Waitangi Tribunal Vol 3 Kāhui Maunga Report [pdf, 13 MB]
...ngāuruhoe, and ruapehu, form the core of the national park, and the relationship between Crown and iwi which builds on the 1887 tuku . The Crown argued that this relationship improved markedly in 1987 when the Conservation Act was passed . We thus separate discussion of the manage- ment of the park into chapter 11 (1887 to 1987) and chapter 12 (1987 to 2007) . The primary question we address in both chapters is the extent to which ngā iwi o te kāhui maunga were able to exercise rangatir...