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Tēnā koutou katoa As many of you who regularly read our FB posts will know, in early October we learned via that same page that we were to appear before the MLC on November 18. This application for hearing was lodged by Tiraroa Bucknell-Webb, a current Committee of Management member. Tiraroa’s application to the MaoriContinue reading “Maori Land Court Hearing”

Pakihi Hou / Riverhead Bed and Breakfast Renovations to transform Riverhead from a private dwelling to a fully functioning Bed and Breakfast kicked off in mid July with the intention to re-open at the end of September. Like everyone else, we now have to go with the flow until travel restrictions ease. That said, muchContinue reading “What’s Happening”

Below is an excerpt for the Utakura Housing Report written by Kristen Maynard and published in September 2020. Although it has been written with very little in put from the Committee of Management, is does however, with uncanny accuracy, mirror every aspect of the body of work we have set for ourselves in our KaContinue reading “Ka Tu Kainga Rua”

Utakura 7 is planning to start the first of many new papakainga projects this year. While this may bring a sense of excitement and create a pathway home, it is important that we balance the desire of our whanau to return to their turangawaewae with our collective duty of Kaitiakitanga. To this end, we haveContinue reading “Tiakinga te Whenua”

Ka Tu Kainga Rua A joint project by  Utakura 7 Incorporation and Utakura 7 Charitable Trust Our Vision That the shareholders and beneficiaries of Utakura7 shall live prosperously in healthy, thriving, well-educated communities always strong in the knowledge of who we are while holding tightly to the teachings of our tupuna and our whanaungatanga BackgroundContinue reading “Ka Tu Kainga Rua”

World Famous in New Zealand: Hokianga’s Māngungu Mission House Perched on a hill overlooking the Hokianga Harbour, and right on the Twin Coast Cycle Trail, this neat and satisfyingly symmetrical cottage has a big history for a building so small. Built in 1838 by the multi-talented Wesleyan Reverend John Hobbs, it was the venue forContinue reading “Mangungu”

After many missed deadlines the northern-most of the 22 Great Rides that make up the New Zealand Cycle Trail is open all the way from Opua on the east coast to the Hokianga Harbour. Phil Taylor reports from the Twin Coast Cycleway.By Phil Taylor (reposted) There were real concerns this trail might never be finishedContinue reading “Cycleway”