Waitangi Tribunal theme Q - Inland waterways - lakes [pdf, 2.3 MB]
...abutting lakes has not been recognised by statute, nor is it supported by any domestic case law. However, in the case of Southern Centre of Theosophy Incorporated v South Australia, the existence of state legislation requiring that waterfront reserves be designated when lands with water boundaries are subdivided or developed, was considered by the court to be relevant to the question of who owned the lake in question. But rather than lakes to which such reserves abutted being owned by the Crown...