Te Keepa Te Rangihiwinui (Major Kemp) was the main negotiator with the government in the 1800s in the Horowhenua and was coerced by Government agents and lawyers but now the social service org called the MTA or Muaupoko Tribal Authority want to be the sole negotiator and not allow direct claimants the right to be a part of the Wai negotiations. Te Puni Kokiri are no different, and as for Pita Sharples of the Maori Party he is too busy to reply to us. Next page is a good example of how they are allowing one party only without meeting with the other party. Why have TPK not sort or met with the majority of claimants? why have a formulated draft plan without mentioning the majority of claimants views? The draft is what was circulated to members of Muaupoko. It looks like the cluster group are part of the MTA and no mention that this group are not affiliated with the MTA. This is an atrocious document prepared by TPK. There are 2 stories not just one. What about us Kaumatua, leadership etc and tikanga & tell us where the leadership in the MTA as there is none??

THE MAORI PARTY

Māori - Our name, our foundation as a country, our values and aspirations for New Zealand; an affirmation of tangata whenua;--or is it when the Crown will not abide by the Treaty of Waitangi & the Maori Party have aligned with National?

• Maori Party - Upholding indigenous values to ensure our country maintains its natural beauty and is home for all New Zealanders; yet in between the party members cannot set an example
• Rangatiratanga - Te Tiriti o Waitangi clearly confirmed tino rangatiratanga or Maori sovereignty over all things Maori (Article 2). Rangatiratanga approximates to oversight, responsibility, authority, control, sovereignty, of te Ao Maori, the Maori world. Yet where is there leadership? One must remember every minority party that aligns to National even though they have good intentions will fail eg. Alliance etc. So in saying that Flavell has a battle to convince voters they are not into this for the perks of the jobs but maybe its time to balance their positions and cop out of a National alliance favouring Labour.

For us in Muaupoko they: Pita Sharples finally managed to tell TPK to meet with us and take on board what we sent him. Tariana Turia, Flavell & even Hone have never bothered to get back to the concerns that so present themselves and Tariana in all her statements of helping Maori never sent a reply. To be expected we guess as their parties disintegrate due to not compromising their positions and especially the Maori party aligning to National.

As a Maori, it is in their interests to look at the Muaupoko Tribal Authority [MTA] and for the future of our tribe's well being as at the moment they the MTA deliver nothing. Our whanau our future is the motto but do they really care when you have a false bunch of Maori pushing for direct negotiations for a few not "our whanau" that is finally coming out of the open as corrupt & ineffective? or do they have the blessing of CFRT & others to continue without investigation.

THE BEGINNING OF THE END FOR THE MAORI PARTY WITH ONE WITH HONE BEING LEFT WING AND THE OTHERS RIGHT WING. YOUR VOTE IS LOST IF THEY STAY LIKE THIS but now its worse with Sharples quitting? But guess what those he propped up in the Maori Trustee [ Tu Tumu Paeroa ] , & others will now offer him a position + the many commissioner jobs he can look forward too so he will not lose anything apart from his mana to those voters. Wait and see.

Maori got disillusioned when the Maori Party aligned itself to prop up a National-led minority government for close to two parliamentary terms. As Turia said, its a question of sitting on the side-lines or being a player or was she thinking for herself being an MP. By doing so the Maori Party is now discovering what they did was not for Maori.

MAORI PARTY LOOSES Ikaroa Rawhiti by-election

The latest Ikaroa Rawhiti by-election Sunday 30th June 2013 saw Labour’s newest MP, Meka Whaitiri win the seat by a majority of over 1500 votes and the Maori Party now scratching for survival. Maori Party result, their candidate Na Raihania won 20% of the vote about the same he got in the general election. But the Mana Party went well past the Maori Party to take second place. Dr Sharples said Te Ururoa Flavell’s leadership challenge was a cause in their loss as voters now see the Maori Party as a defunct party. What you have is a left-wing and a right-wing Maori party as both Mana & Maori party got more votes than Labour together. However due to their fracture & fighting typical in all Maori you have only room for Maori to have political power with one Maori party not 2. Remember Hone Harawira left the Maori Party so they could have won this election if they stayed together. Its too late now and your vote today is a wasted vote if they stay like they are.

THE EFFECTS ON US:

Our people have no work, no guidance from the MTA and theres no vision for the future & no leadership as those kaumatua are brushed aside. No Kaumatua meetings since 2011 when even that meeting was scuttled before it started and their last AGM attended by 21 yet needed 25 present to hold a quorum. What does that tell you?

They know it, they receive our mail, they do nothing and when they do its because Winston Peters reads the same and asks questions. Should we vote for the Maori Party or NZ First now? and why be on the Maori roll that will never help Maori especially with a Maori Land Court who allows only voting by show of hands not by shares in blocks & us owners left out of our lands in favour of non owners running our lands as with the Lake. Then we have a defunct Domain Board?? Trusts are dysfunctional due to the Maori Land Court's inability to carry out and complete court cases as they are too scared to act as they should be. More often than not they sit on the fence "as they are referees" quoted Laing Harvey in Court whom we were told had little to do with Maori during his law days????.

As for the Maori Party with their own infighting to be the boss we tell everyone maybe you need to rethink if your vote is wasted & they are not doing what you perceive to be right. Should you now consider to get off this Maori voting system as its not representative of you. Is it money----power---greed for those 3 MPs?? Do you think its a wasted vote. If they cannot answer our mail they should not be wasting tax payers money being an MP. Even Tuia's son came into our rohi to try to dictate to us not hearing both sides of the story yet favouring an MTA that ruled by a few the easy out. Then we Have Wiri Gardener coming in to look at our Lake issue and again siding as he does not talk to us owners and claimants?

When an MP has to go around the circle to answer an MP yet not the writer something is wrong in the case of Pita Sharples. Is it time to get a better voice by going on the General roll by July 2013 & throw the Maori roll in the bin

No veting of who voted and if they are members of Muaupoko via whakapapa allows this voting process to be fraudulent due to some voters being minors in name