Please click the link https://youtu.be/yYfghhMjWQI to view the YouTube  video released by the Ministry for Environment  featuring  John Wilkie

The Marae office will be closed from 5pm Friday 22rd December 2017 to 9am Monday 8th January 2018.

For any urgent enquiries, phoning the office on 03 689 4726 will transfer you to the Runanga Chairperson.

The Staff would like to wish whanau a safe and happy Christmas period.

In 2016 the Runanga entered into a MOU with Department of Corrections – Ara Poutama Aotearoa to propagate native plant seedling. These seeds were collected within our takiwa  by whanau and then sent to Milton Correctional Centre where they were divided with half of them be sent to Invercargill Correctional Centre. Recently the office sent 2000 potting bags to Invercargill as the seedlings needed repotting as they have outgrown the recycled milk cartons they  started their journey in.

Horticulture Instructor Kara from Invercargill Correctional Centre sent the photo to show whanau of the progress to date. Hopefully we will received the  native seedlings in late 2018 where they will spend some time in the  shade  house in the Marae garden before being  replanted.