November 14, 2018
Tribunal to consider overlapping claim fears
A Tauranga iwi leader feels vindicated by the Waitangi Tribunal’s decision to hold an urgent hearing on the crown’s overlapping claims policy with respect to the Hauraki Collective settlement.
A number of claimants have objected to redress offered to Hauraki and the geographical scope of its claims, including Ngāi Te Rangi, Waikato Tainui, Ngātiwai, Ngāti Manuhiri, Ngāti Porou ki Hauraki and Ngāti Rangi.
Ngāi Te Rangi chair Charlie Tawhiao says his iwi lodge its claim in March 2013.
"We saw at that stage that unless we took some urgent action we could be facing a situation that was embedded in legislation, that we would not be able to live with and that would be unfortunate for both ourselves and the crown because it would have created an ongoing and longstanding grievance," he says.
Charlie Tawhiao says the claim is a sign of how the crown has mismanaged the treaty partnership.
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