Francis Rei Paul Hamon CBE (1919–2008) te pakiaka o ngā mea katoa i taku whārangi Hamon Family Entertainment, ā, te take e ora ai aku ake ira. Tōku tupuna koroua, o Ngāti Porou me Te Aitanga ā Māhaki, i whānau mai i Gisborne i te 17 o Tīhema 1919, ā, i tipu ake i waenga i ngā ao e rua, te tama a tētahi whaea Pākehā me tētahi pāpā Māori wāhanga. I tū ia hei tohunga toi ira rongonui rawa kua puta i Aotearoa, e tā ana i te ngahere taketake o Aotearoa, ira kōtahi i ia wā.

Na te ngahere ia i whakatipu i te tuatahi. I mahi a Rei i ngā ngahere o Te Urewera e wāwāhi ana i ngā pou mō ngā taiapa hipi, ā, i whakahaere ia i te Thames Sawmilling Company. I te tau 1961 i whakahaua ia ki te tirotiro i te tope o tētahi kauri nui i runga ake i Tapu. I te hinganga o te rākau me tōna haehae i ngā whakatupuranga o ngā kākā me ngā kererū e kohanga ana, ka tukua e ia tana rihaina i taua wā tonu, ā, ka oti ia e kore ia e tope anō i tētahi rākau ora. I kī a Dr Pita Sharples, i tōna poroporoaki ki a ia mō te Māori Party, he tangata tiaki taiao pūmau ia, ā, ko taua oati te huringa e huri ai tōna oranga katoa: ko te tangata i utua ki te tope i te ngahere ka tū hei tangata i pau te toenga o tōna oranga ki te tā anō i te ngahere kia mau tonu.

E 46 ōna tau, he tangata rori me ngā awakeri, i te taenga mai o te tākoha i te tau 1965. I mahi tuatahi me tētahi pene poi, kātahi me te pene me te waituhi, i whakaako anō ia i a ia anō, i hanga a Rei i ngā ngahere katoa mai i ngā miriona ira takitahi. He rau hāora te roa o ngā mahi takitahi, ētahi he roa ake, he maha i tāia i te pō tino tūreiti mai i te mahara i a tōna whānau e moe ana. I kite te ao toi: i waenganui o ngā tau 1970 e whakatakoto ana āna tānga i ngā rekooti o te ao mō te mahi pene me te waituhi a tētahi ringatoi ora, i hokona tētahi mō te $20,000. I te tau 1976 i tāpae te Kāwanatanga o Aotearoa i tana tānga Jewels of Okarito ki a Queen Elizabeth II i tōna toronga ā-motu, ā, e iri tonu ana i te kohinga ariki i Ingarangi ki tēnei rā. I ngā 1981 New Year Honours i whakaingoatia ia he Commander of the Order of the British Empire mō āna mahi ki te toi. Ko tāna ake kōrero mō te mahi te mea e rere tonu nei tōku whakapapa: “I roto i aua miriona ira kua tāia e au ki reira, kua kitea e au he ara ki te tuhi i ō tātou kare ā-roto.”

E kōrero ana ngā tau o te whānau i tā rātou ake kōrero: te mātāmua o ngā tamariki tekau mā whā, te pāpā o ngā tamariki tekau mā whā, ā, me tana Maia arohaina te upoko o tētahi kāinga i whakatipu i ngā tamariki toru tekau mā tahi, he maha he pāngore me ngā tamariki whāngai i tangohia mai me te kore ruarua. I rere tōna whakapono puta noa i ngā mea katoa, ā, ko tētahi o āna mahi tino pai, he whakaahua 600 hāora o Joseph Smith e whiwhi ana i ngā papa, i tāpaetia ki tōna Hāhi. I tāpae anō rāua ko tana tama a Albert i ā rāua toi mō te ngahere tonu, tae atu ki tētahi hoko i Rānana i kohi pūtea hei whakaora i te kōkako.

I mate a Rei i Thames i te 16 o Ākuhata 2008, e 88 ōna tau. Ko te pakipūmeka o te tau 2010 Rei Hamon: Man of Nature, i hangaia e tana mokopuna a Huia Hamon, e kawe ana i tōna kōrero ki te mata, ā, e takoto ana āna mahi taketake i ngā pūranga tūmataiti me te Royal Family Gallery i te UK. Kei tana tama a Albert te taiwhanga e tiaki ana. Kei tana mokopuna koroua i Edmonton ngā ira e whakatakoto ana i tōna ingoa. E mau ana te whakapapa.

Mai i Rei Hamon: Man of Nature (2010), te pakipūmeka mō Rei i hangaia e tana mokopuna a Huia Hamon.

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