Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jan 20, 2016 16:38:48 GMT 12
Wanganui iwi expect the title of Pakaitore/Moutoa Gardens to come back to them,
Mariana Waitai told a group yesterday.
She expected the title of the land to come back to the tribe, and for it to be managed by the new Nga Tangata Tiaki Trust.
"We are still looking at shutting the road down so that this whole area can be a walking space and show the connection across the road to the river."
The concrete strip in the grass at the gardens was used to check the length of chain measures used to survey land before it was sold.
Ms Waitai said the measure was "the worst symbol of oppression" that she knew.
"The only ones that benefited were tauiwi (non-Maori)."
The "stolen" land destroyed the tribe's infrastructure and its people lost their economic base, creating generations of mamae (pain), she said……
m.nzherald.co.nz/wanganui-chronicle/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503426&objectid=11575985
Mariana Waitai told a group yesterday.
She expected the title of the land to come back to the tribe, and for it to be managed by the new Nga Tangata Tiaki Trust.
"We are still looking at shutting the road down so that this whole area can be a walking space and show the connection across the road to the river."
The concrete strip in the grass at the gardens was used to check the length of chain measures used to survey land before it was sold.
Ms Waitai said the measure was "the worst symbol of oppression" that she knew.
"The only ones that benefited were tauiwi (non-Maori)."
The "stolen" land destroyed the tribe's infrastructure and its people lost their economic base, creating generations of mamae (pain), she said……
m.nzherald.co.nz/wanganui-chronicle/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503426&objectid=11575985
