1976: Manurewa Marae Project Society

June 27, 2025

By AHNZ

The Manurewa Marae Project Society (1976) led to Manukau City Council handing over a plot of land in 1986 and the new Meeting House in 1999.

The government gambling lottery provided $200,000 for this. The ASB Trust gave $311,000 for the House and the government alcohol cartel Wiri Licensing Trust) handed over $100,000 for furnishings. Unfortunately most Maori cultural institutions owe their existence to government money rather than the achievements of the people who make them up and credit themselves. Ref. manurewamarae.co.nz/history

The CEO of Manurewa Marae was Takutai Tarsh Kemp who used it as a polling place during the 2023 election. Her Maori Party also is under suspicion of subverting government census data for vote-targeting which would be electoral fraud. The Maori Party would not back down about this. But, nor could The State admit that the 54th Parliament, its MMP overhang, and all the laws the Coalition Government has passed must come under suspicion.

How to resolve this issue?

A Buy Election would be ideal, a re-set. But wouldn’t the reason for such a thing also be a reason for why this Parliament had been corrupted or pretend since 2023? The laws…vanish in a puff of smoke?

“30 September 1984, Manukau City Council formally hands over a four-acre site on a reserve in Finlayson Avenue to the Manurewa Marae Project Society as the planned location of the Manurewa Marae.” – Manukau’s Journey, Auckland Libraries

“20 November 1999, The new whare nui at Manurewa Marae is opened.” – ibid

Heather du Plessis-Allan: Did you see Takutai Tash camp yesterday?

“Thomas Coughlan: Yeah, did she was in the debating chamber.  She looked perfectly healthy and normal. It was a shock to me, just like I was the shock to everyone in Parliament.

Heather: Yeah, and so do we know what happened last overnight?

Thomas: No. – Ref. Thomas Coughlan: NZ Herald political editor on the tributes for Te Pāti Māori MP Takutai Moana Natasha Kemp, Newstalk ZB (26/6/205)

This problem could have only been solved if Kemp would just go away! Go sailing with Mike Lynch, won’t you? “Died with COVID” used to be close enough in people’s minds to “Died of COVID” so….she had renal complications, kidney sickness, as the media keep banging on. However nobody can quite say that this was the cause of death. The woman was alive and well the day before. Hopefully we’ll know more soon after we get past the silly cultural practice of not speaking ill of the dead or dealing in facts that might hurt someone’s feelings.

According to their own history site Manurewa Marae started off with humble beginnings in 1976. A group of young families met together to discuss a dream. “To build a bicultural Marae where all people can gather, to meet, to sing, to cry and to learn, but mainly perhaps to understand and help one another in making our society today and in the future a more harmonious place to live in. There are many people, both Maori and Pakeha who feel that unless we teach and preserve all aspects Maori it will be lost forever.”

Then came the government money and the Marae became exclusive and political. A Maori Party (aka Te Pāti Māori) stronghold. A Buy Election is on the way and next time Manurewa Marae will have to decide if it wants to remain a political castle or a polling place. My prediction is that they will choose politics and eventually go down in flames with John Tamihere’s empire when it has its final, protracted, comeuppance. On the other hand, perhaps they will remember their roots and take another path before it’s too late.

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Image ref. RNZ/Marika Khabazi

Ref. Died With Kidney Disease, NZB3

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