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Crown settles Treaty claims with Ngati Tamaoho

Author
Newstalk ZB Staff,
Publish Date
Sun, 30 Apr 2017, 5:41PM
Christopher Finlayson, the minister in charge of Treaty negotiations. (Getty)
Christopher Finlayson, the minister in charge of Treaty negotiations. (Getty)

Crown settles Treaty claims with Ngati Tamaoho

Author
Newstalk ZB Staff,
Publish Date
Sun, 30 Apr 2017, 5:41PM

The Crown has signed a deed settling Treaty of Waitangi claims of Ngati Tamaoho, an iwi with interests from Waikato to the Auckland suburbs of Remuera and Ellerslie.

Christopher Finlayson, the minister in charge of Treaty negotiations, says the deed of settlement signed at Mangatangi Marae provides an acknowledgement, apology and redress for the Crown's historical breaches of the treaty.

He says Crown actions and omissions left Ngati Tamaoho virtually landless by 1900 and resulted in socio-economic depravation, the effects of which can still be seen today.

Commercial and financial redress totalling $10.3 million includes the transfer of, and opportunity to purchase, specified Crown property.

There is also a cultural revitalisation fund of $590,000.

The iwi is a member of the Tamaki Collective.

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