Post by Kiwi Frontline on Apr 15, 2016 9:03:47 GMT 12
WAITARA LEASEHOLDERS PRESSURED
A further step in a long-running dispute over leasehold land at Waitara, 16km from New Plymouth, was made last night when the New Plymouth District Council voted unanimously in favour of a proposed local bill.
That bill would give 76 hectares of land to Taranaki tribe Te Atiawa and give Waitara leaseholders the right to buy the land under their homes.
Leasehold land at Waitara has history. Just 48 per cent of the land was part of the Peka Peka block, a dispute over which sparked armed conflict in Taranaki from 1860 to 1861.
Land owner Te Teira Manuka wished to sell the land to the government but a third party, Wiremu Kingi, opposed any sale, sparking conflict.
Sporadic fighting in Taranaki for one year from March 1860 resulted in the deaths of 196 anti-government Maori, and that of 64 pro-government Maori, settlers, and British troops, the destruction of the local economy, and the confiscation of 187,000ha of land.
Subsequently, the Crown gifted confiscated land, including that at Waitara, to local authorities. The New Plymouth District Council administers the Waitara endowment land under the Waitara Harbour Act 1940 and the Waitara Borough Reserves Vesting Act 1909, both of which limit what the council can do with the endowment land and funds gained from that land. (1)….
Continue reading Mike Butler's informative article here > breakingviewsnz.blogspot.co.nz/2016/04/mike-butler-waitara-leaseholders.html
A further step in a long-running dispute over leasehold land at Waitara, 16km from New Plymouth, was made last night when the New Plymouth District Council voted unanimously in favour of a proposed local bill.
That bill would give 76 hectares of land to Taranaki tribe Te Atiawa and give Waitara leaseholders the right to buy the land under their homes.
Leasehold land at Waitara has history. Just 48 per cent of the land was part of the Peka Peka block, a dispute over which sparked armed conflict in Taranaki from 1860 to 1861.
Land owner Te Teira Manuka wished to sell the land to the government but a third party, Wiremu Kingi, opposed any sale, sparking conflict.
Sporadic fighting in Taranaki for one year from March 1860 resulted in the deaths of 196 anti-government Maori, and that of 64 pro-government Maori, settlers, and British troops, the destruction of the local economy, and the confiscation of 187,000ha of land.
Subsequently, the Crown gifted confiscated land, including that at Waitara, to local authorities. The New Plymouth District Council administers the Waitara endowment land under the Waitara Harbour Act 1940 and the Waitara Borough Reserves Vesting Act 1909, both of which limit what the council can do with the endowment land and funds gained from that land. (1)….
Continue reading Mike Butler's informative article here > breakingviewsnz.blogspot.co.nz/2016/04/mike-butler-waitara-leaseholders.html