Ngāpuhi treaty settlement body Tūhoronuku will meet in Whangārei today to consider its next steps now a proposal to evolve its mandate failed to win the required levels of support.

Just 51 percent of individual voters agreed with a proposal to let clusters of hapū take over the task of negotiating cultural redress, and a majority of hapū endorsement hui voted kāhore.

Tūhoronuku member Piripi Moore says there is now a proposal for the 31 hapū who voted in favour to resume negotiating on the existing mandate ... and he’s unhappy with that.

He says a fresh mandate process is needed.

"The current mandate holders are not going to get us there. They have had 10 years of trying to do that and the Tūhoronuku mandate needs to be hung up on a hook and taken out of the equation so the rest of Ngāpuhi, the hapū in the regions, can get together and start designing what will work and what will function and what will meet their needs," Mr Moore says.

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