Post by Kiwi Frontline on Nov 20, 2023 10:35:01 GMT 12
Mike Butler: LAND SOLD, NOT ‘LOST’.
Maori vendors sold a whopping 92 percent of the land area of New Zealand for all sorts of reasons, but mainly, that it was more in their interest to sell than to hold on to it, which is much the same choice made by any ownership group of any asset.
Surplus land is one more aspect to this discussion.
Surplus land was land retained by the Crown after pre-1840 land sales were investigated, and when numerous sales were either overturned or the permitted area sold was greatly reduced.
The surplus land, being the difference between the land originally sold, and the area permitted to remain sold, was in many cases retained by the Crown.
The total area of such surplus land is difficult to find, although figures in the Waitangi Tribunal’s National Overview of 82,555 hectares retained by the Crown of original sales totalling 1.2 million hectares, show a ratio of surplus land retained in that manner.
A point to note that the surplus land taken by the Crown had originally been sold.
But the fact that it had been taken by the Crown would also qualify it for Davidson’s description of land that had been stolen.
A myth has grown over the years since 1973, when Nga Tamatoa protesters disrupted Waitangi Day by wearing black armbands mourned the loss of the entire land area of New Zealand.
That myth is that since the 1800s, Maori “lost” most of their land.
But as we have seen, apart from the relatively small percentage of land confiscated, and apart from surplus land retained by the Crown, Maori vendors sold land at mutually agreed prices over a long period of time.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/11/mike-butler-land-sold-not-lost.html
Maori vendors sold a whopping 92 percent of the land area of New Zealand for all sorts of reasons, but mainly, that it was more in their interest to sell than to hold on to it, which is much the same choice made by any ownership group of any asset.
Surplus land is one more aspect to this discussion.
Surplus land was land retained by the Crown after pre-1840 land sales were investigated, and when numerous sales were either overturned or the permitted area sold was greatly reduced.
The surplus land, being the difference between the land originally sold, and the area permitted to remain sold, was in many cases retained by the Crown.
The total area of such surplus land is difficult to find, although figures in the Waitangi Tribunal’s National Overview of 82,555 hectares retained by the Crown of original sales totalling 1.2 million hectares, show a ratio of surplus land retained in that manner.
A point to note that the surplus land taken by the Crown had originally been sold.
But the fact that it had been taken by the Crown would also qualify it for Davidson’s description of land that had been stolen.
A myth has grown over the years since 1973, when Nga Tamatoa protesters disrupted Waitangi Day by wearing black armbands mourned the loss of the entire land area of New Zealand.
That myth is that since the 1800s, Maori “lost” most of their land.
But as we have seen, apart from the relatively small percentage of land confiscated, and apart from surplus land retained by the Crown, Maori vendors sold land at mutually agreed prices over a long period of time.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/11/mike-butler-land-sold-not-lost.html