Waitangi Tribunal theme Q - Foreshore [pdf, 559 KB]
...of it over to harbour boards (as at Napier, the Manukau, Whangarei Harbour to name a few), allowing private individuals to build stop-banks so that shellfish gathering areas are ruined and Maori landowners lose access from the sea (as at Hokianga), permitting trucks and buses to use a beach as an unrestricted road (as on Ninety-Mile beach), and allowing reclamations, sewage disposal, marine pollution and so on (as just about everywhere), is quite another. It is in situations of the latte...