We've added a new section to our website where it is easier to find whānau, hapu and iwi pānui. These include Annual General Meeting notifications, whānau hui, special events, and more. 

If you would like to submit a pānui, please send an email along with the details to info@ngatirangitihi.iwi.nz.

Check out what is happening amongst our communities, by clicking on one of the links to the right.

New Zealand's Got Talent is coming to TV ONE and producers want you to show them what you, your whānau and your friends have got! Whether it's a solo act or a group performance the producers are looking to celebrate talent across the board including singers, musicians, dancers, drummers, cheerleaders, gymnists, animal trainers, magicians, kapa haka wizards and more.

The doors are open to everyone of any age with auditions being held all across the North and South Islands during May and June. The TV ONE show will be hosted by Breakfast Weatherman Tamati Coffey (Te Arawa).

There is no cost to enter and first prize is $100,000! Application forms can be downloaded from the TVNZ website (www.tvnz.co.nz). 

Tumahaurangi Trust is on the search for 150 students to take part in its Construction Trade Training course with the aim of assisting with the Christchurch rebuild. 
 
The Certificate in Pre-Trade Training course, with units in Carpentry to Level 4 (NZQA accredited), is 41 weeks in duration and offers students theory, onsite-house construction and off-site work experience.

Students (16 years and over) can start training now in Rotorua and there is the opportunity to go to Christchurch to work with an employer as an apprentice.

To find out more about this fantastic opportunity call into the Tumahaurangi Trust office at 57 Pererika Street, Rotorua and ask for Melody. Alternatively, you can call one of the following people: 

Rongo Puha: 07 3487090
Melody Wilson: 07 3497090
Tiweka Anaru: 07 3460095     

The Crown invite Māori Trusts and Incorporations, Whānau, Hapu and Iwi to attend one of a series of regional hui to hear from Crown officials on what updates are being proposed to the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme.

The proposed updates are important and will impact all businesses and households.  

These hui will provide an opportunity for Māori with business, forestry and farming interests to hear firsthand the proposed changes and discuss their implications.

Additional public meetings, that forest owners and landowners and other interested parties may want to attend, will also be occurring in Gisborne, Christchurch, Nelson, Rotorua, and Whanganui on the same dates and additional meetings will be held in Whangarei and Balclutha. See www.climatechange.govt.nz for more information.

The hui agenda will include: To hear the Crown proposals to update the Emissions Trading Scheme; To provide initial feedback to the Crown on the Emissions Trading Scheme updates; and to understand the process and timeframes to make submissions on the proposed Emissions Trading Scheme amendments.

To find out when the next hui will be held in your area, click here. 

The Bay of Plenty Regional Council is calling for public submissions on its draft Ten Year Plan for 2012-2022.

The Draft Plan describes what the Bay of Plenty Regional Council proposes to do during the next 10 financial years.  

It talks about what work will be funded, the costs involved and how it will be funded.
 
Council is also seeking public submissions on three other statements of proposals. They are the:
·         draft Section 36 Resource Management Act Charges and Port Charges 2012/2013 policies
·         draft Policy on Remission and Postponement of Rates
·         draft Policy on Development Contributions and Financial Contributions
 
For more information please click on the following link (BOPRC's draft Ten Year Plan 2012-2022).  On this page you can download the full draft Plan, a Summary of the draft Plan, plus the other documents that the Council is consulting on. If you would like a hardcopy please contact Matt Cowley on 0800 884 881 extension 9352, or email your request to tenyearplan@boprc.govt.nz.
 
Some key dates in 2012 for consultation on the Draft Ten Year Plan 2012-2022 are:
·         Submissions open Tuesday, 27 March 2012 and close 4.00 pm Friday, 27 April 2012
·         Hearings will be held from 16 to 18 May 2012
·         Council deliberates on Thursday, 31 May 2012 to Friday, 1 June 2012.
 
It is anticipated that the Plan will be adopted in late June and will become operative from 1 July 2012. 

In 2012, the Electricity Supply Industry Training Organisation (ESITO) is holding free industry taster courses. One of these courses is being coordinated by ESITO in conjunction with Ngāti Tuwharetoa Trust Board and will be held during the July school holidays from 9th to 13th July, 2012. 

Based at Rauhoto Marae in Taupō, the course is a five day residential and includes fieldtrips to generation sites and other activities. This course aims to showcase mechanical and electrical trades and other careers within the electricity production industry. Applicants will be screened and selected to ESITO standards. 


Click here to download the information brochure and registration form.

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Me matatau te kai tono ki te kōrero Māori. Ka whai koha ia ki ngā tikanga me ngā kawa o Ngāti Rangitihi, o Te Arawa whānui. Ka kaha hoki ia ki te arahi i te whānau i roto i te kaupapa.

Ngā tohu e awhina ai to tono:
·        Tohu Whakapakari
·        Raihana Taraiwa Motuka
·        Tiwhikete Tūroro

Mo te roanga atu o nga korero e pā ana ki tēnei tunga, whakapā mai tō tātai oranga ki te kaitiaki tari, ki a Te Paea Hunuhunu. (07) 322 2603 whanau@k12e003.kohanga.ac.nz 

New television commercials are encouraging women to ‘get the girls out’ and go for their free breast screening. And you’d better listen, because the message is coming from ‘aunties’ Ella Henry and Whetu Fala.

In the ads, Ella and Whetu talk to women and men about why regular breast screening is so important. They explain how breast screening can find really tiny cancers, that can’t be felt. Finding breast cancer early means you have a better chance of beating it.

Jacqui Akuhata-Brown from the Ministry of Health’s National Screening Unit says it’s about getting all the ‘girls’ in your life out for their breast screening.

That might be your sister, your aunty, your mother, your cousin, or your friend. Anyone who is aged between 45 and 69 can have free breast screening through BreastScreen Aotearoa.

“And it’s really important to have breast screening every two years, because breast cancers can grow in that time and you want to find them while they are still small.”

She says the new television commercials use humour – an approach that has worked really well for the National Cervical Screening Programme.

“The cervical screening ads are very popular – particularly the one where the ladies are collected in a van and all go off to have their smear tests. We hope the use of humour in the breast screening ads will likewise encourage women to have regular mammograms.”

Women aged between 45 and 69 who are not already part of BreastScreen Aotearoa can register to enrol on-line by going to www.breastscreen.govt.nz, or by ringing the freephone numbers 0800 270 200 or 0508 THE GIRLS.

To view the ads, go to www.nsu.govt.nz/current-nsu-programmes.