Every year Waitangi Day Celebrations have been held out at the Kingston
factory. This year we were to have a stall selling 500 hangi.
Our meetings were held to determine what members were doing
what jobs and ideas were put forth for extra things that we
might sell on the side.

Saturday afternoon the workers of the Te Tirohanga-A-Iwi met
at the Vietnam Vets Club to prepare the food.
The menfolk begun their long mahi sometime around midnight 
when the fire was lit and nursed until the wee hours and the food 
baskets were laid in the pit and covered.

By about 9am Sunday morning we had a work force of under 20 
members who lined an extremely long table on either side to cut 
and spoon kai into the individual tinfoil packs. Our ladies who had 
worked hard to get the gazebo up on site at the Butter Factory 
carried on with their work of selling when we were done with the 
packing and we all came away quite proud of ourselves.

The fact that we were a little short of 500 didn't dampen our moods 
and when we heard the amount going into our bank account, we
were all rapt with our efforts.


With this Waitangi day over Te Tirohanga-A-Iwi recieved curiosity
from the public. People wanted to know what our Kaupapa was.