Te Manutukutuku Issue 39 [pdf, 5.2 MB]
...the sale of a block of land to the Crown by a man who was not the rightful owner. Ninety·six year old kaumiitua Te Otene (Blue) Anaru of Ngiiti Tu at the hearing of the Mohaka-Waikare lands claim at Tangoio Evidence also came from Victoria University historian , Richard Boast, who held that confiscation had been authorised by proclamation on 12 January 1867. This was based on the recommendation of Crown agent Donald McLean, who was also then the Superintendant of Hawke's B...