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Auckland Rongoa Meet-up 24 March 2013 -update

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Five of us met up on Sunday and had a wonderful day in the bush at Piha. It took us nearly 2 hours to walk a 45 minute track as we identified plants and shared experiences! We enjoyed the Kitekite falls before heading back for lunch. It was a great time reinforcing and sharing our rongoa knowledge. We plan to meet up again in a couple of months and hope more people can join us. Contact Judy [email protected] or Laura [email protected] to get updates on the next meetup.

 

AUCKLAND RONGOA MEET UP

24 MARCH 2013

10AM – 1PM

 KITE KITE FALLS TRACK – 

MEET AT THE CAR PARK, END OF GLEN ESK ROAD, PIHA

 Come and enjoy some time in the ngahere, an opportunity to connect with each other and reinforce our rongoa knowledge.

The plan is to spend an hour in the bush and follow on with an hour having lunch together.  We will also discuss future Auckland Rongoa network ideas.

Bring walking shoes, warm clothing, drink bottles, packed lunch, rain jacket, ID guidebooks, plastic bags and notebooks.  

ALL WELCOME

FRIENDS AND WHANAU

 Please contact: Judy Keats – [email protected]   Ph 021 635 607

or                         Laura Patterson –  [email protected]    Ph 021 129 5431 

This will enable us to inform participants for car pooling options.

Te Kahui Rongoa Trust Hui Taumata January 2013

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The following is an invitation to all Te Kahui Rongoa Members to their Hui Taumata

 

OFFICIAL PROGRAMME FOR TE KAHUI RONGOA TRUST

VENUE:  Tunohopu Marae, Ohinemutu, Rotorua

DATE:  28th-30th January 2013

TIME:  Powhiri will start at 10.00am

Sunday 27th January 2013

3.00pm Powhiri

5.00pm Dinner

6.30pm Karakia

7.00pm Te Kahui Rongoa Trustees Meeting

9.00pm Preparation and Debrief

Refreshments

Bedtime

Monday 28th January 2013

7.00am Breakfast Preparations for Hui Taumata

9.00am Fitness

10.00am Powhiri – Whakatau

10.30am Karakia

11.00am Refreshments

1.00pm Wananga Begins

Accountability Report – Trustees Rohe Representatives Reports

Nga Puhi Percy Tipene (Wakakaiora, Report – IndiaTrip), Tainui, Taranaki, Whanganui, Te Upoko o Te Ika

2.00pm Lunch

3.30pm Wananga continues Te Tau Ihu Ngai Tahu/ Kai tahu Kahungunu, Tairawhiti

5.00pm Recommendations

6.00pm Dinner

Karakia Romiromi

11.00pm Bedtime

Tuesday 29th January 2013

7.00am Breakfast

8.00am Fitness

9.00am Hui Taumata and

Activities Begin

Pou Korero tuatahi – Hohepa McLean

Pou korero tuarua – Pouroto Ngaropo

Pou korero tuatoru – Waireti Tait Rolleston

Pou korero tuawha – Maui Te Pou

12.00am Lunch

2.00pm Pou korero tuarima – Jenny Moses

Pou korero tuaono – (TBC)

Pou korero tuawhitu – (TBC) Pou

korero tuawaru – (TBC)

Panel – All of government integrated approach

Trustees: Contractual Obligations

5.00pm Nga mahi o te po

6.00pm Whakatau o te manuhiri

Te tira o Tariana Turia

Te Ururoa Flavell

Karakia mo te kai Hakari

7.30pm Mihimihi o te Tiamana

Tuku o te Taonga

Recognition Certification

Whakawhiwhi i nga tiwhikete o nga Rohe

11.00pm Whakangahau o Te po

Wednesday 30th January 2013

7.00am Karakia

Breakfast

Summary and Evaluations

Poroporoaki

Whakawhitinga o Te Mauri ki te Rohe

Transfer of Taonga/ Mauri to next Rohe

Karakia Whakamutunga

Hokinga ki nga kainga

Kia tau nga manaakitanga

12.00pm Light Luncheon/

Refreshments

Karakia Whakamutunga

 

2012 Track Clearing

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Waitaia Lodge

The weekend of December 1 & 2 2012 is our track clearing weekend at Waitaia Lodge, Omanawa, Lower Kaimais. If you would like to join us you can reserve your place by emailing Donna ([email protected]). 

We will meet at the gate at the end of Omanawa Road 9:30am Saturday morning.  Please be on time as we must all travel through a locked the gate up to the lodge together.(see below for directions)

You will need to bring the following;

– what ever track clearing tools you have (clippers, sharp spades, pick, loppers, chainsaws, hand saws etc)

– bedding (sheet, blankets, pillow)

– personal items ( clothing, togs, towels, toiletries, sturdy footwear, water bottle)

– $40 each towards the cost of kai for the weekend

Its a great weekend for us all to catch up and rekindle friendships and an opportunity to learn new things and give something back to Papatuanuku.  The Lodge is a fantastic venue for those who haven’t been there before and our hosts are just awesome.  Unfortunately our numbers are limited to 25 places allocated on a first come  basis or should I say first paid basis. For safety reasons no children please.

See directions below;

Waitaia Lodge – End of Omanawa Road, Lower Kaimais. 

Directions to meeting point:  From the north take State Highway27 (SH27) to Matamata.  Continue through Matamata on SH27 until you come to SH29.  Turn right onto SH29 heading east.  Stay on SH29 until you come to Omanawa Road on your right (Tauranga end of SH29 – you have gone too far if you reach Taurikau). Turn right into Omanawa Road and follow the road to the end where there is an open white gate.  Meet at the gate.

 

From here we will travel as a group across private land to the Lodge.  The gate will be locked after us so please make sure you are on time.

 

Contact number if you get lost is; Donna Kerridge 027 255 9534.

 

Manuka Honey Pilgrim

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Manuka honey pilgrim meets his benefactors
NZ Herald 4:00AM Wednesday Apr 15, 2009
Tom Lloyd hails a manuka-soaked bandage, made by
Comvita, for helping to save his leg.
Photo / Bay of Plenty Times. 
As the cruise liner Millennium pulled into port at Tauranga, the
sense of anticipation built in passenger Tom Lloyd – not
because he was excited to see the sights of the Bay, but
because the American was finally going to meet the people
who changed his life. 
Mr Lloyd made a beeline for Paengaroa – and Comvita – to meet the makers of the manuka honey dressings he credits with saving his leg from amputation.
The successful treatment of a rare infection – one only 27 people are recorded as having – gained attention worldwide after New York doctors used manuka bandages when other traditional treatments failed.
The kidney-transplant recipient got the infection in his right leg just days before Christmas in 2007. With a weakened immune system and the aggressive antibiotic treatment not working, the infection spread to his spinal fluid and the situation looked grim.
Doctors were able to stop the spread of the yeast infection without the need for kidney dialysis – but a sore on his leg refused to heal.
“It was swollen, yellow and green. It was like an open sore from my ankle to my knee,” he said.
“If you see the pictures, you’ll wonder how the leg even survived.”
The 68-year-old was told doctors would have to either amputate the leg or cut out the dead skin and replace it with flesh from another part of his body.
That was until a nurse suggested trying MediHoney, a manuka-soaked bandage made of seaweed that had just been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration.
“I thought great, let’s try anything,” he said.
Within two weeks, the natural remedy had done something traditional medicines had been unable to do over two months.
So, when he and wife Sally booked a two-week cruise around Australia and New Zealand, Mr Lloyd noticed that the stop in Tauranga offered a tour of Comvita.
“I knew it [manuka honey] was a New Zealand product and when I saw we were going to be in the area of Comvita, I called the wound-care nurse,” he said.
Comvita chief executive Brett Hewlett was excited at the prospect of meeting the man behind the miraculous story.
He took Mr Lloyd for an exclusive tour of the Comvita head office in Paengaroa and detailed how special the manuka honey used was.
From the very source, the beehives are positioned to avoid contamination. Once collected, the honey is treated with gamma radiation.
“It would be a very expensive honey to put on your toast,” Mr Hewlett said,
“but those dressings are edible.”
The healing properties of the honey have long been known by Maori, but now the product is increasingly in use in hospitals around New Zealand and overseas.
(Thank you to Rachel Elliot for sending us this article)