Committee Of Management

Hepa is currently our kaumatua on the Committee of Management for Aohanga Incorporation.

He was a member of the Committee of Management from 2008 to 2002 and prior to that 15 years from 1982 to 1997, where he was Deputy Chairperson for the last two years.

Mavis is a Director, with her husband Koro, of Paewai Mullins Shearing. They have a portfolio of business interests with the core activity centring around the wool industry and business management. This fourth generation sheep shearing family business is based in Dannevirke, and employs 40 people full time with this expanding up to 100 for a four month seasonal period.

Mavis has a Massey MBA and holds directorships / trusteeships with a range of government and private business bodies including Landcorp Farming New Zealand, Poutama Trust, Te Huarahi Tika Maori Spectrum Charitable Trust, Massey University Council and Aohanga Incorporation.

Ki te taha o toku whaea ara ko Josephine Hinekura Whanarere tera
Ko Ruapehu te maunga
Ko Wanganui te awa
Ko Ngapaerangi te hapu
Ko Kaiwhaiki te marae
Ko Ati Haunui a Paparangi te iwi
Tihei mauriora
Ki te taha o toku papa ara ko Punga Barclay Paewai tera
Ko Ruahine te maunga
Ko Manawatu te awa
Ko Rangiwhaaewa te tangata
Ko Ngati Pakapaka te hapu
Ko Kaitoki te marae
Ko Kurahaupo te waka
Ko Rangitane te iwi
Tihei mauriora
No reira, ko Mavis Mullins toku ingoa
Tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa

George has been on the Committee of Management for a number of years now.

George is a Director of an injection moulding business, he is also a canoe camping operator in the Whanganui National Park. He has a long background in farming, having worked several years in the farming industry and being involved in Maori issues pertaining to Maori land.

He is a Trustee of several Maori land blocks aswell as a Lake Bed, in the Kaitoki, Whanganui area. George is married with two adult children.

Ko Rewi Tipene ahau

Tena koutou, tena koutou, kia ora koutu katoa

In my fourth term as a COM member. Two years before that as tauira. Member of the farming sub comittee holding the portfolio of forestry. Implemented Te Ata forestry syndicate.

Married to Dianne with three children Moana, Apiata and Rehutai living on a few acres in Bunnythorpe.

Trustee on two other maori land blocks. Chairman of Makaramu farm Incorporation.

Tena Koutou katoa.

Ko Dexter toku ingoa
Ko Puketoi te maunga
Ko Owahanga te awa
Ko Papauma te Marae
Ko Te Hika o Papauma te Hapu
Ko Ngati Kahungunu raua ko Rangitane te Iwi

Te Hei Maori Ora

I am on my second term as a Committee of Management member and am committed to enhancing the mana of Aohanga.

I am married to Denise and have two adult daughters who are presently doing their O.E experience.

His portfolios are:

Married to David Bullock, with three adult children and three mokopuna

Te Hika a Papauma me Ngai Tumapuhia a Rangi nga hapu.

Kahungunu ki Wairarapa te iwi, Takitimu te waka

I was educated in Masterton until I attended secondary school at Hukarere Grils College in Napier. My interest in community development has become a career and over time I have worked for Maraenui Community Trust, Department Social Welfare, Depart ment of Internal Affairs, Napier City Council, Ngati Kahungunu Iwi Incorporated, Eastern Institute of Technology, Apollo Fruit Ltd, and Paerangi Limited (Maori Boarding Schools).

I have served as a Aohanga Incorporated Committee of Management member for five years and in that time have tried to return to the whenua of Owahanga some of the aroha that was shown to me when I was a young child attending Owahanga Native School and living with my grandmother May Webster and with Aunty Kate in the old cottage.

My aspirations for the Incorporation are to protect our ancestral lands, to support our kaitiaki in their management of our customary fishing rights, to support our farm development plan, to look for ways to diversify our operation to ensure future prosperity, to get to know our far flung whanau.

Kia ora nga whanau whanui a Owahanga.

^{Ko Puketoi te Maunga}

^{Ko Owahanga te awa}

^{Ko Papauma te whare tîpuna}

^{Te Hika O Papauma te hapû}

^{Ko Rangitâne me Ngati Kahungunu ngâ iwi ki Wairarapa}

^{Ko William Webster râua ko May Power oku tîpuna}

^{Ko Alexander Webster ahau}

^{Tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa.}

^{I am married to Ann and have two adult children James and Robyn.}

^{I have 30 years farm experience and presently own and run two organic dairy farms.  I am a voluntary resource officer for Kahungunu ki Wairarapa and a trustee on the Pâpâwai Kaikokirikiri Trust.}

^{I will work towards Aohanga Station staying in Maori ownership for the next millennium.}

^{Ko Puketoi te maunga}

^{Ko Owahanga te awa}

^{Ko Papauma te whare tîpuna}

^{Te Hika O Papauma te hapû}

^{Ko Papauma te mareikura}

^{Ko Rangitâne me Ngâti Kahungunu ngâ iwi}

^{Ka heke mai ahau i a Henry râua ko Ema Power}

^{Ka heke mai ahau i a Tubby râua ko Mary Dewar}

^{Ko Anita Broughton (nee Dewar) ahau}

^{“Poua te whenua kia mau tonu” “Assert your presence upon the land, holdfast to it forever” was the ohakî or final wish of our ancestor Papauma.  I have recently had the opportunity to spend just one day on the land and I now know why she made such a wish.} 

^{Building on her ohakî my wish is for the land not only to be in our hands but for the land, water, air, sea, kai, wairua, mana and people to be flourishing, happy and enjoying the bounty of the gift left to us.}

^{My commitment as a COM member is to use all the skills, attributes and taonga tuku iho I have to fulfil Papauma’s final wish.}

^{“Poua te whenua kia mau tonu”}