Waitangi Tribunal - Part II Te Urewera [pdf, 6.9 MB]
...awarded to claimants in our inquiry district by 1930 . This dispossession was in large part paid for by the dispossessed, through the medium of survey costs, which in the case of some small blocks consumed the major part of the land . On top of that were court fees and the sheer inconvenience and cost of attending sometimes lengthy court sittings at a distance . Th...