‘Fill the basket of Knowledge”

Ngāti Porou,  Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki

Sofie completed NCEA Level 3 at Rangi Ruru Girls’ School in Christchurch in 2025 and will be attending the University of Otago to commence her first year of study. Sofie will be studying towards a Bachelor of Commerce degree, majoring in Finance, and a Bachelor of Science degree, majoring in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Sofie plans to use her study, skills and experience to help her iwi, hapū, whānau and other Māori. Sofie believes it is important to have financial advisors who understand kaupapa and tikanga Māori, to help and advise iwi and hapū in the future. Sofie hopes to work overseas in the future, and use this experience and knowledge to further help her people.

Jayden Smith

Ngāti Whakaue, Te Arawa, Ngāti Manawa, Ngāpuhi

Oranga Maxted

Te Arawa, Ngāpuhi

Oranga completed his Diploma in Business (Accounting Strand) from Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology in 2025. Since gaining the foundational skills of an accountant through his Diploma, he has been inspired to pursue a Bachelor of Accounting and work towards one of his long-term goals of becoming a Chartered Accountant. One of Oranga’s career aspirations is to overcome resource limitations for Kura Māori and provide a gateway into corporate finance by applying his skills to teach his knowledge to Kura Kaupapa Māori.

Luke Westrupp

Te Arawa, Rongowhakaata

Luke is currently studying towards a conjoint Bachelors degree in Law and Accounting at the University of Auckland, with the intention to continue towards his Chartered Accountant (CA) accreditation. Luke believes his studies in law and accounting positions him well to contribute to Māori economic development, financial capability, and long-term wellbeing of whānau. Luke is committed to supporting whānau through culturally grounded financial guidance, contract management and support, and long-term financial planning. Ultimately, Luke’s aim is to contribute to whānau Māori prosperity and intergenerational success.

Nathan George

Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Manawa, Ngāti Whare, Tuhoe, Te Whānau-a-Apanui, Ngāti Tuwharetoa

Nathan is currently studying towards his Bachelor of Commerce degree, majoring in Business Management and Accounting. Nathan also plans to pursue his teaching diploma with the goal of empowering young Māori and Pacific Islanders through education. Nathan’s aspiration is to develop the knowledge and expertise through his studies to support the economic development of Māori and Pacific Islanders and to ensure sustainable growth. By obtaining this qualification, he believes he will be better equipped to contribute to Māori financial and educational initiatives and help foster opportunities for future generations.

Tiaria Maniapoto

Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāī Te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāti Pikiao, Tūhourangi Ngāti Wāhiao, Ngāti Tuwharetoa

Tiaria is currently in her first year, studying towards a conjoint Bachelors degree in Art and Business at the University of Waikato. Tiaria’s goal once completed is to secure a role that involves, iwi development, Māori economic strategy, management and leadership, business innovation, kaupapa Māori-based planning and decision-making. Tiaria’s long-term career aspiration is to work in the Māori business sector to support iwi economic growth and Māori aspirations. Tiaria is passionate about Māori-led development and is excited to help our people build strong, sustainable, values-based enterprises that support intergenerational prosperity.

 OS5 Kaumatua Grant Form 2026

The 2026 Kaumātua Grant Form for Owhatiura South 5 Incorporation is now available for download.

For the financial year 26/27 the closing date for Kaumātua grant applications is Wednesday 17th of June 2026 at 4pm. Late applications will not be considered.

Please send all applications including supporting documents to:

Owhatiura South 5 Incorporation

C/ – GHA

Level 1, GHA Centre, 1108 Fenton St

PO Box 1712,

ROTORUA

Ngāti Hē Hapū Trust – Nomination Form

The Nomination Form is available for download below. Forms must be submitted to GHA by the closing date and time.

Level 1 GHA Centre

1108 Fenton Street

P.O. Box 1712 ROTORUA

Phone 07 348 3599

returningofficer@gha.co.nz

The Nomination Form is to be completed and signed by the Nominee and countersigned by two other Adult Beneficiaries of the Ngāti Hē Hapū Trust. Nominations will close at 5:00pm on Thursday 30 January 2025.

Candidates are required to provide a brief curriculum vitae detailing their relevant experience to the role of trustee of the Hapū Trust.

Please note that GHA is closed for the Christmas and New Year period, from 12:00pm on Friday 20 December 2024, to 8:00am on Monday 13 January 2025. Acknowledgement of nominations received during this time will be made on Monday 13 January 2025.

Ngāti Hē – Nomination Form

GHA Scholarship 2025

We are currently accepting applications for the GHA Scholarship.  Consistent with our kaupapa-Maori focus, this scholarship aims to support greater Māori representation within the business community by proactively fostering and encouraging Māori into the accounting profession or wider business environment.  We are seeking applications from Māori students who are keen to enter the accounting profession and are committed to the Chartered Accountants Australia New Zealand (CAANZ) pathway. In addition to this, we have extended our criteria to allow for applications from Māori students who are studying business with the intention of becoming Māori business professionals.

Value

We have a total scholarship pool of $15,000 to be awarded to the right applicant(s).

Payment

Scholarship recipients will receive payment in two instalments – the first being in line with semester one of the tertiary year and the second in line with semester two of the tertiary year.

Closing date

• 5pm | Friday 6th December 2024

Who can apply?

We welcome applications from exceptional full-time Māori students who have demonstrated academic excellence, have an enthusiasm and commitment to work with Māori and are passionate about using their talent to benefit whanau, hapū and iwi.

Preference will be given to descendants of clients of GHA.  If you require assistance with identification in this regard please contact us directly through the key contact listed below.

Selection process

Applications received by 5pm 6 December 2024 will be reviewed and considered by a GHA selection panel.  The total number of scholarships and final value to be given will be determined by the panel and applicants will be advised in December 2024 of the final selection outcomes.

Conditions attached to acceptance of this award

As a successful recipient of this scholarship, you will be required to be profiled on our website.  Students will need to confirm enrolment prior to payments being made.

• For further scholarship information Scholarship Information 2025
• To download an application form Scholarship Application Form 2025

Contact

• Please contact our office info@gha.co.nz or 07 348 3599 for further details.

To all our valued clients, please note that our office will be closed for Christmas and New Year from:

1pm Friday 20th December 2024 and will reopen at 8:30am Monday 13 January 2025.

Ngā mihi o te wā ki a koutou!

The Pukeroa Oruawhata Trust AGM agenda and election candidate profiles are now available for viewing and download via the links below.

POT 2024 AGM Agenda

POT Election 2024 Candidate Profiles

Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting will be held at Tamatekapua Meeting House, Ohinemutu, Rotorua on Saturday 2^nd  November 2024 at 10.00am.

 ELECTION OF TWO TRUSTEES

In accordance with the Trust Order, one Trustee, Monty Morrison, retires by rotation and is not seeking re-election.

Malcolm Short has resigned from the Trust effective 2^nd November 2024 and a replacement trustee is sought for his remaining term of 3 years.

If there are more than 2 candidates nominated an election will be held by postal ballot, by poll vote. The highest polling candidate will be elected for the 5 year term replacing Monty Morrison with the second highest polling candidate elected to replace Malcolm Short’s remaining 3 year term.  

Persons interested in being nominated for these positions are invited to submit their nomination form to the Returning Officer. The minimum qualifications for nominees for election as per the Trust Deed are:  

(a) Seven years experience in Maori Land Governance, administration, law, commerce or management, or

(b) An NZQA approved tertiary qualification in Maori Land administration, business administration, or management.

Please submit with your nomination evidence of the minimum qualification.

Nominations can only be made on the official nomination form which is available from the Returning Officer – Glenn Hawkins, GHA, Level 1, 1108 Fenton St, Rotorua, www.gha.co.nz or by emailing returningofficer@gha.co.nz

The relevant dates are:

• Nominations Open on Monday 26^th August 2024
• Nominations Close on Monday 9^th September 2024, 4 pm. 
• Voting Papers will be mailed to registered Owners Monday 16^th September 2024 (if an election is to be held)
• Voting Papers must be returned by 4pm on Friday 25^th October 2024 to the Returning Officer.

– I am a seed born of Greatness”.

The annual GHA scholarships are awarded to exceptional recipients who demonstrate a commitment to advancing the interests of iwi and Māori in their chosen careers. Financial support through the scholarship is provided to advance their tertiary studies.

Five successful applicants have been awarded scholarships to the value of $3,000 each for study in 2024.

The five recipients are:

1. Arahia Koia
2. Caleb Te Whare
3. Megan Latu
4. Miles Tapsell and
5. Taawera Hana Samuels – Kaio

A brief bio supplied by each of the recipients is provided below:

Arahia Koia

In 2023 Arahia capped off her secondary schooling as Te Kura o Te Koutu’s Head Girl by achieving her NCEA Level 3 (achieved with excellence). Fluent in Te Reo Māori, she was also a 2023 recipient of the Rotorua Young Achiever’s award. Many whanau are struggling to make ends meet. Some are living in their cars. Arahia is determined to see these whanau released from the grip of economic hardship. She believes the key to achieving this is to build a thriving Māori economy which is why she has decided to pursue batchelors degrees in commerce and law through the Auckland University’s five-year BCom / LLB conjoint programme. Arahia’s intentions post-graduation is to pursue a career as a business consultant specialising in commercial law. She aims to apply her tertiary training and leadership ability to influence transformational change to accelerate Māori corporate success for the betterment of all New Zealanders.

Caleb Te Whare

I te taha o tōku papa
Ko Whakapoungakau te pae maunga, ko Pukepoto te tihi, ko Waingaehe te awa, ko Te Arawa te waka
Ko Ngati Te Roro-o-te-Rangi-te hapu, ko Uenukukopako te tangata, ko Tutanekai rāua ko Hinemoa te Tupuna whare
Ko Owhata te marae

I te taha o tōku mama
Ko Aoraki te maunga, ko Kati Huirapa te hapu, ko Puketeraki te Marae
Ko Caleb Te Whare tōku ingoa

I’m in my second year of my Bachelor of Accounting Degree through Toi Ohomai. My goal is to graduate and become a chartered accountant, hopefully going on to work for a Māori organization. I want to use my skills and knowledge to ultimately benefit my family, hapu, and iwi.

Megan Latu

My name is Mega Latu and I am in my second year of studies at the University of Otago, studying an Bachelor of Commerce, Majoring in Accounting. I am a proud Māori and of Pacific descent, from Ngapuhi and Tainui, Ngāti Maniapoto. My journey in the field of business has been inspired by a deep-rooted commitment to the kaupapa-Māori values and a vision to enhance Māori representation in the accounting profession. I have enjoyed studying accounting and seek to further my careet as a Chartered Accountant, following the completion of studies. It is a privilege to represent my culture in my professional and academic journey, and hope to influence prospective business Māori students to pursue accounting.

Miles Tapsell

Ko Te Arawa te waka

Ko Ngati Whakaue me Ngati Pikiao nga iwi

Ko Te Papaiouru te marae

Ko Tamatekapua te tangata

Ko Miles Te Pokiha Pekamu Te Tupara Tapsell ahau

As Co-President of Te Mana Pakihi (The Māori Commerce Students’ Association) and Māori Lead of the Investment Club at the University of Auckland, this year is about my commitment to increasing Māori engagement in the corporate sectors. In terms of my own career goals, I am aiming for a career in Investment Banking – a sector which is predominantly non-Māori but has had some Māori pioneers pave a way for aspiring rangatahi. Support systems such as this scholarship ensure that Māori tauira such as myself are equipped with the necessary resources to excel in increasingly competitive environments – a huge thank you to Glenn and the team at GHA for their support.

Taawera Hana – Samuels Kaio

I am currently in my second year studying for a Bachelor’s in Business, at Auckland University of Technology. I am majoring in International Business with a minor in Māori Indigenous Business and Information Systems. Thanks to GHA, I am honoured to be one of five recipients for the 2024 Business Scholarship.

I have thoroughly enjoyed delving back into the world of education with the support of first-hand experience I had garnered over the years. Upon graduation I hope to embark on my journey as a business professional within the Māori Health and Fisheries sector. From this I intend on progressing to become a business consultant, specifically working alongside and for other Māori owned businesses. My passion is with people, and I have made a commitment to making a meaningful contribution towards the prosperity and well-being of our Māori people.

The annual GHA scholarships were awarded to four exceptional recipients who will benefit from the financial support provided. Our Māori talent will be nurtured and encouraged to contribute to kaupapa Māori organisations and their iwi.

A total of four applications were received and applicants granted the annual GHA scholarship for study in 2023.

The Partners presented scholarships to the value of $3,750 each to Jade Foote, Manaia Rapana-Feather, Matiu Rei and Melissa Gebert.

Jade Foote

Ngāti Whakaue

Jade is now studying in her second year at the University of Otago. She aims to complete her Law and Commerce degrees in 2026. Jade is a proud descendant of Te Arawa, Ngati Whakaue and aspires to use her degrees to work along side Māori business’ in New Zealand. Jade looks forward to her continued business studies at the University of Otago to attain her skills and qualifications and use them to support her iwi and hapu in the future.

Manaia Rapana-Feather

Te Arawa Whānui, Waikato-Tainui

Manaia is completing her second year of studies at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha, University of Canterbury. Manaia enjoys cooperating alongside people and is a true team player. She is studying a Bachelor of Commerce, majoring in Human Resource Management.

Manaia wishes to encourage rangatahi to get involved within the business sector so together they can enhance the representation of Māori. Once Manaia has graduated she hopes to use the skills she has obtained to give back to her people in the foreseen future.

Matiu Rei

Te Arawa, Tokomaru, Taranaki Maunga

He tuhanga tonu tēnei o Te Arawa waka me ōna karangatanga hapū a Ngāti Pūkākī o Ngāti Whakaue, a Ngāti Wāhiao o Tūhourangi me Ngāti Hinemihi o Ngāti Tarawhai. He uri hoki o Te Pahipoto o Ngāti Awa me Ngāti Kimihia o Ngāti Toa Rangatira. Ka mutu, he kohatu hoki i taka mai i te Maunga Titohea me ōna iwi, hapū a Kaitangata o Ngāti Mutunga, a Ngāti Tama, a Ngāti Kopu o Ngāti Maruwharanui, a Ngāti Rahiri o Te Atiawa, a Ngāti Haupoto o Taranaki Iwi me Ngāti Tū o Ngāruahine.

I am progressing into my second year at the University of Auckland – Waipapa Taumata Rau studying/majoring in economics and computer science. I am interested in programming and want to bring the skills I will learn to help my iwi, hapū and whānau. I also think that an understanding of production, distribution and consumption of products and services and the transfer of wealth – economics will be valuable to iwi and hapū as they navigate people, business, markets and governments.

Melissa Gebert

Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Tūhoe

My whanau and I live in sunny Opotiki, surrounded by beautiful landscapes and lovely people.  For the last 17 years I co-owned an Agricultural Contracting business in conjunction with our Share/Contract milking Jobs.  ‘Hands on’ experience revealed an interest in both accounting and finance, creating a desire to learn more.

Recently I made a personally significant decision to embark on educating myself.  In 2022 I completed a Diploma in Business, accounting strand, through Toi Ohomai Whakatane.  The learnings have solidified my current knowledge while introducing me to new ideas and concepts.  I have now enrolled in the Bachelor of Business, through Waikato University in Tauranga, majoring in Accounting and Finance, I look forward to commencing on 27 February 2023.

It is my intention to become a Chartered Accountant, with the hope of making a meaningful difference in people’s life’s; I understand the obstacles in business coming from a family with no prior business knowledge. I also understand the real-life pressures of small business ownership.  It would be a privilege to help and guide our people, especially our rangatahi, who keenly enter the business world, with so much enthusiasm and energy, as I once did.

I am truly grateful to have been chosen as a scholarship recipient.  “The essence of life is growth” and I sincerely thank you for the aid in my journey of growth.

GHA Scholarship

We are currently accepting applications for the GHA Scholarship.  Consistent with our kaupapa-Maori focus, this scholarship aims to support greater Māori representation within the business community by proactively fostering and encouraging Māori into the accounting profession or wider business environment.  We are seeking applications from Māori students who are keen to enter the accounting profession and are committed to the Chartered Accountants Australia New Zealand (CAANZ) pathway. In addition to this, we have extended our criteria to allow for applications from Māori students who are studying business with the intention of becoming Māori business professionals.

Value

We have a total scholarship pool of $15,000 to be awarded to the right applicant(s).

Payment

Scholarship recipients will receive payment in two instalments – the first being in line with semester one of the tertiary year and the second in line with semester two of the tertiary year.

Closing date

• 5pm | 28 November 2022

Who can apply?

We welcome applications from exceptional full-time Māori students who have demonstrated academic excellence, have an enthusiasm and commitment to work with Māori and are passionate about using their talent to benefit whanau, hapū and iwi.

Preference will be given to descendants of clients of GHA.  If you require assistance with identification in this regard please contact us directly through the key contact listed below.

Selection process

Applications received by 5pm 28 November 2022 will be reviewed and considered by a GHA selection panel.  The total number of scholarships and final value to be given will be determined by the panel and applicants will be advised in December 2022 of the final selection outcomes.

Conditions attached to acceptance of this award

As a successful recipient of this scholarship, you will be required to be profiled on our website.  Students will need to confirm enrolment prior to payments being made.

• For further scholarship information Scholarship Information 2022
• To download an application form Scholarship Application Form 2022

Contact

• Please contact our office accountant@gha.co.nz or 07 348 3599 for further details.