Ngati Pahauwera Supplementary Affidavit on behalf of Trustees Exhibits B to H [pdf, 15 MB]
...values cannot be isolated from their ecological and historic contexts. • Assume affection and knowledge of all places in New Zealand. Remember there are no empty or untouched; no ‘wild’ places in New Zealand. • Knowledge and kawa are not universal - they are localised and specific. (Don’t assume the same systems work everywhere). • Even when the signs of a place have gone there is still a covenant between the place and its kaitiaki. • There are no such things as “Maori A...