Nga Runanga EiC M Bartlett Rights and interests Amended tracked 17 Feb 2021 [PDF, 905 KB]
...in the early 1880s are close to 140 years old. As Ms McIntyre’s evidence illustrates, these processes have often involved water being taken and used for very different purposes than it was originally granted for, and such rights have been transformed and perpetuated by various statutes with little (if any) consideration of tangata whenua interests. Some submitters have described their deemed permits as a ‘longstanding right’ to water, I consider however that by telling the Ng...