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Nga mihi o te tau kia koutou. Thank you for your welcome, and for the opportunity to share in this 10 th Anniversary Conference of the University of the Third Age. The anniversary is one to celebrate in any event, but it is particularly appropriate that…

Tihei mauri ora! Uuia kia Ranginui e tuu iho nei ...     ia Papa-tua-nuku e takoto ake nei ...         tohia nga hua o te tau ... hue ha! E weehi ano to te Rangi ... e weehi ano to te whenua ...     e weehi ano to te takiwa ... ko te weehi kia Ihowa o nga…

Introduction Dr Peter Hennessy, the well known constitutional historian, once gave a speech in which he described how, over half a lifetime, he had searched for official documents articulating the principles on which the British Constitution is based. He…

Introduction Dr Peter Hennessy, the well known constitutional historian, once gave a speech in which he described how, over half a lifetime, he had searched for official documents articulating the principles on which the British Constitution is based. He…

E mihi ana ki te Rangi E mihi ana ki te whenua E mihi ana ki a tatou katoa tena koutou. E nga mana E nga reo Rau rangatira ma tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa. Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, Librarians and Library staff, Friends of the Hocken,…

Suzanne Hannagan, President, Lyn Farry, Vice President - thank you for the invitation to share this evening with you, and so to meet Zonta in Dunedin as well as in Wellington. And my congratulations to you of the Metropolitan Dunedin Club on your first…

Nga hau e wha, nga iwi e tau nei, tena koutou. E nga mana, e nga reo, rau rangatira ma, tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa. Mr Borthwick, Ms Powley (President and Vice President of the NZAPEP), distinguished guests and visitors to New Zealand,…

This is the second Auckland Mayoral Prayer Breakfast I have had the pleasure of attending, and the fifth I think around the country. Your approach is a little different from that in Wellington and Lower Hutt, where I have also been, because here you focus…

Mr Chairman (Sir Roy McKenzie), our distinguished visitors from overseas, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for your welcome and for the opportunity to share in the opening of your conference. For the opportunity, too, to increase my knowledge about the…

Ms D'Ath, ladies and gentlemen, tena koutou. Thank you for your welcome and your invitation to be here with you today. I happily accepted the request that I officially launch this publication, "Literacy in the Workplace," and in doing so, that I say…

Your Honour, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen. Society has nothing more precious than its youth. We brought them into the world. To a large extent we made them what they are. To them, we entrust our hopes and our aspirations. To them, we look…

E nga mana - e nga reo - rau rangatira ma - tena koutou. Nga hau e wha - nga iwi e tau nei - tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa. In New Zealand's second official language, I too extend a welcome, saying: To all our distinguished guests, to all…

Anneke Boren, President of the New Zealand Society, and Vera Burton, President of the Wellington Association, our three international visitors, Mrs Kazuyo Hiruma from Japan, Les Manning from Canada and Sandra Taylor from Australia, and all potters here…

Uuia kia Rangi-nui e tuu iho nei - ia Papa-tua-nuku e takoto ake nei - tohia nga hua o te tau- hue ha! E wehi ano to te rangi - e wehi ano to te whenua - e wehi ano to te takiwa Tihei mauri ora! Te Arawa tapu - Te Arawa mana - Te Arawa waka - Te Arawa iwi…

E nga mana, e nga reo, rau rangatira ma: tena koutou. Nga hau e wha, nga iwi e tau nei: tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa.   Mr Chairman, our visitors from overseas, my fellow New Zealanders. We have been welcomed in the traditional manner of…

First, may I say thank you to Harvey and Sarah for their inspiring address. They have not just talked about The Father Factor. They have given us a telling demonstration of it: of the kind of relationship there can and should be between father and…

Uuia kia Ranginui e tuu iho nei - ia Papatuanuku e takoto ake nei - tohia nga hua o te tau - hue haa! E weehi ano to te rangi - e weehi ano to te whenua - e weehi ano to te takiwa - tihei mouri ora! Tuu mai e te maunga tapu Tararua - tuu mai! Tuu mai! E…

Nga hau e wha, nga iwi e tau nei, tena koutou. E nga mana, e nga reo, rau rangatira ma, tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa. We were told on the news the other day that we have a quite rapidly increasing population. Yet over the next 20 to 30…

It is a pleasure to be here, and to see that the Association in Auckland is in such good heart. Some here I have seen quite frequently over the years, because we've had some reunions. Others I haven't seen for many years, but some of you are still…

Thank you, Dr Isdale, Mr President, Mr Orthodontic President, Mr Australian President, other distinguished visitors, members of the Association, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for your welcome and for the invitation to open this, your 19 th Biennial…

Mayor Blumsky, Mr Foster, Councillors, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for your welcome, and for the invitation to share in the opening of this important conference. It is important because it is your 50 th , and that's a milestone…

When I was a boy, I spent many school holidays with my grandmother in Palmerston North. She liked to be driven into the Square and sit in the car watching the people go by. "Oh my", she would say, "look at all the people. What changes in our lives." She…

Thank you for your welcome, and for the invitation to take part in this Symposium. It was an invitation I accepted readily, although when it came time to think about what I might actually contribute, I began to realise that perhaps I had been rather…

Ladies and gentlemen. "I have had a most rare vision". Thus spake Bottom, in the Midsummer Night's Dream, waking from Puck's spell. But I suppose that to compare the old Winter Show Building with Titania is a bit far-fetched - even a bit asinine. But what…

Where to now? I once read of a small boy who saw his first skylark. "Look at that bird, Mum" he said. "It can't go up and it can't go down, and it's bawling its head off." I sometimes wonder whether that illustrates our attitude to our environment; indeed…

Nga mate, haere, haere, haere. The Honourable Philip Ruddock, my fellow New Zealanders, friends from Turkey and Australia and all around the world, you in your thousands who have come to stand here with us, side by side, in solemn remembrance. Nga hau e…

Nga mate, haere, haere, haere - Those who died here, may you rest in peace. The Hon Philip Ruddock, Your Excellency Mr Ekrem Ozsoy, Governor of Canakkale, friends from around the world. We stand here today on hallowed ground. It is hallowed ground because…

Mr McGibbon, (President) , Conference Delegates, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for your invitation to open your Conference this morning - it is a pleasure to join with representatives of musical societies, large and small, which have over so many years…

I made a promise to Laurie O'Reilly that I would open this Forum, and so I am here. I am sorry that I could not manage it at the very beginning. But quite often I open buildings, for example, that have been in use for some time, so that it's quite…

Mr Chairman, Your Worship, ladies and gentlemen. Early last year the Listener published an article by Carl Sagan, the author and astrophysicist, which he began by saying that the 20 th century will be remembered for three broad areas of innovation; our…

'A Resurrection of Leadership' It is easy to think of leadership as something exercised by a few people with particular ability. That, however, is false: we all have the capacity for leadership and we all act as leaders on occasion. Just by being…

Tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa. For some years now, it's been obvious, hasn't it, that the level of violence in New Zealand society has been going up: violent action is part of our everyday entertainment, and violent crime is much more common…