Hiwi Tauroa – Te Whakaruruhau
Ko Hiwi Tauroa te tumuaki tuatahi o te Kāreti o Tuakau, ono ngā tau i noho ia ki tērā tūranga. I te tau 1982 i mahue e ia i tērā tūranga ki te tūranga o te Kaiwhakawhanaunga-ā-iwi. I noho rangatira ia ki tērā tūranga tae atu ki te tau 1986.I te wa ko ia Kaiwhakawhaunga-ā-iwi, he mema ia o te Pōari mo Ngā Iwi Taketake o Te Ao, i whai wāhi i a ia i ngā hui o Te Kotahitanga o Ngā Iwi o Te Ao me ngā hui Mana Tangata. Anō hoki, he kaituhi ia i ngā pukapuka Tiriti o Waitangi me te ahurea Māori.
Nā, roto i tēnā tūranga anō, te wa tuatahi i whai wāhi a Hiwi i tētahi haerenga i roto i te rōpū New Zealand China Friendship Society i te tau 1981. Ko tēnā hoki te wa i tūtaki a ia i te CPAFFC. Nāna i tīmatangia i ngā whakawhitinga tautoki mai i te tau 1984, tae noa ki ēnei rā. I te tau 2000 i whakamanatia te CPAFFC i a ia te taitara o te Friendship Ambassador. I te tau 1990 i hoki a Hiwi,rāua ko Pat, ki te tāone iti o Kaeo, kei reira ia te Heamana o Te Rūnanga o Whangaroa. I mahue i a ia i tēnā tūranga i te tau 2000.
Maha ngā tūranga ta Hiwi i mau i ngā rā o mua. He kaikaunihera o mua i runga i te NZ Council for Education, he mema o mua i te Massey University Council, he Heamana o mua i Poari o Te Māngai Pāho, he mema o mua i te Northland Polytechnic Council, ka mutu, he mema o mua ia i te Auckland Regional Council.
Pai te mahi hākinakina ki a ia, tēnā, he mema o mua ia i te New Zealand Sports Foundation. Heoi, ko te mahi hākinakina tino pai ki a ia, ko te whutuapaoro. He repe o mua ia i te rohe o Taranaki, ā, i ngā tau 1951, 1952 me te 1954 i tae ia ki te tema whutupaoro Māori o Aotearoa. I te tau 1977 ko ia te kaiako o te tema whautupaoro o te rohe o Counties Manukau, i toa rātou i te taitara i roto i te whakataetae Naitonal Provincial Rugby i te tau 1979. I tona haerenga ki Haina i te tau 1981 i kitea a Hiwi i ngā tairitenga o ngā ahurea Haina me ngā ahurea o ōna iwi Māori.
Tēnā, i korerotia a Hiwi ki a Rewi Alley kia whai huarahi, kia whakawhanake he hononga, kia whakawhanake he whakawhitinga i waenganui i a Haina me ngā iwi Māori. Mai i ērā korero, i te tau 1984, i tīmatahia a Hiwi he whakawhitinga tautoki.
Kia whakawhiwhihia i a ia te tohu Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG) i te tau 1993 mo ōna mahi ratonga mahi i roto i Aotearoa.
Rewi Alley, a New Zealander, came to China in 1927. Sharing wealth and woe with the Chinese people, he devoted 60 years of his life to Chinese people’s cause of liberation and construction. In the 1930s, he joined an international Marxist-Leninist group in Shanghai and wrote many articles publicizing the Chinese people’s resistance against Japanese aggressors. During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he took an active part in and was one of the sponsors of the Chinese Industrial Cooperative Movement that became a unique economic force that emerged by organizing the unemployed workers and refugees into production and survival and in support of the Resistance War. After the founding of New China, he dedicated his efforts to safeguard world peace and the cause of friendship among the peoples of the world, making important contributions to developing friendship between the Chinese people and the people of New Zealand and other countries.