More people began to arrive by boat — reporters, representatives of several regional conservation groups, members of the local Maori iwi, or tribe.
The store carries an eclectic mix of modern furniture, including clean-lined pieces by the French designer Christophe Delcourt (the IWI oak armchairs, left, are $3,815 each), the Dutch designers Marcel Wolterinck and Marlieke Van Rossum and the German ceramist Lutz Könecke (the vases, above, are $1,368 each).
"IWI would make the world's environmental situation worse," said Georges Menahem of the National Scientific Research Institute of France.
The film's 11-year-old protagonist, Pai, is the only grandchild of Koro, who is the hereditary leader of his iwi (clan) in the fictionalised, but real, coastal village of Whangara.
The prime minister was addressing a tourism conference when he made a reference to an ongoing dispute between the government and the Tuhoe iwi rooted in the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi between Britain and Maori chiefs.
Pai's intuitive sense of her destiny, and Koro's struggle between love for his only grandchild and resentment at her perceived part in the death of his iwi, form the heart of the story.
Harper's mother Jolene Spies, descended from the Ngai Tahu iwi or tribe of the southern region of New Zealand, commissioned Nolan as a birth photographer.
"The good news was that I was having dinner with Ngati Porou as opposed to their neighbouring iwi, which is Tuhoe, in which case I would have been the dinner, which wouldn't have been quite so attractive".
As in much of Ihimaera's fiction, the decline of traditional Maori culture is a constant theme; Koro believes that his descendant is destined to revive his iwi's fortunes in the manner of his legendary forebear Paikea, who rode from Polynesia on the back of a whale.
The Inclusive Wealth Index (IWI), for instance, a measure introduced by the UN Environment Programme (Unep) and the UN University, has been criticised on environmental grounds and portrayed as misleading and potentially damaging.
