August 09, 2018
Ngāti Paoa push for better deal
Ngāti Paoa says it won’t initial the Marutūāhu Collective Deed of Settlement until it has held further talks about how the commercial redress will be allocated and managed.
In a statement released last night, negotiator Morehu Wilson says it has been given a deadline of today to initial the deed, or the allocation would be reset.
He says Ngāti Paoa had the most significant interests in Tāmaki of all the Marutūāhu iwi because it settled there while the others remained based in Hauraki.
Their interests in Tāmaki came through their ties to Ngāti Paoa, and the fact did not have significant land holdings or ahi kā was reflected in the individual Iwi settlements.
Mr Wilson says he’s keen to start a tikanga process with the other iwi so assets can be allocated by what is tika, pono and aroha.
Ngāti Paoa was also slow to sign the Tāmaki Collective settlement, only doing so a few weeks after the rest of the iwi.
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