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BIENNIAL REPORT2018-2020

INCUMBENT TRUSTEES

As a trustee group we want to take the time to farewell the outgoing trustees and acknowledge their service over
the past few years.
• Thank youLes for your nononsenseapproach togettingthe homesteadand grazing sorted.
• Thank youAroha for your continualdrive to progressthings,
• Thank youTui for being a quiet rockand peacemakerfor the Trustees
• Thank you Dan as the last original trustee to retire, for sticking it out with the new trustees and providing
historical context to the newbies. You have served your whanau, kept the home fires burning and supported the
ongoinglegacy of Nanny and Papa toholdthe whanau togetherandour connectedtoour whenua in Oparure.

Kia hora te marino, May peace be widespread,
Kia whakapapa pounamu te moana May the sea glisten like greenstone,
Kia teretere te karohirohi i mua i to huarahi. May the shimmer of light guide you on your way

AUBRE Y T E K A N AWA LE E - A NN E DA N I E L PI A DAVI S
For me the last 2 years being a trustee Today marks 2 years since I became a Upon reflection I can summarise this
have largely been a process of discovery Trustee. I have learnt a lot and after lots term in three words. Patience. the
and looking at how we can retool the of hard work feel we have achieved capacity to accept or tolerate delay,
trust for the future. The work done to many things. Actions that cannot be problems, or suffering without
date has been important foundational physically seen but have made a huge becoming annoyed. Perseverance doing
stuff that isn’t always recognised for the difference to how operate moving something despite difficulty or delay in
flow effect it has to everything we do forward. Just recently I have come achieving success and Resilience the
now andinto the future. across papers where Nanny had been capacity to recover quickly from
Personally I have been proud about how setting the Trust up and it makes me difficulties. To set the foundation for
our current trustee group has come more determined to strive ahead and future generations at the forefront, a
together and dealt with issues as they work hard to bring us all back home and simple and straight forward task had
have arisen and happy with how we are together again. Our Whanau should history and hurdles to overcome, just
tracking. feel very blessed to be left with all that like peeling anonion.
Ngā mihi we have. Every small step forward matters.
Aubrey Arohanui Ngā mihi
Lee-Anne Pia

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