Post by Kiwi Frontline on May 12, 2023 5:07:43 GMT 12
‘SIGNIFICANT OBJECTION’ EXPECTED AT HEARING INTO RENEWAL OF LEASE OF TOKOMARU BAY SPORTS FIELD
A 2008 document for the Waitangi Tribunal’s East Coast Inquiry reveals a cricket-loving European settler upset Māori landowners by leasing the land in question and repurposing it without permission.
According to The Impact of the Native Townships Act 1895 on the East Coast (Wai 900), the land was leased in 1907 to William Oates for two pounds per annum.
Around that time, Oates and a number of others unsuccessfully lobbied the government to include additional land within the township as a recreation reserve.
After Oates obtained the lease to the land, he effectively changed its purpose to that of a sports ground....
www.gisborneherald.co.nz/ldr/significant-objection-expected-at-hearing-into-renewal-of-lease-of-tokomaru-bay-sports-field
A 2008 document for the Waitangi Tribunal’s East Coast Inquiry reveals a cricket-loving European settler upset Māori landowners by leasing the land in question and repurposing it without permission.
According to The Impact of the Native Townships Act 1895 on the East Coast (Wai 900), the land was leased in 1907 to William Oates for two pounds per annum.
Around that time, Oates and a number of others unsuccessfully lobbied the government to include additional land within the township as a recreation reserve.
After Oates obtained the lease to the land, he effectively changed its purpose to that of a sports ground....
www.gisborneherald.co.nz/ldr/significant-objection-expected-at-hearing-into-renewal-of-lease-of-tokomaru-bay-sports-field