Club representatives are invited to attend our Hoe Tonga Special General Meeting to be held online with Board Members. Meeting date: 12 February 2025 at 6:30pm – 7:30pm.
In preparation for this meeting the Hoe Tonga Board present their 2024 Annual Report:
To register your interest in attending please email: hoetonga@gmail.com
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Are you looking for a change and interested in the growth and development of Waka ama in Hoe Tonga region – check out the role description here
If you are keen to volunteer at our Regional Sprints at Henley Lake, Masterton on 16 & 17 November 2024 please do not hesitate to contact us hoetonga@gmail.com
What would I volunteer to do? An example of what tasks volunteers undertake are below:
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Our Hoe Tonga Regional Waka ama Sprint Competition 2024 will be held in Masterton on 16 & 17 November 2024 and more details regarding this event will be available via this site and on Waka ama NZ website here
Club coordinators will be able to process entries online. Please ensure if you are processing entries that you keep register up to date and send your contact details to hoetonga@gmail.com so we can keep in touch.
Paddlers who wish to compete please make sure you have registered your membership with your Club coordinator.
Please email hoetonga@gmail.com if you have any questions or able to assist with the planning and execution of this event.
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Hoe Tonga’s AGM 2023 was held on 25 June 2024 online via ZOOM. The majority of clubs were represented, alongside former Board members and Trevor Mieklejohn, (Aukaha Project Manager, Waka Ama NZ). The annual report for 2023 was accepted, and a copy of the report is available here.
Our thanks to outgoing Board members Stacey Agnew, Pania Tauhau-Hodges, Patrick Rimene – Hoe Tonga thanks you for your support and governance.
The results of board member elections were also confirmed. Voting took place by postal vote, and 13 club submitted votes a 100% return rate – ka pai koutou!. The successful candidates were James Sadler, Ani Suitauloa, Mataiawhea Te Kere and Karl Hobman. Welcome aboard and thanks to all nominees and club representatives for engaging in this process.
The new Board will meet with our remaining Board member Anita Taggart in the near future, and elect a new chair. Please email hoetonga@gmail.com if you would like to share ideas, concerns with the Board.
Hoe Tonga will conduct its Annual General Meeting on 25 June, at 7pm via ZOOM.
We are pleased to present the nominees/candidates received by our affiliated member clubs for positions on the Hoe Tonga Board and share with you their profiles below. Nominations for these positions has now closed.
Hoe Tonga are seeking FOUR Elected Board Members and your club representatives have been sent additional information and a voting form to be returned by 5pm on 21 June 2024.
Results will be shared with you at the AGM and we welcome your attendance.
It is not too late to register your attendance at the AGM by emailing hoetonga@gmail.com as this meeting will be held online. Once registered the ZOOM link will be shared with you.
The DRAFT agenda is as follows:
A huge thank you to everyone who attended our Secondary School Regional Waka Ama event this weekend. There was plenty of quality racing on display and we were pleased with the really positive vibe across the race site.
As our biggest Secondary event so far, there were some complications that happened during the day and I, Andy Hanara would like to sincerely apologise to those that were affected, we aim to do our very best we can for our paddlers and their schools. We appreciated the patience and understanding from everyone though.
We are very grateful to all the race day volunteers who gave their time and energy supporting the running of this event, without you all the day wouldn’t have been possible. It is not an easy job and we would love more help from our clubs in the future. We will do a better job to ask for assistance earlier next time.
Huge gratitude goes out to all the parents, coaches, teachers, managers and schools for your support of waka ama with your young people. We know it isn’t always easy getting the trainings, equipment and travel arranged and we really do appreciate your efforts.
Lastly, well done to all the competitors. We hope that you enjoyed the competition and look forward to seeing many of you again next year.
Congratulations to Manukura, third year in a row, winning the Excellence Award!!! and a huge well done to Wellington High School for taking home the School Sport Spirit Award.
All the best at the 2024 Secondary School Nationals.
Also please we would love to hear your feedback on the event, we can only learn and grow from it.
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It’s looking like it is going to be bigger than last year. How good!! Our Secondary Schools Regional Champs has become a big hit over the past few years, Thanks to Henley Lake for always providing the goods. We look forward to another amazing day of racing. Our event is a great opportunity for the experience paddlers to test themselves against one another and also for our new paddlers/teams to be fearless and courageous and have a go and for teams to get a gauge, where they’re at amongst other schools. Nothing to lose, Everything to gain!!!
There will also only be Gold and Silver Medals handed out this year and the team that places 3rd, one Bronze ribbon will be given for the whole team.
In the Pānui it states what time your school is Volunteering in the loading bay, which will be in the water, marshaling waka to their designated area and helping paddlers get in their waka. You will need a spare change of clothes to change into, appropriate footwear, water bottle and sunscreen. Also a reminder to bring your waiver form with you, hand it to Registration first thing in the morning and get signed off.
Any questions email through to Hoetonga@gmail.com
Ki te hoe!!
It’s that time again whānau, Ko wai ka hua, ko wai ka tohu, ko wai ka toa!!
Last year’s event was such a success, our biggest ever Hoe Tonga event and we are definitely looking to replicate it. 🙂 We love seeing all of our rangatahi enjoying Waka Ama, enjoying paddling with their friends, creating new experiences whilst representing their school and their whānau.
Notices
All schools MUST fill out there Wavier forms before the event and hand into registration. There will be no waiver forms printed off at the event. No Wavier, your team will not be racing.
College entries are through CSW link https://enternow.co.nz/csw
Year 7&8’s entries to be sent to hoetonga@gmail.com
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