Waitangi Tribunal - Poverty Bay [pdf, 4.2 MB]
...leaving 372,414 acres (150,715 hectares) of Maori land, most of which was either leased or held as part of the East Coast Trust. Although Maori were to receive some of this land back in incorporated ownership in later years, more land would be alienated through sale and public works takings. In a 50-year period, approximately 75 per cent of the tribal estate had been alienated. The purpose of this report is to examine how this occurred, and to identify some of the issues surrounding that land l...