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The nīkau palm looks like it belongs on a tropical island in the South Pacific, so its appearance as far south as Ōkarito or Akaroa is enough to stop you in your tracks.
Read MoreLooking for financial security? Don’t know where to start? Putting aside $1 a day really is the answer. Bigger and better savings and investments come when you’ve mastered the basics.
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Ngāi Tahu – Ōraka-Aparima Lucy Carter (Ngāi Tahu – Ōraka-Aparima) was awarded the only Fulbright Science and Innovation Scholarship for 2013 and will fly to the United States in August to complete her Master’s degree at Colorado State University, majoring in Environmental Sociology. Lucy was born in Christchurch and finished her schooling at Christchurch Girls’…
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Kāi Tahu historian Dr Angela Wanhalla’s Matters of the Heart: A History of Interracial Marriage in New Zealand has won the 2014 Ernest Scott Prize for history.
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For the conservationist in all of us, the sight of rātā in full flower against a backdrop of snow-covered mountain peaks is a sight to warm the heart.
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Historian Harry Evison, pictured here at an ‘A Team’ dinner in 1991, played a pivotal role in presenting evidence supporting the Ngāi Tahu Claim. Kaituhi Mark Revington reports. The first time Harry Evison met Tā Tipene O’Regan, the former was a historian who had written an interesting but largely ignored thesis, and the latter was…
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Taima van der Leden (Ngāi Tahu – Ōraka-Aparima, Tūhourangi), is the first recipient of a new scholarship established by Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu and Agria Corporation. The first Agria-Hōaka scholarship will enable Tāima to spend 12 months studying Mandarin at the prestigious Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.
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Chief executive officer Arihia Bennett
Several weeks ago we welcomed the arrival of Frida Grace into our extended whānau. The build-up to Frida’s arrival has been a world journey for my niece, who deliberately chose to return to New Zealand so that her child would be born into an environment of whānau support.
Radio host, TV presenter, mother, Whai Rawa member. When Classic Hits breakfast presenter Stacey Morrison meets other Ngāi Tahu she checks if they belong to Whai Rawa, the Ngāi Tahu matched savings scheme, and goes into campaign mode if they don’t. “It is your right if you are Ngāi Tahu to be part of Whai…
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Brett Lee, 28, is the latest from Ngāi Tahu to be invited to attend the country’s top Māori language school, Te Panekiretanga o Te Reo Māori, following in the footsteps of scholars like Hana O’Regan who attended in 2004, and Karuna Thurlow and Kari Tipa, who recently graduated.
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