrid Christiansen
A young speaker is being credited for making whaikōrero (oratory) “cool again among rangatahi”. The 16-year-old te reo talent won three categories in this year’s Ngā Manu Kōrero speech competition in Tāmaki Makaurau - including Pei Te Hurinui Jones Senior Māori. The competition attracted 60 speakers from 46 schools. Te Kanawa Wilson’s name reveals whakapapa connections to Ngāti Maniapoto and Oparure. His mum is Riria (Missy) Te Kanawa and her father, is Dan Te Kanawa. Te Kanawa Wilson’s father is the chair of the Kīngitanga advisory body Tekaumarua, Che Wilson. The student attends Ngā Taiātea wharekura in Hamilton, where staff and tauira are now “beaming with pride,” according to his Māori language teacher, Paumea Walker, who spoke to The News because Te Kanawa is in Europe with whānau. Te Kanawa was a role model lending strong support to te reo, Walker said. While some rangatahi mentally link whaikōrero with “that uncle who recites whakapapa back to the atua,” Te Kanawa was among those making it a platform for kōrero around politics and the taiao, the environment. His prepared speech, as the 30th of 30 speakers, visually channelled a role model, Kīngitanga orator Kingi Kiriona. But the message was all his own.
Starting with “Te Tiriti o Te Kanawa” he exhorted youngsters to write their own ‘treaty,’ and also to embrace the electoral process: “Vote in what you want; vote out what you don’t want,” is an English translation. Te Kanawa invoked the whakatauki or proverb “Whatungarongaro te tangata, Toitū te whenua” people pass on, but the land endures, and used loan words referencing Waitangi Tribunal proceedings – with a catchphrase asking the audience whether they’d like to “pāhi te mōtini” or pass the motion. The “energetic and focussed” Te Kanawa lives and breathes te reo Māori, and always seeks to better his language, Walker said. “Sometimes in speech competitions, you can tell an adult has written the speech and the young person has just memorised it. But he did it all himself.” The last thing that stood out about his speeches was his unique way of addressing the judges: not naming them but flinging in-jokes that fitted the theme – such as “Toitū Te Pāti Reipa” to a judge who was a Labour party representative. For Walker, it brought back memories – he won Ngā Manu Kōrero for Nga Taiātea in 2016. The Minister for Māori Development, Tama Potaka, said the number of te reo Māori speakers was expected to increase, “largely driven by our rangatahi.” “We must continue to support them at home, in our communities and schools.” • More winners, see Page 3.
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Te Kanawa Wilson is a role model showing youngsters how whaikōrero, oratory, can be used to highlight the issues that matter to them, like the environment.
A man was arrested after a Te Kūiti couple were stabbed in their Lawlor St home on Sunday. Police were called about 4.50pm after the attack on the couple, aged in their 60s. Both victims were taken to Te Kūiti Hospital and the male was later flown to Waikato Hospital. A 44-year-old Te Kūiti man was arrested a short time later after he was found walking on The Esplanade. The man appeared in the Hamilton District Court on Monday, facing two charges and was remanded in custody to appear again next Tuesday (September 24). They arrested man and the victims are known to one another, police said.
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A Te Kūiti resident tipped off police that a man had been sleeping in a car with the engine running for two hours. The call resulted in police finding $15,000 in cash, a revolver with ammo, and a quantity of meth. Ōtorohanga sergeant Jimmie Walker said police saw drug utensils when they approached the late model Audi in Hardy St on Wednesday last week. A 37-year-old Palmerston North man was arrested and charged with possession of methamphetamine for supply, possession of drug utensils and unlawful possession of a pistol and ammunition. The man was remanded to custody to appear at the Hamilton District Court on October 2.
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