Ihe - Tarewa East 1A (2008) 326 Rotorua MB 45 (326 ROT 45) [pdf, 206 KB]
...produces better prices, while often made, is no reason to change status. That would be the case on every proposal to alienate Maori land. If price \l,'ere a valid argument, the effect would be to remove the interest of the wider kin group so carefully protected in the Act in the ordinary run of cases. In any event, as we have said, there was no hard evidence on the question in the COUli below; [25] Similarly the fact that the appellant is the sole owner of the block cannot be a...