Urupare a te Kaihoko Pōrana: Ka Whiwhi Whakawhirinaki te Hongyang Ring Die me te Pūmautanga me te Pakaritanga

I te hauwhā tuawhā o te tau 2023, i roto i tētahi rōpū tukatuka whāngai i waenganui o Pōrana, i whakahaerehia e Mr. K tētahi mira whāngai rahi-waenga i roa e whakawhirinaki ana ki tētahi kaihanga mate mowhiti rongonui o te rohe. I te wā i kati ohorere ai taua kaiwhakarato Pākehā, i tūpono tana raina whakaputa ki te ngaronga o tētahi wāhanga nui. I akiakihia a Mr. K ki te rapu i tētahi atu huarahi puta noa i te ao. I te wā i whakapā atu ai a Hongyang Feed Machinery ki a ia mō te wā tuatahi, i whakaae ia kāore anō ia kia hoko i tētahi mate mowhiti i hangaia e Haina, ā, he nui ōna feaa mō te ōritetanga o ngā rauemi, ngā tukanga maimoatanga wera, me te roa o te ratonga. Whai muri i te whakarato a ā mātou miihini hokohoko i ngā whakataurite hangarau maha, ngā pūrongo whakamātautau rauemi tuatoru, me ngā tohutoro mai i ētahi atu kaiwhakamahi Pākehā, ka whakatau a Mr. K ki te tuku i tētahi ota whakamātautau iti – e rua ngā mate mowhiti hei whakamana i te ao tūturu.

I muri i te taenga mai o ngā mati mowhiti ki te wheketere Pōrana, i oti i te tīma a Mr. K te tāutanga me te whakatinanatanga i roto i ngā haora 24. I mahi tika ngā mati ki te raina mira pellet o nāianei, kāore he whakarerekētanga. Tata ki te 70 ngā rā i muri i te mahi, i hono atu te kiritaki ki tā mātou tīma hangarau mā te hui ataata. I runga i te mata, i whakatakotoria e Mr. K te mata mahi tawhito o te mati mowhiti kua wetekina ki raro i tētahi taputapu ine – he iti rawa te pakaru o te pakitara o roto i te paepae whakakapinga ahumahi Pākehā mō taua wā anō, i noho maeneene tonu te mata putanga, ā, kāore he pakaru ngenge e kitea ana. Ko tāna aromatawai poto:"He rauemi totoka, he nui ake te mana whakahaere i te kakahu i ngā tumanakohanga, ā, ko te roa o te ora e homai ana ki a mātou te maia."I tino whakamārama ia ko te waitohu Hongyang te mea nui mō ngā ota a meake nei, ā, i pai ia ki te whakapuaki i ōna wheako tūturu ki ōna hoa mahi i roto i te Rōpū Ahumahi Whāngai o Pōrana.

Ahakoa te āhua o te whakawhiti kaiwhakarato a Mr. K he whakakapinga mekameka tuku taonga tūpono noa iho, he whakaata tēnei i te panonitanga nui o te ao mīhini whāngai. Mō te wā roa, kua whakawhirinaki ngā mira whāngai iti me te rahi o Ūropi ki ngā pūnaha hanga tika o te rohe me te taha tata. Heoi, ka whakamatautauria te manawanui o te mekameka tuku taonga ki ngā wāhi pakaru o te rohe. I whiwhi a Hongyang ring dies i te hiahia hoko anō mai i tētahi kiritaki Pōrana, ehara i te mea nā te utu anake, engari nā te aro atu ki ngā āwangawanga matua o ngā kaiwhakamahi ngaio i runga i ngā taumata ngaro e toru:

Ka kitea te uara o te mati mowhiti whāngai i roto i ngā mano, i ngā tekau mano rānei o ngā hāora mahi; ko ia whakawhiti mati he tikanga ka ngaro te putanga puta noa i te raina katoa. I roto i te tīma mati mowhiti Hongyang, he ture kāore i tuhia:kaua rawa e oati i tētahi tawhā kāore e taea te manatoko, ā, kaua rawa e whakamahi i ngā paerewa tukanga rerekē i runga i te takenga mai o te ota.Ahakoa mō te tauira ngako-nui a te mira whāngai kai Pākehā, mō te whakaritenga ārai-waikura rānei i roto i te whare putunga haumākū o Āhia ki te Tonga-mā-rāwhiti, ka tirohia ia tunu kai ki tētahi pūnaha memo hangarau ōrite – te momo rauemi mata, ngā āhuatanga rauemi, te hoahoa poka, te tohatoha poka – i mua i te tīmatanga o te mahi hanga. Ko tēnei tikanga o te "pōturi i mua, tere i te tuku" koinei pea te tikanga hangarau i muri i te kupu a Mr. K "totoka."

Ina huri mārire te matihao mowhiti, he taputapu rino noa iho te mira pirepire. Ina pumau, ā, he pakari te matihao mowhiti, ka waiho hei taurangi pai mō te tauākī hua o te mira whāngai. Kāore ngā matihao mowhiti Hongyang e hiahia ana ki te puranga i ngā kupu āhua pēnei i te "tino pai" me te "tino pai" i roto i ā mātou pānuitanga. Engari, e pai ana mātou ki te tuku i te taumaha kua whakaemihia kia tukatukahia tonutia i te mania o Ūropi ki te Rawhiti, te iti o ngā taonga wāhanga tāpui i roto i te whare putunga o te kiritaki o Amerika ki te Tonga, me te poto o te wā kore mahi i roto i te pukapuka takiuru a te kaiwhakamahi o Āhia ki te Tonga-mā-rāwhiti e kōrero ana i te kōrero kotahi: Ka haere tawhiti te hua pai i a ia anō, ā, ka hiahia te hunga e whakamahi ana ki te kōrero.

Ki te mea kei te arotake koe ko tēhea kaiwhakarato hei huri atu māu mō tō puranga mowhiti e whai ake nei, whakarongo ki ngā kōrero a ngā kaiwhakamahi kua wetewete, kua tāuta, ā, kua pupuri tonu i te tuhi i ngā raraunga kakahu. Tērā pea ko tā rātou "He tino pai" te mea e hiahiatia ana e tō raina whakaputa.