Maanu Paul

ONZM JP
Paul in 2019
Born
Cletus Maanu Paul

(1938-11-18)18 November 1938
Murupara, New Zealand
Died15 September 2022(2022-09-15) (aged 83)
Alma materHamilton Teachers' College
Occupations
  • Surveyor
  • schoolteacher
  • orchardist
Known forRole in the New Zealand Māori Council
SpouseGwenda Paul
Children4

Cletus Maanu Paul ONZM JP (18 November 1938 – 15 September 2022) was a New Zealand Māori leader. He served as co-chair of the New Zealand Māori Council.[1][2]

Early life

Born in Murupara on 18 November 1938, Paul affiliated to Ngāti Awa and Ngāti Manawa.[3][4] After leaving school he worked as a surveyor, but later studied to become a teacher at Hamilton Teachers' College in 1974. His first teaching post was at Hamilton Boys' High School, and in 1975 he took a group of students to take part in the Māori land march when it passed through Hamilton.[3]

Public life

Paul stood as a parliamentary candidate in Eastern Maori representing the Social Credit Political League at three successive elections in the 1960s, finishing in third place on each occasion. At the 1966 general election, he gained 1,158 votes (10.42 % of the votes), but his best result came the following year at the 1967 Eastern Maori by-election when he won 13.53 per cent of the vote with 1219 votes. In the 1969 general election, his vote dropped to 679, or 5.81 per cent of the vote.[5]

In 2012, Paul was involved in a legal challenge of the Fifth National Government's programme of partial privatisation of state-owned assets.[6] He was involved in a number of claims to the Waitangi Tribunal, including a claim into the Government's review of the 1962 Maori Community Development Act.[7] Paul also highlighted the danger that falling carbon credits in the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme pose to Māori commercial ventures. He advocated the stopping of international carbon credits from being valid in the New Zealand scheme, in order to increase the price of carbon.[8]

In the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours, Paul was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to Māori.[9]

Personal life and death

In 2013, it was reported that Paul had cancer and had undergone chemotherapy.[10] He died on 15 September 2022, at the age of 83.[3][11]

References

  1. ↑ "Our Team". New Zealand Māori Council. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  2. ↑ "Waatea News | Podcasts". Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 "Maanu Paul a fighter for Māori rights". Waatea News. 15 September 2022. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
  4. ↑ "Death search: registration number 2022/29477". Births, deaths & marriages online. Department of Internal Affairs. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
  5. ↑ Norton, Clifford (1988). New Zealand Parliamentary Election Results 1946–1987: Occasional Publications No 1, Department of Political Science. Victoria University of Wellington. p. 395. ISBN 0-475-11200-8.
  6. ↑ Bennett, Adam (3 September 2012). "Asset sales: Maori all set for court". New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  7. ↑ "Maori council co-chair urges support for council at hui". Radio New Zealand News. 26 August 2013. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  8. ↑ "Carbon Credit value may jeopardise Māori ventures". Maori television. 10 October 2013. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  9. ↑ "Queen's Birthday honours list 2019". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 3 June 2019. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
  10. ↑ "Maanu Paul's health on the improve". Radio New Zealand News. 26 August 2013. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  11. ↑ Wikaire-Lewis, Mana (15 September 2022). "Māori rights advocate Maanu Paul dies". NZ Herald. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
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