Some of these quarry, hammer stone and flinting sites include the Oparapara, Hebbards, Bennets and Oakleys quarries. Ngāti Kuia tupuna had considerable knowledge of places for gathering pakohe and associated rocks, ways in which this taonga could be used with tikanga for the proper and sustainable utilisation of resources. All these values remain important to Ngāti Kuia today. This taonga symbolises for Ngāti Kuia people the intense nature of their relationship to their environment and the mauri or life force that is contained in all parts of the natural environment and binds the spiritual and physical world. Pakohe incorporates the cultural value of Ngāti Ku ia mauri. Ngāti Kuia has ma na, whakapapa associations and history associated with this taonga. We have tikanga and kawa which involve tapu and noa and a responsibility and obligation to this taonga and its cultural, spiritual, historic and/or traditional values. Te Tau Ihu Statutory Acknowledgements Page 43 of 163