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26th September 2011

On the 26th of September 2011, Ngāti Apa Developments Ltd Directors and Management met with the management team for Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Awa based in Whakatane.

The purpose of this visit was to learn from Ngāti Awa experiences.

Ngāti Awa settled their Treaty Claims in 2005.

The team from Ngāti Apa met with the Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Awa CEO, Jeremy Gardiner, the General Manager of Ngāti Awa Group Holdings Ltd, Tiaki Hunia and the Chief Finance Officer Murray Haines.

They took most of their day out to walk the Ngāti Apa team of Toko Kapea, Tony Gray and Grant Huwyler through their settlement, their structure, their strategy and their investments.

The experiences that they shared were invaluable.

Whilst the focus of the visit was essentially commercial, the trip culminated in a visit to the newly opened Mataatua Wharenui and the Kaputerangi pa site.

This latter pa site belonged to Toitehuatahi, the principal ancestor of Ngāti Awa, and the grandfather of Whatonga, a common ancestor for Ngāti Apa, Rangitāne and Muaupoko.