Glossary

Aircraft: means any machine that can derive support in the atmosphere from the reactions of the air otherwise than by the reactions of the air against the surface of the earth (Civil Aviation Act 1990)

Amo: lower posts supporting maihi

Animal: means any mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish (including shellfish) or related organism, insect, crustacean, or organism of every kind; but does not include a human being (National Parks Act S. 2)

Characean: aquatic plant of the family Characeae

Companion dog: means a dog certified by the Top Dog Companion Trust as being a companion dog or a dog under training as a companion dog (National Parks Act 1980, S. 2)

Conservation Management Strategy: Where stated this refers to the East Coast Conservation Management Strategy 1998 - 2008

Consultation involves the following:

• a genuine effort must be made to consult; it is not a mere formality;
• sufficient time for consulting; it is more than prior notice of a decision;
• the party being consulted must be given relevant and sufficient information;
• proper consideration of responses from the party consulted, i.e. an open mind, take notice of what is said and be prepared to change and even start afresh;
• not obliged to consider irrelevant responses;
• not obliged to agree with responses.

Consulting: involves the statement of a proposal not yet finally decided upon, listening to what others have to say, considering their responses and then deciding what will be done."

To consult with someone therefore is not merely to tell them or present them with information or facts. Consultation is not negotiation which has as its object, arriving at agreement (although the tendency in consulting is to seek to arrive at consensus). Nor is it partnership, persuading or providing a veto to any group.

(Wellington International Airport Ltd v Air NZ and others CA 23/92).

Department: Department of Conservation

Domestic dogs: will be considered to include registered animals that are currently domesticated under the responsibility of an owner and kept in a controlled manner for the purposes of pleasure (including but not limited to companionship and hunting) or are necessary or some other reason such as a guide dog or companion dog.

Game: means all animals [and game birds] for the time being specified in the First Schedule of the Wildlife Act (Wildlife Act 1953)

General Policy: where stated this refers to General Policy for National Parks, published for National Parks and Reserves Authority, New Zealand by Department of Lands and Survey (1983)

Guide Dog: means a dog certified by the Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind as being a guide dog or a dog under training as a guide dog (National Parks Act S. 2)

Invasive weed: a weed that can significantly and adversely affect indigenous species and communities including: genetic variation within species (within and between populations); the survival of threatened species or the quality or sustainability or natural communities. The mere presence of exotic species in a natural area is not enough to constitute an invasive weed problem. Whether a species is an invasive weed depends on the nature and significance of its existing or potential impacts (extract from Glossary of Owen, S.J. (1998))

Kai: food

Koruru: carved head piece of ancestor below tekoteko

Lakeshore anchoring: will be considered to be the temporary anchoring of any boat on Lake Waikaremoana (other than at permanent recreational or commercial mooring sites provided in Home Bay)

Lakeshore camping: will be considered to be any camping within 500 metres of the shores of Lake Waikaremoana or Lake Waikareiti, in a site which is not a designated camp site provided by the Department of Conservation

Macrophyte: larger multi-celled aquatic plants (eg >10cm) with differentiation of tissue to form distinct stems and leaves/pinnules. Includes mosses, liverworts and true vascular aquatic plants such as oxygen weed.

Marae: meeting area of whanau or iwi, focal point of settlement

Maihi: barge boards situated at front of meeting house

Mining: means to take, win, or extract, by whatever means, a mineral existing in its natural state in land, or a chemical substance from that mineral, for the purpose of obtaining the mineral or chemical substance; but does not include prospecting or exploration; and "to mine" has a corresponding meaning (Crown Minerals Act S. 2)

Oligotrophic: lake of low nutrient status, low algae productivity and with adequate oxygen levels at all times

Poupou: ancestral carvings along walls of meeting house

Personal Water Craft: power driven ship that has a fully enclosed hull; and does not take on water if capsized; and is designed to be operated by a person standing, sitting astride or kneeling on it, but not seated within it (Local Government Act 1974 Navigational Bylaws section).

Rohe: margin, territory

Rongoa: medicine, drug (medicinal) , antidote

Route: Generally unformed and lightly cut route catering for the most experienced back-country visitor

'Sports fish': means every species of freshwater fish that the Governor-General may declare, by Order in Council, to be sports fish for the purposes of this Act; and any such Order in Council may be expressed to apply to freshwater fish in any specified freshwater or other waters

(Conservation Act 1987 Section 2)

Tangata whenua: in relation to a particular area, means the iwi, or hapu, that holds mana whenua (customary authority exercised by an iwi or hapu in an identified area) over that area (Resource Management Act 1991)

people of a given place (Waitangi Tribunal Report Wai 27)

Taonga: treasure

Tekoteko: ancestral figurehead at apex of maihi

The Department: refers to the Department of Conservation (unless specified otherwise)

The park: refers to Te Urewera National Park (unless specified otherwise)

Tukutuku: ornamental panels

Waahi Tapu: cemetery, reserved ground

Waka: canoe

Whakairo: carving, engraving

Whakapapa: genealogical lineage

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