I whakawhiwhia te whānau Nichols o Tasmania ki te tohu mō te neke atu i te 100 tau o te tuhi i te ua mō BOM

I te poto:
Neke atu i te 100 tau te roa o te kohikohi a tētahi whānau i te tonga o Tasmania i ngā raraunga ua i tā rātou pāmu i Richmond, ā, ka tukuna atu ki te Tari Āhuarangi.

Kua whakawhiwhia e te BOM te whānau Nichols ki te Tohu Hiranga 100-Tau i tukuna e te kāwana o Tasmania mō tā rātou whakapau kaha ki te kohikohi raraunga mō te āhuarangi.

He aha te mea e whai ake nei?
Ka haere tonu te kohi raraunga mō te ua i te kaitiaki o te pāmu, a Richie Nichols, hei tētahi o ngā kaitūao neke atu i te 4,600 huri noa i te motu e tuku raraunga ana i ia rā.

I ia ata i te 9 karaka, ka hikoi atu a Richie Nichols ki te tirotiro i te ine ua i te pāmu a tōna whānau i te tāone o Richmond i Tasmania.

Ka tirohia e ia te maha o ngā mirimita, kātahi ka tukuna atu aua raraunga ki te Tari Matatini Āhuarangi (BOM).

He mahi tēnei nā tōna whānau mai anō i te tau 1915.

"Ka tuhia e mātou tēnā ki roto i tētahi pukapuka, kātahi ka tāpirihia ki te paetukutuku BOM, ā, ka mahia e mātou tēnā i ia rā," te kī a Mr Nichols.

He mea tino nui ngā raraunga ua kia mārama ai ngā kairangahau ki ngā au o te āhuarangi me ngā rauemi wai o te awa, ā, ka āwhina hoki ki te matapae i ngā waipuke.

I whakawhiwhia te whānau Nichols ki te Tohu Hiranga 100-Tau i te Rāhina i te Whare Kāwanatanga e te Kāwana o Tasmania, a te Kawana, a Barbara Baker.

He reanga tohu kei te hangaia
Nō te whānau o Mr Nichols te pāmu mō ngā whakatipuranga maha, ā, i kī ia he nui te hiranga o te tohu nei — ehara i te mea māna anake engari mā “te hunga katoa i mua i ahau, ā, i pupuri i ngā rēkoata ua”.

"I hokona te whenua e tōku koroua, e Joseph Phillip Nichols, ā, i tukuna e ia ki tana tama matamua, ki a Hobart Osman Nichols, ā, nō muri iho ka riro te whenua i tōku matua, i a Jeffrey Osman Nichols, ā, nō muri mai ka riro mai i ahau," tana kī.

I kī a Mr Nichols ko te takoha ki ngā raraunga āhuarangi he wāhanga o te taonga tuku iho a te whānau, arā, ko te tiaki i te taiao mō te whakatipuranga e whai ake nei.

"He mea tino nui kia whai taonga tuku iho tātou i roto i ngā whakatipuranga, ā, e tino hiahia ana mātou ki tēnā, arā, te whakato rākau me te tiaki i te taiao," tana kī.

Kua tuhia e te whānau ngā raraunga i roto i ngā waipuke me te tauraki, ā, i te tau kua hipa i puta mai he hua whakamiharo mō te whenua o Brookbank.

"E kiia ana a Richmond he rohe maroke-haurua, ā, ko te tau kua hipa te tuarua o ngā tau maroke rawa atu kua tuhia mō Brookbank, tata ki te 320 mirimita te pāmahana," tana kī.

I kī te kaiwhakahaere matua o te BOM, a Chantal Donnelly, ko ēnei tohu nui he hua nō ngā whānau kua noho ki tētahi whenua mō ngā whakatipuranga.

"He tino uaua ki te tangata kotahi te mahi ko ia anake mō ngā tau 100," tana kī.

"He tauira pai anō tēnei mō te pupuri i ēnei mōhiohio e hono ana ki ngā whakatipuranga, he mea tino nui mō te whenua."

E whakawhirinaki ana te BOM ki ngā tūao mō ngā raraunga āhuarangi

Mai i te whakatūnga o te BOM i te tau 1908, he mea nui ngā mahi a ngā tūao ki tana kohinga raraunga whānui.

Neke atu i te 4,600 ngā tūao ā-iwi huri noa i Ahitereiria e tuku takoha ana i ia rā.

I mea a Ms Donnelly he mea tino nui ngā tūao mō te BOM kia whiwhi ai i tētahi "pikitia tika o te ua puta noa i te motu".

"Ahakoa he maha ngā teihana huarere aunoa a te Tari huri noa i Ahitereiria, he whenua whānui a Ahitereiria, ā, kāore i te rawaka," tana kī.

"Nō reira, ko ngā raraunga ua e kohia ana e mātou mai i te whānau Nichols tētahi noa iho o ngā raraunga maha ka taea e mātou te kohikohi."

I kī a Mr Nichols e tumanako ana ia ka haere tonu te kohikohi a tō rātou whānau i ngā raraunga ua mō ngā tau e haere ake nei.

He pūoko mō te kohikohi ua, he ine ua