Breaking ground at the Tuwhare crib — and so it begins…

A cer­e­mo­ny held on Sun­day Novem­ber 9, 2014, at the Tuwhare Crib in Kaka Point, marked the begin­ning of the Tuwhare Trust’s work to restore Hone Tuwhare’s crib.

Gov­er­nor-Gen­er­al Sir Jer­ry Mateparae, patron of the Hone Tuwhare Char­i­ta­ble Trust, made his first ever vis­it to Kaka Point to break ground on the restora­tion project that will ulti­mate­ly be the first Maori res­i­den­cy to be estab­lished in the home and name of a Maori writer.

Sir Jer­ry said he was pleased to be a part of ”giv­ing peo­ple the oppor­tu­ni­ty to come here and sit and con­tem­plate” and engage in cre­ative pursuits.

The Tuwhare Trust was joined by Te Runan­ga o Otak­ou’s Kau­mat­ua, Edward Elli­son, whanau and friends of the Trust and mem­bers of the Kaka Point Community.

Fol­low­ing the break­ing of the ground at the crib, the Trust’s next task is to com­plete the fea­si­bil­i­ty study and con­ser­va­tion plan that will guide our work on the crib, the re-build and restora­tion of the crib will then start as we focus on trans­form­ing the crib into a res­i­den­cy and the con­ver­sion of Hone’s back shed behind the crib into a stu­dio. The Trust plans to begin this work in the com­ing months. Excit­ing times and so it begins…

Nga mihi mahana ki a koutou. XX

Images: Top to bottom.

1. Edward Elli­son and Gov­er­nor Gen­er­al Sir Jer­ry Mateparae.

2. Edward Elli­son, Gov­er­nor Gen­er­al Sir Jer­ry Mateparae, Jeanette Wikaira (Tuwhare Trust) and Rob Tuwhare (Tuwhare Trust).

3. Rob Tuwhare and Gov­er­nor Gen­er­al Sir Jer­ry Mateparae, hav­ing a giggle.

4. Rob Tuwhare, Stan Scott (Tuwhare Trustee) and Gov­er­nor Gen­er­al Sir Jer­ry Mateparae break­ing ground at Hone’s crib.