New Wharekai - Te Tawaka
| Name of the wharekai | Wharekai Plans | Wharekai fundraising |
| We Need To Raise - $65,000 We Have Raised - $35,270 (over the half way mark - well done) |
purchased rau aroha see here |  Batons up draw 2 October 2011 - Organiser Te Raa Nehua, drawn by Larry and Te Kawehau. Raised $1000. |
| GOLF TOURNAMENT – Edwards Whanau Congratulations on raising $1000 for the wharekai Check out the photos from the tournament here We also had a Lotto grant of $5000 approved for a feasibility report. |  |
| Dale and Hank van Engelen Market Stall - raised $300, every little bit helps. See more photos in the photo gallery here. |  |
| Other funds from: - Pat and Lulu Edwards (Nehua) Whanau Rau Aroha (Te Raa SNR $200, Kaye Thompson $200, Annie Malcolm $200, Belinda Ormsby $200, Iris Bartlett $200) = $1,000 - Erana Kara Rau Aroha $20 - Interest on term deposit $1452 - Hapu Development Fund approved $5,000 - Ed Watene Nehua whanau, Lance Sullivan and mark and Nikki de La Rosa whanau Rau Aroha $1000 |  Larry Crutcher handing his bag of coins to Rhondell our treasurer. He saved his coins from the time we started fundraising until now. $600 rau aroha ($350 coins $250 chq) |
| Potter Whanau hangi fundraiser $635 |  Lamon, Daniel Manihera, Mark Potter |
Building the new wharekai is the second stage of our building programme.
The first stage was our wharenui Te Ihi o Nehua and the third stage will be a new ablution block.
Name of the wharekai
This name was decided when we chose the name for our wharenui Te Ihi o Nehua. The kōrero around calling the wharekai Te Tawaka was that:
· The wharenui was named after our tupuna Eru Nehua and it was only right that
the wharekai be named after his wife so the two could stand side by side –
husband and wife.
· Te Tawaka was loved and respected in her own right as a mother, grandmother,
aunty and as someone who demonstrated manaakitanga in the way she related
to people.
· In the realm of tapu and noa the wharenui is the place where tapu surrounding
manuhiri and other ‘take Māori’ are observed. One way of removing that tapu is
when people move to the wharekai to partake of kai. Eru Nehua has a high
status and his wife Te Tawaka has a high enough status to remove the tapu from
people coming forth from Te Ihi o Nehua.
Te Tawaka will sit beside Te Ihi o Nehua. Floor plans will be posted soon.
Wharekai fundraising
We need everyone to help us.
Mā pango mā whero kā oti te mahi - if we all pull together we will make it.
Fundraising PATH – the plan of how we will get our putea to build Te Tawaka.
This is our PATH - the plan for fundraising. People have signed their name on the PATH. See the PATH plan here
You can sign up as a supporter by emailing whakapara@xtra.co.nz
Supporters Names| Hank and Dale van Engelen Tepora Kauwhata, Tama Kauwhata Te Raa Nehua Jnr Te Raa Nehua Snr Jules and Maia Crutcher Rau Hoskins Peri Hoskins Te Kawehau Hoskins Ed Watene (Australia) Ngaire Shelford (Perth) Rhondell McGuire Peter Neville Mary Vogt Garth Mengelberg (Perth) Doreen Anderson Sharnne Minhinick Kim Rogers Jeannie Poutai | Larry Crutcher |
Page last updated 30 Apr 2012
