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PARNELL TENANTS LOSE FIGHT WITH NGATI WHATUA OVER RISING GROUND RENTS
A bitter battle has ended, with a Ngāta Whatua Orakei subsidiary winning an Appeal Court case to stop Parnell tenants challenging their ground rent.
The issue is one of many similar arguments over recent years after Ngāti Whatua offered to lease its Treaty settlement land in the central city to developers at peppercorn rentals for many years before setting market rentals.
But, when the time came for those rentals to be set, many apartment owners, who had bought their units from developers, were horrified by their new ground rentals, which were extremely high because the land value had risen sharply. Most of these disputes have since been settled in mediation or arbitration....
www.teaonews.co.nz/2024/06/04/parnell-tenants-lose-fight-with-ngati-whatua-over-rising-ground-rents/
PETERS SETTING TIGHTER TEST FOR MĀORINESS
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters isn’t taking anything positive from a census finding that one in five New Zealanders has whakapapa Māori.
“And please don’t tell me there are a million Maori in this country because if one part in 512 makes you a Maori then you don’t know what a Maori is, or one part in 66 or one part in 32 can’t surely mean you are a Maori in this context but that’s how they are writing this deceitful and divisive census survey in this context,” Mr Peters says.
Before the 1975 change that defined Maori as a descendant of a Maori, you has to be at least 50 percent Maori to be on the Maori electoral roll.....
waateanews.com/2024/06/04/peters-setting-tighter-test-for-maoriness/
A bitter battle has ended, with a Ngāta Whatua Orakei subsidiary winning an Appeal Court case to stop Parnell tenants challenging their ground rent.
The issue is one of many similar arguments over recent years after Ngāti Whatua offered to lease its Treaty settlement land in the central city to developers at peppercorn rentals for many years before setting market rentals.
But, when the time came for those rentals to be set, many apartment owners, who had bought their units from developers, were horrified by their new ground rentals, which were extremely high because the land value had risen sharply. Most of these disputes have since been settled in mediation or arbitration....
www.teaonews.co.nz/2024/06/04/parnell-tenants-lose-fight-with-ngati-whatua-over-rising-ground-rents/
PETERS SETTING TIGHTER TEST FOR MĀORINESS
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters isn’t taking anything positive from a census finding that one in five New Zealanders has whakapapa Māori.
“And please don’t tell me there are a million Maori in this country because if one part in 512 makes you a Maori then you don’t know what a Maori is, or one part in 66 or one part in 32 can’t surely mean you are a Maori in this context but that’s how they are writing this deceitful and divisive census survey in this context,” Mr Peters says.
Before the 1975 change that defined Maori as a descendant of a Maori, you has to be at least 50 percent Maori to be on the Maori electoral roll.....
waateanews.com/2024/06/04/peters-setting-tighter-test-for-maoriness/