June 27, 2014
Kaingaroa carve up decided
A panel has today released the results of its adjudication of mana whenua disputes among the Central North Island Iwi Collective.
When the eight iwi reached a shared settlement in 2008 for the central North Island forests including Kaingaroa, the 23 blocks were vested in a holding company.
The underlying land will be allocated to iwi on 1 July, 2044.
The process to decide who should own the various blocks was supposed to take two years, but agreement has been reached on only four blocks.
Ten blocks are still to be negotiated by iwi to determine, and the nine blocks of the Kaingaroa forest, which makes up about half the settlement lands were referred to an adjudication panel of Moana Jackson, Wayne Ngata and Tahu Potiki.
CNI Iwi Holdings chair Matt Te Pou says it was a unique process, and the process of working together over the past six years has made the CNI Iwi Collective stronger and more unified.
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