E-Panui February 2008                                                                             E-P # 12

Mana Magazine
February / March 2008

Tena ano koutou

In this issue of Mana we farewell Aotearoa’s best loved poet, Hone Tuwhare, in fitting style with specially written poems by fellow poet, Glenn Colquhoun, and by Hone’s biographer, Janet Hunt.

 

 

Mana editor Derek Fox reflects on Waitangi Day 2008 and suggests that the days of mud and the blood at our national day commemorations may be all but over. We asked a number of commentators, Pakeha and Maori, to tell us what the Treaty means to them in 2008. And after a year of spectacular erosion of Maori sovereignty in this country, Maori Party MP Pita Sharples makes a plea for honouring a Treaty which he says has slipped under the radar of responsible government in this country.

 

 

 

In this issue too, we visit the grave of Waitangi’s forgotten man, Captain William Hobson, and try to unravel the mystery of why the Auckland City Council chooses to decorate this historic grave in a rather eccentric way.

 

 

 

 

The tiny town of Te Araroa on the East Coast now has its own version of the famous Running of the Bulls in Spain. A Spaniard called Manuel Jose who came ashore on the Coast in 1835, ‘married’ five sisters. This early version of Big Love produced an abundance of descendants, known locally as ‘Paniora’ – the Ngati Porou Spaniards. The whanau all get together every so often, but this New Year they excelled themselves with a street pageant, a ball - and the bulls. Mana captures these celebrations on camera in a colourful photographic spread.