Post by Kiwi Frontline on Apr 4, 2020 3:31:17 GMT 12
TREATY RESUMPTION ORDER OPENS DOORS
The Wairarapa Moana Incorporation’s push for land in Mangakino, north of Taupo, to be included in Treaty settlement claims has received the green light after a favourable ruling from the Waitangi Tribunal.
The land at Mangakino had been given to local iwi after the destruction of the fishing economy based around Lake Wairarapa.
No Crown land was available in Wairarapa, so the reserve land Mangakino was offered instead.
In 1947, this land was bought back by the Crown to build the Maraetai power scheme.
However, the Waitangi Tribunal found that this land was wrongly taken and that the Crown should have better compensated the Incorporation’s owners due to the land’s unique value for creating a nationally significant source of electricity......
times-age.co.nz/treaty-resumption-order-opens-doors/
The Wairarapa Moana Incorporation’s push for land in Mangakino, north of Taupo, to be included in Treaty settlement claims has received the green light after a favourable ruling from the Waitangi Tribunal.
The land at Mangakino had been given to local iwi after the destruction of the fishing economy based around Lake Wairarapa.
No Crown land was available in Wairarapa, so the reserve land Mangakino was offered instead.
In 1947, this land was bought back by the Crown to build the Maraetai power scheme.
However, the Waitangi Tribunal found that this land was wrongly taken and that the Crown should have better compensated the Incorporation’s owners due to the land’s unique value for creating a nationally significant source of electricity......
times-age.co.nz/treaty-resumption-order-opens-doors/