Thursday, 29 April 2021, 5:29 am Waiata, hongi, hugs and kisses followed today’s Wellington City Council vote to add mana whenua representation to Council committees later this year, with representatives both having a vote and being paid. The Council voted 11-3 to enable one representative each from Taranaki Whānui ki Te Upoko o Te Ika and Ngāti Toa Rangatira to sit on each Council committee and subcommittee and have voting rights, from 1 July. The arrangement would not extend to the Council’s CEO Performance Review Committee, the city’s two community boards or District Licencing Committee. The recommendation stems from a