Ngātata Love
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Sir Ralph Heberley Love {{post-nominals|country=NZL|size=100%|GNZM|QSO|JP}} (7 September 1937 – 17 October 2018), known as Ngātata Love, was a New Zealand Waitangi Tribunal negotiator, academic and Māori leader.{{cite web|url=http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/maori-leader-honour-reflects-work-many-2431992|title=Maori leader: honour reflects work of many|date=31 December 2008|publisher=TVNZ|accessdate=7 January 2009}} Love was a Professor Emeritus of Business Development at Victoria University of Wellington's Victoria Management School.[http://www.victoria.ac.nz/vms/staff/ngatata-love.aspx Ngatata Love – School of Management – Victoria University of Wellington] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100116183835/http://www.victoria.ac.nz/vms/staff/ngatata-love.aspx |date=16 January 2010 }}. Victoria.ac.nz, 23 August 2012; retrieved 28 April 2016. In 2016 he was convicted of defrauding his own iwi, taking payments of $1.5 million.
Biography
Ralph Heberley Love was born in 1937, the son of the Te Āti Awa leader Sir Ralph Love, and his wife, Lady Flora. He was educated at Wellington College and attended university part-time. When his father was elected Mayor of Petone in 1965 he was likewise elected as a member of the Petone Borough Council at the same election.{{cite news |title=Maoris and Chinese are Elected |work=The Evening Post |date=11 October 1965 |page=21 }} Both he and his father were defeated at the 1968 elections.{{cite news |title=Petone |work=The Evening Post |date=14 October 1968 |page=13 }}
In the 2001 New Year Honours, Love was appointed a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for public services.{{cite web | url=https://dpmc.govt.nz/publications/new-year-honours-list-2001 | title=New Year honours list 2001 |date=30 December 2000 | publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet | accessdate=17 August 2019}} He was made a Principal Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Māori in the 2009 New Year Honours,{{cite web |url=http://www.dpmc.govt.nz/node/366 |title=New Year honours list 2009 |date=31 December 2008 |publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |accessdate=14 April 2016}} and later that year accepted re-designation as a Knight Grand Companion of the same order following the restoration of titular honours by the New Zealand government.{{cite web |url=http://www.dpmc.govt.nz/node/364 |title=Special honours list 1 August 2009 |date=1 August 2009 |publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |accessdate=14 April 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10610241|title=Grand day for Sir Ngatata|date=19 November 2009|publisher=New Zealand Herald|accessdate=27 August 2011}}
At the same time Love stated that he is a supporter of a New Zealand republic and that "Even though I am an avowed republican, we must never abandon the history we share with Britain. Particularly at times of conflict."{{cite web|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/3076627/Arise-and-awaken-Sir-Ngatata|title=Arise and awaken Sir Ngatata|publisher=The Dominion Post|date=19 November 2009|accessdate=27 August 2011}}
In March 2009, Love suggested that secondary students should have the option of going to wānanga (Māori tertiary institutions) rather than staying at school.{{cite web|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10560441|title=Educator proposes radical approach for Maori students |date=11 March 2009|publisher=Stuff|accessdate=11 March 2009}}
Three years later he stepped aside from a number of positions representing Māori and the Serious Fraud Office said it was investigating a matter in relation to the Wellington Tenths Trust.[http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/7530188/SFO-probes-deals-by-Tenths-Trust SFO probes deals by Tenths Trust]. Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved on 28 April 2016. In August 2016, Love went on trial, accused of defrauding his iwi. The Crown accused Love of taking two payments worth $1.5 million in late 2006 and early 2007. The payments were in exchange for showing favour toward Redwood Group, a property developer looking to develop Wellington Tenths Trust land near Parliament.{{cite web|title=Professor Sir Ngatata Love, leading academic and treaty negotiator, on trial for defrauding his iwi|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/82757397/professor-sir-ngatata-love-leading-academic-and-treaty-negotiator-on-trial-for-defrauding-his-iwi|publisher=stuff.co.nz|accessdate=2 August 2016}} He was found guilty on 1 September 2016.{{cite web|title=Sir Ngatata Love should lose knighthood – Tenths Trust beneficiary call|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/83775113/sir-ngatata-love-found-guilty-of-fraud|publisher=stuff.co.nz|accessdate=1 September 2016}} Love was subsequently sentenced to two and a half years imprisonment.{{cite web|title=Sir Ngatata Love sentenced to two and a half years in prison|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/85081438/sir-ngatata-love-sentenced-to-two-and-a-half-years-in-prison|publisher=stuff.co.nz|accessdate=7 October 2016}}
He died at his home in Korokoro on 17 October 2018{{Cite news|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12146989|title=Māori leader Sir Ngātata Love dies|newspaper=The New Zealand Herald|date=23 October 2018}} and was privately cremated without a tangi.{{cite web|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/108026719/M-ori-leader-Sir-Ng-tata-Love-dies.html|title=Māori leader Sir Ngātata Love dies|website=Stuff}}{{cite web|url=https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/369214/wellington-maori-leader-sir-ngatata-love-dies|title=Wellington Māori leader Sir Ngātata Love dies|date=23 October 2018|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/369288/sir-ngatata-love-worked-extraordinarily-hard-for-his-people|title=Sir Ngātata Love 'worked extraordinarily hard for his people'|date=23 October 2018|publisher=}} At the time of his death, Love was being pursued for bankruptcy by the lawyers from his criminal trial.{{cite web|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/107698593/sir-ngtata-love-bankrupted-over-lawyers-fees-from-criminal-trial.html|title=Sir Ngātata Love bankrupted over lawyer's fees from criminal trial|website=Stuff}}{{cite web|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/102028218/Lawyers-chase-Sir-Ng-tata-Love-over-unpaid-bills-from-criminal-trial.html|title=Lawyers chase Sir Ngātata Love over unpaid bills from criminal trial|website=Stuff}}
Notable students of Love include Takiora Ingram.{{Cite thesis |title=Indigenous entrepreneurship and tourism development in the Cook Islands and Fiji |url=http://hdl.handle.net/10179/3344 |publisher=Massey Research Online, Massey University |date=1990 |degree=PhD |language=en |first=Pamela Takiora |last=Ingram}}
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