Waitangi Tribunal - Ngāpuhi Mandate Inquiry report [pdf, 905 KB]
...and, as a consequence, would ‘exacerbate the poverty within Ngāpuhi’ 36 The other side of the debate insists that the vessel they are being told to board is unseaworthy and incapable of carrying them to a place where their grievances can be laid to rest and goodwill restored They say their ancestors never willingly ceded sovereignty to the Crown and that they themselves have never given any authority to the Tūhoronuku IMA to speak on their behalf in their view it is unthinkable th...