Ngāti Kuri

30/10/2025

Epic week learning how to use fire to protect and restore our ecosystems! 🔥 Watch this space for more content on Te Au Ahi Tūroa

AHI
Fire has always been central to the oranga of our whenua. Guided by the Girringun Rangers, we’re bringing fire back to Ngāti Kuri. To cleanse, protect and rejuvenate our ecosystems again 🔥🌱

Watch this space 👀

20/10/2025

Nau mai e ngā whānau maha ō Ngāti Kuri!

We are hosting three inspiring days celebrating kaupapa, innovation, and community knowledge.

Te Ara Whānui Research Centre will host and facilitate the kaupapa below:

- Inspiring Keynotes from leading voices in Māori research and Mātauranga Māori including climate, weather, tohu, maramataka, housing, whenua
- Over 20 dynamic presentations showcasing iwi-led and collaborative projects
- Creative practice workshops – wānanga, kōrero, and making spaces
- Have hands-on workshops & sharing sessions including pūrākau for tamariki
- Research updates from iwi and community initiatives including Te Mana o Rangitāhua
- Taonga & resource giveaways for registered participants
- 3 Special Events to be announced before hui
- Whānau moments to connect, celebrate, and be inspired

Don’t miss this opportunity e te whānau to engage, learn, and celebrate alongside iwi researchers, artists, and knowledge holders from across Aotearoa. A full programme will be emailed to those who have registered.

🔗 Registrations open but we are limited in spaces so click to register your whānau:
https://forms.gle/L5V2djM6V63wo4jE9

Ngāti Kuri Trust Board | Te Ara Whānui Research Centre
“Tākina te moka o te pae, kia korara o parirau”

10/10/2025

Kia ora tātou ngā uri ō Ngāti Kuri!
Nau mai haere mai tātou ki te hui ā tau mō te Poari o Ngāti Kuri.

Welcome all descendents to the Annual General meeting to be held on the 6-December 2025 at 10am, Wai Ora Marae Ngātaki.

We are calling for nominations for the three electorates below. A reminder that you can only vote for those nominations in your own rohe.

One person for the Ngāti Kuri rohe, North of Hukatere and Maunga Tohoraha.

One person for the rohe of Muriwhenua, which is from Hukatere and Maunga Tohoraha South toWhangapē and Mangonui.

One person from South of Whangape and Mangonui to the Bluff and across to the Islands on the other side of the World.

At 4pm on Friday afternoon 7-November 2025 nominations will close.

Nomination forms are available on request from the Trust Board office, through our website, or can be requested via email enquiries@ngatikuri.iwi.nz. Please check our website or contact the office for candidate criteria and all other information.

Voting age is 18 years and over. We invite all those who believe they qualify to be beneficiaries of the Ngāti Kuri Trust Board (and are not currently registered) to enrol.

All contact information for both beneficiary registration and nomination forms can be found below:

Website: www.ngatikuri.iwi.nz
Phone: 09) 409 8151
Email: enquiries@ngatikuri.iwi.nz

Welcome, welcome, welcome to all our descendants of Ngāti Kuri.

This notice has been authorised by the Co-Chairs of the Ngāti Kuri Trust Board.

03/10/2025

24/08/2025

🛖🚨NEW PA KAINGA HOUSING PAGE 🚨🛖

“Whakaniko anō ai te whenua tapu, hei whenua ora. He Kāinga Pūmanawa, He Kāinga Pūmau”

Our Pā Kāinga is an iwi-led, whānau-driven housing programme, returning more whanau to our whenua and creating forever homes for our people. We have retired 61 hectares of land for iwi housing and we are building intergenerational kāinga that are mokopuna-centric, uplifted by kaumātua, and seeks to restore our connection to taiao, marae, reo and tikanga.

We have been working away at our programme for months now, and since our last post on here we have come along way from the expression of interest stage, where we have now:

- Held 7 different wānanga with interested whānau
- Started kaumātua builds (with some already lived in!)
- Made huge gains in our infrastructure programme, transforming all four sites across the rohe.

Now, we are ready to start sharing more of this mahi with you. If you are interested in Māori Housing and Pā Kāinga developments, want to know more about how to start, and want some real life project examples, with real life stories..... then follow along with our page below as we continue through this journey together, the whenua, the whare, and the whānau.

Nau mai ki te kāinga! All housing related posts will be on this new page: https://www.facebook.com/share/1E33DULnND/?mibextid=wwXIfre

16/08/2025

Aue te mamae nui! E maringiringi noa nga roimata mo to tatou taonga, he toki mahi o mua ki runga i to tatou poari. E te rangatira, haere koe ki nga tupuna e tatari ana ki a koe. Takina te moka o te pae, kia korara o parirau.

E te whanau whanui, he pānui mo nga whakaritenga na te whānau Karaka ki raro iho nei.

KARAKA, Lillian Grace

Ko te whaea te takere o te waka.
It is with a heavy heart to share the news of mums passing 15/08/2025.

Lillian is currently resting at Te Uri o Hina in Pukepoto.
Nehu to be held on Monday 18th of August 2025.
Service at 10am.
Nau mai haere mai whanau.
Come and celebrate the life of our wahine toa.

She is strength, she is love, she is beauty.
Kua hinga he totara i te wao nui a Tāne. 🕊️🕊️

26/07/2025

He Pānui Tautoko mō te Rāhui

Ngāti Kurī wishes to express our full support for Te Rarawa Kaiwhare and all our whanaunga on the west coast of Ahipara in thier active protection and safeguarding of resources within their rohe.

We also want to acknowledge the intergenerational generosity that this rohe has extended for countless tangi, hui, and marae events for communities across the motu. We are greatful and have not forgotten this. Ka nui te mihi, ka nui te aroha!

It is only right that we honour and uphold the rāhui that has been placed by them in the best interest of everyone especially thier moana and taonga. We ask all our own whānau of Ngati Kuri to support and respect their wishes for a “no take” approach until further notice, to allow time for the natural restoration and regeneration of these precious taonga. Paua is the focus at present to protect among many other taonga. We will take advice and guidance from them on this.

As this weekend unfolds and moving forward, we ask those entering our rohe to take a measured, respectful approach. Like Ahipara, we too are experiencing high levels of take and a sense of entitlement that nature can no longer sustain. We are out of balance, and it is showing. We are signalling that change is inevitable whanau however we must do right by taiao. There will be times when we will have to find solutions together and make hard and uncomfortable choices as we move into times where continued pressure and numbers of people and catches increase in our rohe.

This is a time for unity, for kaitiakitanga, and for strengthening our collective responsibility to care for the environment and uphold our tikanga.
In our rohe:
-Please only take what you need.
-If you are using a permit, only those issued by Ngāti Kurī-nominated persons will be accepted.
- A reminder that harvesting limits have been set and agreed upon by our marae.

Finally, we want to thank our whānau who have been active in patrols and upholding kaitiakitanga. Your mahi is deeply appreciated.

Ngā mihi nui,
Ngāti Kurī

17/06/2025

Morena whanau if you are around Awanui later this afternoon please come and share in the Launch of our latest whanau led research kaupapa. Nga mihi 😊

02/04/2025

He pānui ki raro iho nei. For immediate release.

12/03/2025

Te Haumihi Taiao Team in Ōtautahi continuing 4th Gen’s Te Au Ahi Tūroa kaupapa ☄️

24/12/2024

04/12/2024

Kia ora whanau

UPDATE ON AGM
Due to Tangi we have moved the AGM to Houhora Fishing Club.

10am Start this Saturday.

Nga Mihi