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Letter: Te Akaepaepa anga o te 60 Mataiti  

Thursday 16 January 2025 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

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Letter: Te Akaepaepa anga o te 60 Mataiti  

Dear Editor, Kia Orana e te iti tangata Kuki Airani I te aroa maata o to tatou Atu ko Iesu Mesia. Te karanga nei te aposetolo Paulo “E rekareka rai” Philipi 4:4.

E mataiti maata teia I roto I te tupuanga o te basileia meangiti. Te akaepaepa nei tatou mei te ra tai o Tianuare 2025 e tae ua atu ki te marama Titema 2025. Kua tata atu au I te tuanga tai I te metua tane akamoeau koia a Papa Arapati Enere e tei tupu I te ra 4 no Aukute 1965, i riro mai ei tatou e iti tangata na tatou rai e akatere e te tikaanga kia piri vaitata ua atu rai tatou kia Nu Tireni.

Ko te tuanga rua teia.

Tetai au mea tei tupu I te mataiti 1965 e tae ua mai ki teia mataiti 2025.

E te au taeake ma te au tuaine I te mataiti 1968 kua tae mai tetai patianga kia Papa Arapati Enere Peremie o te Kuki Airani, mei ko mai I te Prime Minister o Australia Ko Mr Witlaw. Kia tuku ia atu tetai pupu ura ei kauono I te Kuki Airani note 200 mataiti o Captain James Cook ki Australia 1970. 

I te mataiti 1969 kua ariki a Papa Arapati Enere o te Kuki Airani kia turou ia teia nga tangata no Australia mai. Ko Beth Dean e tana tane ko Victor Carnell e World professional raua no te ura ballet. I te marama Tianuare kua ariki te cabinet kia kapiki ia te au mapu tane e te vaine note maitianga i tetai au tangata ura. Ei kauono I te Kuki Airani ki teia 200 mataiti no te aka-rarangianga ia Captan James Cook tana I rave no Australia.

Kua raveia te maitianga o te aronga pakari tane e te vaine, te au mapu tane e te vaine no te ura e pera katoa te aronga rutu pau e te au tangata maani rakei. Kua rauka mai mei te 250 tangata tei maiti ia. Kua raveia teia angaanga ki roto I te Tupapa Nui packing shed.

I roto I te 250 au tangata tei maiti ia mai, teia to ratou au ingoa. Te au papa e te au mama pakari. Periteni ko Papa Araitia Tepuretu MBE, akatere tarekareka ko Papa Ota Joseph, tona tauturu ko mama Tere Rima. Te au mama pakari ko Mama Matakeu Tepuretu, ko mama Tutai, ko big Mama no Atiu - te au papa ko papa George Karaponga, ko Matau, ko Teau Aiturau. 

Te aronga rutu e te imene, ko Tere Rima pau mango, Tupai Ama Jnr pau maata, rutu tini ko George Aporo Willams, rutu takirua ko Tere Nicholas, rutu taki tai ko Ota Joseph.

Tamariki tamaine ko Vaine Turepu, Clark Anna Short, Christine Hosking Manuel, Tatakura Tatakura, Tereinga Pakura, Tapu Goldie, Maruata Pureau, Teina Pierre Etches, Tepaeru Tiputoa, Mii Ben Marsters, Alice Story, Mary Oti.

Tamariki tamaroa ko Ngarima George, Daniel Apu, Ruapu Matapo, Puna Puna, Waiva Mataora, Phillip Ben, Tumupu Tumupu, Tamatea Teretai, Tepoave Raitia, Noovao Noovao, Vavia Tangata, Ngatokorua Patia.

Kua rave ia te tereni anga I teia au tangata tei iki ia mei te aiai Monite ki te aiai Sabati. Ite mataiti 1970 i aere atu ei te tere ki Australia. Te manitia Ko Percy Henderson e ko te chaperon o te tamariki tamaine ko Mrs Maria Henderson. Standy by – ko te ingoa tei topa ia no teia pupu, ko te Cook Islands National Art Theatre Dance Company. Kua kauono teia pupu I teia basileia ki te Sydney Australia bicentennial.

First South Pacific Festival Arts of Fiji 1972, 2nd Festival Arts ki Rotorua New Zealand 1976. I te openga o te 1976 kua topiri e kua akangaroi teia pupu CINAT. Ko tetai teia o te high light (akangateitei) I teia basileia, mei te 1969 e tae mai ki te 1976 e au tamariki ou tei tapiri atu ki roto I te pupu ura CINAT.

I roto I te au pupu o te CINAT mei te 1970 ki te 1976, e maata tei topa ki te moeanga roa e toko iti ua te ora mei. 

Akamaroiroi anga no te au vaine nei:

Ko koe tei meitaki I te au vaine katoa o te enua nei, no tatou no te au tane e tuatua ua mai koe te akarongo atu nei te tavini’. -  Luka 1: 31 -34, 1 Samuela 3: 1-10.

Kia Manuia i toou kapikianga ia mai e te Atua. 

Kia Orana e Kia Manuia. 

Ngarima George

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