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A History of the Motatau Blocks C.1880-C.1980 Peter Clayworth 2016 Wai 1040, #A65 A History of the Motatau Blocks c.1880-c.1980 Peter Clayworth 2016 Report commissioned by the Waitangi Tribunal for stage 2 of the Te Paparahi o Te Raki inquiry (Wai 1040) 2 Table of contents LIST OF MAPS AND IMAGES ......................................................................................................9 Map sources .................................................................................................................................................... 10 PREFACE ..................................................................................................................................29 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................30 Chapter Structure .......................................................................................................................................... 34 Report coverage ............................................................................................................................................. 38 Methodology ................................................................................................................................................... 39 Use of te reo sources ................................................................................................................................... 41 Use of existing technical reports ................................................................................................................. 41 Determining broad patterns: partition, alienation, conversion, and Europeanisation ............................... 43 Methodology re: consolidation ................................................................................................................... 45 Meetings with claimant informants .............................................................................................................. 45 CHAPTER 1: THE MOTATAU BLOCKS: THE ROHE POTAE AND THE 1886 ARBITRATION .....47 1.1 Introduction .............................................................................................................................................. 47 1.2 The Environment and resources of the Motatau blocks ....................................................................... 47 1.3 The Rohe Potae and the 1886 arbitration .............................................................................................. 53 1.4 The publication of Ko Te Ture mo Te Whenua Papatupu 1887 ............................................................ 63 1.5 Continued opposition to surveying 1889-1903 ....................................................................................... 65 1.6 Conclusion ................................................................................................................................................ 75 CHAPTER 2: THE PAPATUPU BLOCK COMMITTEES AND THE MAORI LAND COUNCIL 1900- 1903..........................................................................................................................................77 2.1 Introduction .............................................................................................................................................. 77 2.2 The Maori Lands Administration Act 1900 ........................................................................................... 77 2.3 The Motatau 1-4 blocks and the Papatupu Block Committee process, May 1901-September 1902 . 79 2.4 Motatau 5 or Tautoro: Setting up a Papatupu Block Committee, October-November 1902 ............ 85 2.5 Motatau 5 or Tautoro: The Komiti Kaumatua and the Papatupu Block Committee, November 1902-January 1903 ......................................................................................................................................... 88 2.6 Kuao’s armed opposition to the Papatupu Block Committee January-August 1903 ........................ 93 2.7 The Papatupu Block Committee investigation of Motatau 1, 2, 3 and 4, August 1903 ...................... 97 2.8 The Crown Response to Kuao’s Armed Threat, August-September 1903 ....................................... 100 2.9 The Tautoro Papatupu Block Committee hearings September-November 1903 ............................. 103 2.10 The Maori Land Council rejects the Papatupu Block Committee reports and investigates Motatau 2, November 1903 ......................................................................................................................................... 105 3 2.11 Summing up the Motatau 2 claims for the Maori Land Council, November 1903 ........................ 114 2.12 The Maori Land Council judgment on Motatau 2, December 1903 ................................................ 115 2.13 The Maori Land Council hearing for Motatau 1, November-December 1903 ............................... 116 2.14 The Maori Land Council hearing for Motatau 3, December 1903 .................................................. 118 2.15 The Maori Land Council hearing for Motatau 4, December 1903 .................................................. 120 2.16 The Motatau customary owners’ reactions to the Maori Land Council decisions ......................... 124 2.17 Conclusion- The Papatupu Block Committee and Maori Land Council title investigations into Motatau 1-5, September 1902 - December 1903. ....................................................................................... 124 CHAPTER 3: THE APPEAL AND TITLE JUDGMENT PROCESSES 1904-1910 .........................130 3.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 130 3.2 Changes of legislation and personnel: the Tokerau District Maori Land Council and Board, 1904- 1906 ............................................................................................................................................................... 130 3.3 Appeal cases for the Motatau blocks 1-4, August-September 1905 ................................................... 132 3.4 Motatau 5: The Maori Land Council examines the Papatupu Block Committee Report, November 1905 ............................................................................................................................................................... 139 3.5 Motatau 1: The Native Land Court title investigation, February 1906 ............................................ 145 3.6 Motatau 3: The Native Land Court hearing for title investigation, March 1906 ............................. 149 3.7 Motatau 4: The Native Land Court title investigation, March 1906 ................................................. 152 3.8 Motatau 3 and 4: The Native Appellate Court cases, October-November 1907 ............................... 153 3.9 The appeals against the Maori Land Council decision on Motatau 5, November 1907 ................... 156 3.10 Motatau 5: The Native Land Court title investigation, April-May 1909 ........................................ 160 3.11 Motatau 5: The Appeal Case of September 1910 .............................................................................. 164 3.12 The Motatau block title determination 1902-1910: A summary ...................................................... 165 3.12.1 The title determination process for Motatau 1, 2, 3 and 4, 1902-1909 .......................................... 166 3.12.2 The title determination process for Motatau 5, 1902-1910 ............................................................ 173 3.13 Conclusion ............................................................................................................................................ 180 CHAPTER 4: THE VESTING OF MOTATAU 2 IN THE TOKERAU DISTRICT MAORI LAND BOARD, 1906-1931 ................................................................................................................183 4.1 Introduction: The Motatau blocks and vesting of Motatau 2 ............................................................ 183 4.2 Vesting and leasing land under the Maori Land Settlement Act 1905 .............................................. 183 4.3 The lead-up to vesting Motatau 2 1902-1906 ....................................................................................... 185 4.4 Protests, subdivisions and Papakainga lands 1907-1908 .................................................................... 190 4.5 Timber and other resource issues 1906-1916 ....................................................................................... 198 4.6 Vesting Motatau 2: the impact on other Motatau blocks 1907-1911 ................................................. 203 4.7 Leasing land and the owners’ rights of tenure 1911-1914 .................................................................. 207 4.8 The Treasury loan 1914 ......................................................................................................................... 209 4.9 The Motatau 2 partitions and title grants: 1916-1920 ........................................................................ 210 4.10 The land owners and the Treasury loan debt 1920-1922 .................................................................. 214 4 4.11 The Chief Judge’s Investigation of 1922 ............................................................................................ 215 4.12 The recommendations of the Jones Inquiry ...................................................................................... 225 4.13
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