Wainuiomata naming disturbs peace
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The Wainuiōmata Local Board is set to reconsider a decision it made to reject a Māori name for a new street in the Lower Hutt suburb.
Mana whenua backed calling the street Raukura, the white feather which is a symbol of the Taranaki people who settled in the area.
Despite a large Māori presence at the meeting, including a screening of a video from Te Ātiawa kaumātua Kara Puketapu emphasising peaceful co-existence and the long association Māori have had with the area, the board voted 4-2 to call the street after former mayor Harry Martin.
Wainuiomata naming disturbs peace
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Tajzhay Pouwhare, 18, and other students at Wanuiomata High School started a petition to rename Lower Hutt street names in te reo Māori. (File photo)
Harry Martin Lane was named just five days ago but already its future is in doubt, with Lower Hutt mana whenua calling the decision to reject a Māori street name “disrespectful and hurtful”. Last Wednesday, Wainuiomata Community Board narrowly voted 3-2 to name its newest street after the Lower Hutt’s suburb’s one and only mayor, Harry Martin, who passed away in 2017. However, the decision has immediately come under fire, with mana whenua calling for cultural training for board members that rejected the Māori street name put forward.