MEDIA STATEMENT
Friday, 31 July 2020
 
Appointment of a New Chairman
 
A Ngātiwai Trust Board hui was held on the 31 July 2020 at which the Trustees elected Aperahama Edwards (Trustee for Matapouri Marae) as the new Chairman of the Ngātiwai Trust Board.
 
Aperahama has been a Trustee of the Board for the last four years and is the current Chairman of the Ngātiwai Treaty Claims Committee.  Aperahama is well known to the Iwi and has represented Ngātiwai on several boards, organisations and forums both at a local and national level over many years.
 
New Ngātiwai Trust Board Chairman, Aperahama Edwards says, “I am humbled to be elected as the person to lead our iwi Trust Board.  I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge Haydn Edmonds for his dedication, passion, and commitment to serving our iwi as Chairman for the past ten years.  Ngā mihi ki a koe e Rangatira to mahi mo to tatou iwi.  Ngā mihi hoki ki to whānau kua noho hei pou tuara mou I roto I ngā tau”
 
Outgoing Chairman, Haydn Edmonds says, “It has been a privilege and an honour for me to represent my iwi over many years and I would like to wish Aperahama all the best as our new Chair.  I know Abe is the right person to lead our iwi and he will have my full support.  I look forward to continuing to work positively with him and my fellow Board members as the Trustee for my marae, Punaruku.”

Acting General Manager, Jim Smillie says, “We welcome the appointment of Aperahama as our new Chair.  I know he will be well supported by the Board, staff and the wider Iwi.”
 
Trustee for Motairehe Marae, Martin Cleave, was elected as Deputy Chairman.
 
Ends
 
 
Contacts:      Barry Caldwell, Communications Advisor, Ngātiwai Trust Board
                        Phone:  021 728 291
                        Email: barry.caldwell@ngatiwai.iwi.nz

​The Ngātiwai Trust Board are delighted to announce the appointment of Alyx Pivac (Te Popoto, Ngāti Whātua, Te Uri O Hikihiki, Ngātiwai) as the new Manager of the Ngātiwai Trust Board Resource Management Unit.
 
Chairman Haydn Edmonds says “Our panel has taken a number of months to ensure we get this important appointment right and we have interviewed some outstanding candidates during this process.   We have selected who we believe is the best person to be the new kaitiaki of the Ngātiwai Resource Management Unit”.
 
“I would like to welcome Alyx, who is young, vibrant, very qualified and with a strong history of working in the Environmental space.  She grew up in Whangārei and knows the area and the landscape very well.  She is fiercely passionate about what she says is her inherent obligation as kaitiaki."

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​Alyx has been based in Auckland, but has now moved home to Whangārei as she begins her new role at the Ngātiwai Trust Board.
 
Newly appointed Ngātiwai Trust Board Resource Manager, Alyx Pivac says “I’m thrilled to be able to return to Te Tai Tokerau to contribute my skillset and expertise in this space.  I’m grateful for this opportunity and looking forward to joining the Ngātiwai Trust Board whanau.”
 
Alyx begins as the Board’s Resource Unit Manager today, and the Board were pleased to hold a mihi whakatau with her whānau and the Ngātiwai kāhui kaumātua to officially welcome her on board.
 
Nau mai haere mai Alyx!