 kiora tātou, ngā mihi nui, ngā mihi aroha, ngā mihi mahana. Nārera, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa. Ka mihi iau ki te atoimana kineia tātou, ka mihi iau ki te kahu arihi, a Kingi Tuheitia, me te kahu arihi ki whānii tonu. Paimarewe. Ka mihi iau ki ngā mate o te raa, o te wiki, o te marama, o te tau i ngā mate, haerei, haerei, haerei ato raa. Auri iau ki te reo pākeia, kia moheo nō koe, haha ngā kūrulu. I turn to that language we all know, English, and just explain briefly what that kūrulu was all about. Before we go forward, we have to, as far as our culture previously concerned, we've got to look behind. I'm just mentioning all our loved ones that have gone before us. Every time we mention them, before we carry on with our kūrulu. That's what I've just done. I want to start off by reflecting on the day I first met Yosa. We had Waitangi Day at Marae at Ngā Pāti, and was the mayor. He says, well, I'm going to introduce you to Mohe, and he says, if anyone's going to get things done around here, it'll be him. Thank you, Wayne. I wasn't too sure what I was in for, Yosa. I wasn't sure. I thought, oh, well, he didn't want to invite me up, and he wanted some land to be blessed. I said, OK. And I came on a Thursday to have a look. He invited me to come up. We got lost. I just lost my bearing there for a little bit, but we had a look around the whole complex, and I said, oh, this is huge. So I went back and asked my colleague and said, wawrung mae, the other two kaumātua's, Crete and Raki, and we both come from the same tribe. No reflection. I said, oh, well, we've been there and done that before, but nothing this big. So they asked me, how big is it? I said, oh, about the size of two rugby fields. But by the time, it felt like four rugby fields. And you heard of an Annie nap while we had to go home and have a koro nap in the afternoon. And that was good. And when we came and we were greeted by the women's thing and the waita and the men's thing and the waita in the frontier, and that gave it that spiritual feeling. No, there's somebody, he's got to be the man of them, and I don't know who it is, but congratulations to all of you for that waita and that welcome. Then we went about and did our thing. Took a bit longer than I thought. Well, we did go home and have a koro. I know I did anyway for the rest of the afternoon. So I came the next day with Wayne and Mia from Wellington, and she asked me to get up and do her waita as well. I said, oh, no problem, what's your waita? And we got through the day, went quite well. But I apologise for not being here for the rest of the time because as you get older, the community decided to demand more of your time. So those of you around about 60, 70, you would understand. Not many of us in here, but at least you would understand that the community demands a helluva lot of your time. Another part of our job with my colleague here, Jordan, he's half Samoan, half Māori. He has a gift. He's got a disability, but he's a good guitarist. And that's the gift that comes from God. We all got a gift. Every one of us in this room has got a gift but how you use that gift, that's up to you. And don't force it. Let it come natural. Let it come natural to you. The question I wanted to ask you, I never got a chance, how do you love your enemies? Do you still use the same gift? You do. And can I answer that? You'd be the same. If you love yourself, you love your enemies the same way. Hey, pretty straight forward. But you go through, you're going to have your ups and downs through life and it's like riding a wave. You have the high waves, you have the low waves. And just follow those waves. And that's how I was called for people. That's how we do things. Riding the waves. And that's taught by, it don't come to you, it's taught by your grandparents. All that knowledge is passed on. But yeah, that's how you use the same love. The same love you have with yourself used against your enemies. You don't intentionally have enemies, but they're always there. And you've got to know how to protect yourself. And we protect ourselves by karikir, prayer. Anything we do. And that's why we are who we are. Just be yourself. Don't force it. Because when you get grey hair like a few of us in here, it comes to you naturally. And you pass that knowledge on. And the good thing with men, is you don't put dye in there. That's just natural. Before I finish up here, I've got two gifts. And I'd like to come up here, sir. Can I have you please? This is a gift from me. I give this to you. And this has got a lot to do with the land. If you look after the land, the same way you look after a woman's body, the land won't go wrong. Or just remember that. So that's for you. And the other thing I want to mention, every time you look at this, you're looking at me too, even though I'm not there. You get it? Because I'm protecting him. Because he's going to lead you. This guy, this young gentleman, he's going to lead you. Because he's got the right spirit. He's got one more gift. I spoke to her yesterday. And she said, I'm not sure they got Maori in me. Have you done some research? No. Well, that's all I want to say, Piana. Come up here, please. Because we love our sport here in New Zealand. And I only bought this the other day. So it must have been a reason. But anyway, sevens. This is the sevens. We can say, we can beat the yanks of this. Anyway, playing football. Those are our gifts that we have. Those are gifts I want to gift. That's another way of giving love. Doesn't that be an expression? Just a small gift. And they're going to remember that for the rest of their life. Because you're going to come back later. Guarantee. I like giving gifts away, because the women always come back. We have a lot of churches they come to at all my marae. I don't know where you heard where this island is, mountain Pacific. They come to at all my marae. They have Catholic and they also have Presbyterian. And of course we have also the Simon culture come to at all my marae. When I started at at all my in 1996, I was just European and Māori. And I was supposed to be a community marae. And in my own little way, I started to create this atmosphere to have all sorts of people come there. And that's why I want to invite you all down here too when you're ready. We've spoken to Joseph to come down to the marae. You want to learn the language every Wednesday. There's a group down there. You start at 7 and finish at 9. You're most welcome to come down here too at all my marae if you want to learn. Congratulations on your whakatauki when you started your first when you started your speech. 10 out of 10. Give it a big hand. And thank you to everybody else. Especially this gentleman over here. Fine, you got a gift mate. And that gift comes then. All the gifts come. Each one of us. All that gift comes from that man up there. You got a gift. Thank you. Very good. Each and every one got a gift. So treasure that gift and share it too. That's what I'm doing up here. Sharing the gifts that I have. Kawhai? Okay. Dao kia. Ka reconstruction. Ka directed by te atua me te whifingatahi tanga ki te wairu o tapu āke-āke amine. Go in peace. Ki ora.